Philosophy audiobooks

On Sense and the Sensible

By: Aristotle

Narrated by: Suzi Woods

Length: 1 hour 43 minutes

Abridged: No

This Aristotelian treatise makes up part of the philosopher’s Parva Naturalia, which is Latin for “short treatises on nature.” In this text, he presents his ideas about the human senses. He connects each sense to an element—sight to water, touch to earth, etc. While Aristotle’s view of the senses is scientifically inaccurate in many ways, this... Read more

The Meaning of Happiness

By: Alan Watts

Narrated by: Kern Schmidt

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Deep down, most people think that happiness comes from having or doing something. Here, in Alan Watts’s groundbreaking third book (originally published in 1940), he offers a more challenging thesis: authentic happiness comes from embracing life as a whole in all its contradictions and paradoxes, an attitude that Watts calls the “way of... Read more

Avant je criais fort

By: Jérémie McEwen

Narrated by: Jérémie McEwen

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Jérémie est professeur de philosophie au Collège Montmorency, rappeur du duo La Brigade des Moeurs, et chroniqueur philo à Radio-Canada (C’est fou, On dira ce qu’on voudra…). Il a aussi écrit ponctuellement pour La Presse, dans le magazine Nouveau Projet ou sur le site Voir.ca. Jérémie en a marre d’entendre, partout dans les médias, du monde... Read more

Plato

By: Ferdinand Jives

Narrated by: Alasdair Cunningham

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Hear about the man on which a great portion of Western philosophy itself is based. He founded one of the first organized academies in Western civilization. His standings on life and perceptions have been quoted and referred to worldwide for centuries, as well as his main student, Aristotle. He wrote about metaphysics, epistemology, and... Read more

Theodicy

By: Laurie Calhoun

Narrated by: Laurie Calhoun

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

What happened to philosophy in the twentieth century? Laurie Calhoun has an answer to this question, but you are probably not going to like it—certainly not if you are comfortably ensconced in academia. That would make you one of “the experts” taken to task and whose “expertise” is unmasked in Theodicy. If, on the other hand, you left philosophy... Read more

101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think

By: Brianna Wiest

Narrated by: Abby Craden

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Over the past few years, Brianna Wiest has gained renown for her deeply moving, philosophical writing. This new compilation of her published work features pieces on why you should pursue purpose over passion, embrace negative thinking, see the wisdom in daily routine, and become aware of the cognitive biases that are creating the way you see... Read more

Exact Thinking in Demented Times

By: Karl Sigmund

Narrated by: Nigel Patterson

Length: 13 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A dazzling group biography of the early twentieth-century thinkers who transformed the way the world thought about math and science



Inspired by Albert Einstein's theory of relativity and Bertrand Russell and David Hilbert's pursuit of the fundamental rules of mathematics, some of the most brilliant minds of the generation came together in... Read more

Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Narrated by: Phil Paonessa

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1834, Ralph Waldo Emerson, formerly a Unitarian minister, began a new career as a public lecturer. Many of those lectures formed the source material for his essays. Nature (1836), his first published work, contained the essence of his transcendental philosophy, which involved viewing the world of natural phenomena as a symbol of the inner... Read more

Loving Without Limits

By: Guy Finley

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Finley explores deescalating painful disagreements and fights in our relationships and gives us tools to transform anger and blame into healthy and fulfilling communication. He shows us a way to stop old, negative patterns in their tracks and leads us into a landscape in which we can deepen the loving bond between ourselves and our partners. Read more

Talking Across the Divide

By: Justin Lee

Narrated by: Justin Lee

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A guide to learning how to communicate with people who have diametrically opposed opinions from you, how to empathize with them, and how to (possibly) change their minds

America is more polarized than ever. Whether the issue is Donald Trump, healthcare, abortion, gun control, breastfeeding, or even DC vs Marvel, it feels like you can't voice an... Read more

Thomas Aquinas

By: Ferdinand Jives

Narrated by: Alasdair Cunningham

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A Catholic who put things into perspective when philosophical ideas were at an all-time lowItalian philosopher, Thomas Aquinas, had a major impact on Christian theology, the rise of Scholasticism, and the Roman Catholic Church. His Summa Theologicaand other works are renowned, and they emphasize the five pieces of evidences that God exists. To... Read more

The Layman's Guide To Quantum Reality

By: JD Lovil

Narrated by: Cathi Colas

Length: 3 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Have you always wanted to understand Quantum Theory, but was afraid of the math?Relax. I have written this book so that you can understand the theory without all the hard to understand equations and science speak.Once you understand quantum mechanics, you can use that knowledge to take control of your life.

