Philosophy audiobooks

Aptavani-10 (P) - Gujarati Audio Book

By: Dada Bhagwan

Narrated by: Dada Bhagwan

Length: 19 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Aptavani 10 (P) has Param Pujya Dadashri's spiritual discourses on the description and properties of Antaskaran- i.e mann-buddhi-chitt-ahankar (mind-intellect-vision-ego) all four put together. What is it made of? How does it develop? What is the form of Antaskaran in animals, deities, humans, children, etc. Before realization of the Self... Read more

Aptavani-10 (U) - Gujarati Audio Book

By: Dada Bhagwan

Narrated by: Dada Bhagwan

Length: 23 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Aptavani 10 (U) has Param Pujya Dadashri's spiritual discourses on the description and properties of Antaskaran- i.e Mann-Buddhi-Chitt-Ahankar (mind-intellect-vision-ego) all four put together. What is it made of? How does it develop? What is the form of Antaskaran in animals, deities, humans, children, etc. Before realization of the Self... Read more

Manav Dharma - Gujarati Audio Book

By: Dada Bhagwan

Narrated by: Dada Bhagwan

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Every human being is living a life, but how much humanity does he have? Birth, education, job, marriage, kids, family and at the end…death! Is this the standard cycle of life that has to be followed? What is the ultimate goal of such a life? Why do we take birth? What do we want? The human body that we have received... should do the duty of... Read more

Healing, Meditation And Sleeping: Achieve Deeper Levels of Stress Relief, Tranquility And Focus

By: Joshua Armentraut

Narrated by: Connor J. Falahee

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Deep Zen Gateway - Relaxing Soundscapes For Healing, Meditation And Sleeping: Achieve Deeper Levels of Stress Relief, Tranquility And Focus In conjunction with many dedicated and visionary people from all over the world, Joshua Armentraut has spent the past 20 years working to bring sound healing and sound therapy into mainstream awareness.... Read more

Night Vision

By: Mariana Alessandri

Narrated by: Gisela Chípe

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook narrated by Gisela Chípe shares a philosopher's personal meditation on how painful emotions can reveal truths about what it means to be truly human Under the light of ancient Western philosophies, our darker moods like grief, anguish, and depression can seem irrational. When viewed through the lens of modern psychology, they can... Read more

Discourses and Selected Writings

By: Epictetus

Narrated by: Richard Goulding

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

This Penguin Classic is performed by Richard Goulding, best known for Me Before You, The Iron Lady and The Windsors.

Epictetus, a Greek stoic and freed slave, ran a thriving philosophy school in Nicropolis in the early second century AD. His animated discussions were celebrated for their rhetorical wizardry and were... Read more

The Last Days of Socrates

By: Plato

Narrated by: Justin Avoth & Laurence Dobiesz

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

This Penguin Classic is performed by Justin Avoth and Laurence Dobiesz. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Christopher Rowe read by Justin Avoth.

'Consider just this, and give your minds to this alone: whether or not what I say is just'

Plato's account of Socrates' trial and death (399 BC) is a... Read more

The Communist Manifesto

By: Friedrich Engels & Karl Marx

Narrated by: Arinze Kene

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

This Penguin Classic is performed by Arinzé Kene, writer and performer of Olivier Award nominated Misty, and also known for his roles in Youngers, Informer and Eastenders. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Gareth Stedman Jones.


The Communist Manifesto (1848), Marx and Engels's revolutionary summons... Read more

Letters from a Stoic

By: Seneca

Narrated by: Julian Glover

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

This Penguin Classic is performed by Julian Glover, Olivier Award winning actor, also known for his roles in Game of Thrones and Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Robin Campbell.


A philosophy that saw self-possession as the key to an existence lived 'in... Read more

Meditations

By: Marcus Aurelius

Narrated by: Richard Armitage

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

This Penguin Classic is performed by Richard Armitage, star of Peter Jackson'sThe Hobbit trilogy and also known for his roles in Ocean's 8 and Spooks. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Diskin Clay.

Originally written only for his personal consumption, Marcus Aurelius's Meditations has become a key... Read more

The Prince

By: Niccolo Machiavelli

Narrated by: Simon Callow

Length: 3 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

This Penguin Classic is performed by Simon Callow, actor and director, known for his roles in Four Weddings and a Funeral, Shakespeare in Love, and the BBC adaptation of A Christmas Carol.


As a diplomat in turbulent fifteenth-century Florence, Niccolò Machiavelli knew how quickly political fortunes could rise and fall.... Read more

Republic

By: Plato

Narrated by: Jim Barclay

Length: 16 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

This Penguin Classic is performed by Jim Barclay, best known for their roles in The Young Ones and Jeeves and Wooster. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Christopher Rowe, also read by Jim Barclay.

