Adictos a la Filosofía
Inducted in 2026
Why it is in the collection
There is a decisive difference between simplifying an idea and simplifying the road to it. Enric does the second. His titles are light and his humour is unguarded, but when he enters the Nicomachean Ethics or Kant's two Critiques he does not trim the concept to make it fit: he builds the path so the listener can arrive at it whole.
His sense of service persuades us too. A large part of the channel is devoted to students with a grade at stake — an audience usually served hurried, low-quality material. Here they get the opposite: complete explanations with the distinctions intact, made by someone whose teaching craft is evident.
And we value his hospitality. Using anime or cinema as a doorway is not a concession; it is a recognition that philosophical questions live where people live. The channel invites without condescension, takes up dividing questions — religion among them — without mocking those who think otherwise, and leaves the viewer better equipped to read on their own. That is the best outcome a philosophy channel can have.
About this channel
Enric, the teacher behind Adictos a la Filosofía, set himself something easy to state and hard to do: teach philosophy rigorously without letting it turn dry. The channel travels through the history of thought by way of its sources ( Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Kant, Nietzsche, Stuart Mill, Nussbaum ) and does so by reading the works rather than summarising textbook labels. Some videos are devoted to a single book, and occasionally to a single book within a work, as in the successive readings of the Nicomachean Ethics, where the questions of happiness and virtue unfold slowly with the text in view.
Two further strands run alongside that one. The first is scholastic and practical: series built around the key authors of the Spanish upper-secondary curriculum and its university entrance exams, designed so that a student arrives at the exam understanding rather than memorising. The second gives the channel its character: philosophy read through anime, cinema and popular culture. Questions of ambition and fate arise by way of Berserk; the nature of evil by way of Monster; there is also aesthetics, logic, classical paradoxes, and discussion of artificial intelligence and of arguments concerning the existence of God.
The tone is playful, with deliberately provocative titles and a good deal of humour, but the content is not cheapened: concepts are explained whole and distinctions are kept intact. Newcomers will find a welcoming entrance to academic philosophy and, if they keep pulling the thread, a staircase upward: from a video about a series to an introduction to an author, and from there to a commented reading of a complete work. It serves the student who needs to pass, the adult who left philosophy behind at school and wants to return, and anyone who simply enjoys watching an ancient idea illuminate a contemporary story.