This book has three sections.It will... Read more

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

By: John Locke

Narrated by: Leighton Pugh

Length: 30 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

John Locke and his works - particularly An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - are regularly and rightly presented as foundations for the Age of Enlightenment. His primary epistemological message - that the mind at birth is a blank sheet waiting to be filled by the experiences of the senses - complemented his primary political message: that... Read more

Balancing Our Chakra System For Emotional And Spiritual Healing

By: Anodea Judith, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Anodea Judith substitutes the word “charge” for energy. “Charge” as it relates to our life-force energy can be blocked or be freely flowing. It also relates to our chakra system, which comprises the organizational centers in the body. Here she takes us through the seven chakra centers and how we can work more effectively with them. Read more

Elements of the Philosophy of Right

By: Georg Wilhelm Hegel

Narrated by: Jonathan Booth

Length: 14 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Elements of The Philosophy of Right, a key work in the output of Georg Wilhelm Hegel (1770-1831), appeared in 1820 - and was arguably his last major publication. His intention was to state his views on the philosophy of law, political and social theory and ethics. Appearing as it did in a crucial time for the Prussian state - still affected by... Read more

Formative Early Writings by Karl Marx

By: Karl Marx

Narrated by: Derek Le Page

Length: 12 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Though Karl Marx is best known for Capital and The Communist Manifesto, his revolutionary thoughts and ideas had developed over decades spent in study, discussion and association with a variety of organisations throughout Europe and the US, intent on challenging the establishment order.

These six very different texts show how Marx's ideas... Read more

The Original Buddhist Psychology

By: Beth Jacobs, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Margo Trueblood

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Drawing on decades of experience, a psychotherapist and Zen practitioner makes the Abhidharma—the framework of Buddhist psychology—accessible to a general audience for the first time.

The Abhidharma, one of the 3 major text collections of the original Buddhist canon, explores the critical juncture of Buddhist thought and the therapeutic aspects... Read more

A Walk in the Wood

By: Nancy Parent & Dr. Joseph Parent

Narrated by: Joseph Parent

Length: 2 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The benefits of mindfulness are well recognized: greater peace of mind, less stress, and the opportunity to work through and transform thoughts, memories, and worries. It also fosters equanimity, helping us accept the changes and challenges life brings.



In our frantic world, who better to guide listeners through this transformative practice than... Read more

Critique of Judgement

By: Immanuel Kant

Narrated by: Michael Lunts

Length: 15 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Kant's Critique of Judgement is the third and final part of his series of Critiques, which began with Critique of Pure Reason and continued with Critique of Practical Reason.

Critique of Judgement was published in 1790 and is divided into two parts, the Critique of Aesthetic Judgement and the Critique of Teleological Judgement.

Our ‘judgements... Read more

The Tao Made Easy

By: Alan Cohen

Narrated by: Alan Cohen

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

May you live during interesting times: so goes an ancient Chinese blessing"or some say curse. That wish has come true for us. Now what? In this radically illuminating book, Alan Cohen delves into one of the world's most venerated wisdom texts for answers and brings the lofty and enigmatic concepts of the Tao Te Ching down to earth in fresh,... Read more

I Am a Strange Loop

By: Douglas R Hofstadter

Narrated by: Greg Baglia

Length: 16 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

One of our greatest philosophers and scientists of the mind asks, where does the self come from -- and how our selves can exist in the minds of others. Can thought arise out of matter? Can self, soul, consciousness, "I" arise out of mere matter? If it cannot, then how can you or I be here? I Am a Strange Loop argues that the key to... Read more

The Monarchy of Fear

By: Martha C. Nussbaum

Narrated by: Amanda Carlin

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of the world’s most celebrated moral philosophers comes a thorough examination of the current political crisis and recommendations for how to mend our divided country.

For decades Martha C. Nussbaum has been an acclaimed scholar and humanist, earning dozens of honors for her books and essays. In The Monarchy of Fear she turns her... Read more

A Brief History of Everything

By: Ken Wilber

Narrated by: Steve Grad & Willow Pearson

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A Brief History of Everything is an altogether friendly and accessible account of men and women's place in a universe of sex, soul, and spirit, written by an author of whom New York Times reporter Tony Schwartz says: "No one has described the path to wisdom better than Ken Wilber."

Wilber examines the course of evolution as the unfolding... Read more

The Rules of Victory

By: James Gimian & Barry Boyce

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Sun Tzu's Art of War is widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest tools for understanding and resolving conflict ever. But how do you translate its military insights into practical tactics you can use in the corporate boardroom, the PTA meeting, or the family reunion? James Gimian and Barry Boyce take the principles born on ancient Chinese... Read more