'We set about founding the best city we could, because we could be confident that if it was good we... Read more

Of The Social Contract and Other Political Writings

By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Narrated by: Heather Long, John Kapansa & Roy McMillan

Length: 13 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

'Man was born free, and everywhere he is in chains.'

These are the famous opening words of a treatise that has stirred vigorous debate ever since its first publication in 1762. Rejecting the view that anyone has a natural right to wield authority over others, Rousseau argues instead for a pact, or 'social contract', that... Read more

The Frontiers of Knowledge

By: A. C. Grayling

Narrated by: Richard Goulding

Length: 13 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

In very recent times humanity has learnt a vast amount about the universe, the past, and itself. But through our remarkable successes in acquiring knowledge we have learned how much we have yet to learn: the science we have, for example, addresses just 5% of the universe; pre-history is still being revealed, with... Read more

The Reith Lectures

By: Various

Narrated by: Grayson Perry, Hilary Mantel, Kwame Anthony App...

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Ten emblematic lectures by world-leading thinkers, specially selected by the series producer.

Since 1948, the BBC's iconic annual lecture series has provided a platform for brilliant, entertaining individuals to discuss and develop their ideas on radio. The topics range from art and science to history, culture, politics and more, and each Reith... Read more

In Our Time: 25 Key Figures in Ancient History

By: Melvyn Bragg

Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg & Various

Length: 18 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 25 major leaders, thinkers and writers of the classical world

'The best thing on Radio 4, possibly the best thing on the radio full stop'
The Spectator

In Our Time is one of BBC Radio's most successful and best-loved programmes, with a weekly listenership of over two million. Since 1998, it has 'transformed the... Read more

Beyond Good and Evil

By: Friedrich Nietzsche

Narrated by: Leighton Pugh

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

'One of the greatest books of a very great thinker' Michael Tanner

This Penguin Classic is performed by Leighton Pugh, known for his various roles at the National Theatre. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Michael Tanner.

Beyond Good and Evil confirmed Nietzsche's position as the towering European... Read more

Clear Bright Future

By: Paul Mason

Narrated by: Finlay Robertson

Length: 13 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Clear Bright Future by Paul Mason, read by Finlay Robertson.

Our world order is under pressure as never before. From new authoritarian regimes in the US, Turkey and Russia, to the imminent break-up of the European Union and a social media awash with intolerance, things look set to fall apart just as... Read more

Leviathan

By: Thomas Hobbes

Narrated by: Philip Stevens

Length: 25 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

This Penguin Classic is performed by Philip Stevens. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Christopher Brooke.

Thomas Hobbes lived through the Thirty Years War and Britain's civil wars, and the trauma of these events led to his great masterpiece of political thought. How could humankind rescue itself from... Read more

National Populism

By: Roger Eatwell & Matthew Goodwin

Narrated by: Matthew Goodwin

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of National Populism: The Revolt Against Liberal Democracy, A Pelican Book, written by Roger Eatwell and Matthew Goodwin and read by Matthew Goodwin.

A crucial new guide to one of the most urgent political phenomena of our time: the rise of national populism

Across the West, there is a rising tide of people... Read more

If You Should Fail

By: Joe Moran

Narrated by: Ned Porteous

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

Do you ever feel like a failure?

Enter widely acclaimed observer of daily life Professor Joe Moran, not to tell you that everything will be all right in the end, but to reassure you that failure is an occupational hazard of being human. It's the small print in life's terms and conditions.

Covering everything from... Read more

Finding Peace

By: Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche

Narrated by: Bert Seymour

Length: 3 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

In this hectic, modern world, the practice of meditation is the greatest way to find peace.

Originally written over thirteen years ago, the teachings in this book have transformed the lives of people across the world and, despite the passing of time, the advice has never been more pertinent. Having lived an... Read more

What Am I Doing with My Life?

By: Stephen Law

Narrated by: Anthony Howell

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

Life philosophy based on Google searches


Have I kissed too many people?
Am I a psychopath?
Should I be allowed to say whatever I want?

Millions of people ask Google all sorts of questions, everything from the big and small.

Responding to the biggest, existential questions asked online and using the wisdom of Plato, Kant,... Read more

A History of Ideas

By: Melvyn Bragg

Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg

Length: 11 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A major 60-part BBC radio series exploring the questions that have preoccupied philosophers through the ages, presented by Melvyn Bragg.

With his landmark series In Our Time, Melvyn Bragg introduced an audience of over 2 million to big ideas across the realms of science, religion, culture, history and philosophy. Now, in A History of Ideas, he... Read more