Philosophy audiobooks

Post-Truth

By: Lee McIntyre

Narrated by: Matthew Josdal

Length: 4 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

What, exactly, is post-truth? Is it wishful thinking, political spin, mass delusion, bold-faced lying? McIntyre analyzes recent examples—claims about inauguration crowd size, crime statistics, and the popular vote—and finds that post-truth is an assertion of ideological supremacy by which its practitioners try to compel someone to believe... Read more

Critique of Practical Reason

By: Immanuel Kant

Narrated by: Michael Lunts

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The Critique of Practical Reason was published in 1788, seven years after Immanuel Kant's major work, Critique of Pure Reason.

In it, Kant sets out his moral philosophy - and it proved a seminal text in the history of the subject. He argues that the summum bonum (the highest good) of life is that rather than just pursuing happiness, people... Read more

The Existentialist's Survival Guide

By: Gordon Marino

Narrated by: Joe Knezevich

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Existentialism offers enduring lessons and insight on how to understand ourselves and improve our lives.Your existence is not the result of a pre-determined set of events, it’s the direct result of your thinking and your actions, and therefore, according to Soren Kierkegaard, Frederick Nietzsche, Albert Camus, and other Existentialist... Read more

The People vs. Democracy

By: Yascha Mounk

Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

“We can no longer assume that liberal democracy is the wave of the future… This splendid book is an invaluable contribution to the debate about what ails democracy, and what can be done about it.” ―Michael J. Sandel, author of Justice“Everyone worried about the state of contemporary politics should read this book.” ―Anne-Marie Slaughter,... Read more

Assume the Worst

By: Carl Hiaasen

Narrated by: Carl Hiaasen

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: No

This is Oh, the Places You'll Never Go--the ultimate hilarious, cynical, but absolutely realistic view of a college graduate's future. And what he or she can or can't do about it.

"This commencement address will never be given, because graduation speakers are supposed to offer encouragement and inspiration. That's not what you need. You need a... Read more

Is God a Mathematician?

By: Mario Livio

Narrated by: Tom Parks

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author and astrophysicist Mario Livio examines the lives and theories of history’s greatest mathematicians to ask how—if mathematics is an abstract construction of the human mind—it can so perfectly explain the physical world.Nobel Laureate Eugene Wigner once wondered about “the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics” in the... Read more

This is Tai Chi: 50 Essential Questions and Answers

By: Paul Read

Narrated by: Paul Read

Length: 1 hour 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Everything you need to know about Tai Chi, including how to find a class...what happens in a class...how long it takes to learn...the difference between the styles and a unique history of the art in China and its travels to the West. See below for a complete list of the 50 Questions that the book answers. This fascinating audio version of the... Read more

The Way of Leadership

By: author

Narrated by: David Warrilow & Michael O'Keefe

Length: 3 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Proven to be invaluable resources for anyone in a position of power, here are three of China's greatest classical works on leadership, warriorship, and strategy:

The Art of War: This timeless guide is perhaps the most influential book of strategy in the world today. Zen Lessons: These core teachings of China's greatest Zen masters cover... Read more

The Art of War

By: Sun Tzu & Thomas Cleary

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 1 hour 54 minutes

Abridged: No

For more than 2,000 years, Sun Tzu's The Art of War has provided leaders with essential advice on battlefield tactics, managing troops and terrain, and employing cunning and deception. An elemental part of Chinese culture, it has also become a touchstone for the Western struggle for survival and success, whether in battle, in business or in... Read more

La hoja del olmo no es perfecta

By: Javier López Facal

Narrated by: David Morales

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

La Tierra no es perfectamente redonda, pero la circunferencia creada por los hombres sí lo es. Lo malo es que cuando intentaban medir esa circunferencia inventada con su diámetro, salía un número irracional, un número desconcertante, el número pi. Otros conceptos ideales creados también por los hombres, como la simetría, la ortodoxia, la... Read more

Die Kunst, die Eltern zu enttäuschen

By: Michael Bordt SJ

Narrated by: Michael Bordt SJ

Length: 1 hour 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Man kann es nicht allen recht machen – vor allem seinen Eltern nicht! Nur wer bereit ist, andere zu enttäuschen, wird sein eigenes Leben finden.  Manchmal müssen wir andere Menschen enttäuschen, weil ihre Vorstellungen von unserem Leben einfach nicht zu uns passen - bei aller Liebe nicht. Wie enttäuscht man Erwartungen, um selbstbestimmt leben... Read more

Surviving the Future

By: David Fleming & Shaun Chamberlin

Narrated by: Shaun Chamberlin

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Surviving the Future is a story drawn from the fertile ground of the late David Fleming’s extraordinary Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It. That hardback consists of four hundred and four interlinked dictionary entries, inviting readers to choose their own path through its radical vision. Recognizing that Lean Logic’s... Read more

Becoming Dallas Willard

By: Gary W. Moon

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Dallas Willard was a personal mentor and inspiration to hundreds of pastors, philosophers, and average churchgoers. His presence and ideas rippled through the lives of many prominent leaders and authors, such as John Ortberg, Richard Foster, James Bryan Smith, Paula Huston, and J. P. Moreland. As a result of these relationships and the books he... Read more

Under the Sign of Saturn

By: Susan Sontag

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Sontag’s most important critical writings from 1972 to 1980 are collected in Under the Sign of Saturn. One of America’s leading essayists, Sontag’s writings are commentaries on the relation between moral and aesthetic ideas, discussing the works of Antonin Artaud, Leni Riefenstahl, Elias Canetti, Walter Benjamin, and others. The collection... Read more

The Craftsman

By: Richard Sennett

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The Craftsman explores the relation between the hand and the head. Richard Sennett argues that working with physical things stimulates people to think.



Craftsmanship, says Sennett, names the basic human impulse to do a job well for its own sake, and good craftsmanship involves developing skills and focusing on the work rather than ourselves. The... Read more

Humankind

By: Timothy Morton

Narrated by: Liam Gerrard

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A radical call for solidarity between humans and nonhumans



What is it that makes humans human? As science and technology challenge the boundaries between life and nonlife, between organic and inorganic, this ancient question is more timely than ever. Acclaimed object-oriented philosopher Timothy Morton invites us to consider this philosophical... Read more

Determined to Believe?

By: John C. Lennox

Narrated by: Paul Gregory

Length: 13 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A serious biblical and philosophical investigation of theological determinism: the idea that everything that happens has already been decided by God, including who will and won’t be saved.This audiobook is for those who are interested in, or troubled by, questions about God's sovereignty and human freedom and responsibility. Christian apologist... Read more

Essentials of Buddhist Philosophy with Bee Scherer

By: Bee Scherer

Narrated by: Bee Scherer

Length: 3 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

This course introduces key concepts of Indian Buddhist thought. Over 5 lectures Bee explains the fundamental themes and problems of Buddhist Philosophy; from the early Buddhist teachings on ‘suffering’, ‘karma’ and ‘No-Self’, to the later scholasticism and the famous schools of thought around ‘emptiness’ and ‘mind-only’. Each chapter introduces... Read more

The F-Word

By: Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Buddhist teacher Namgyel points out that “everything leans.” She frames this statement with the reminder, “[W]e live in a world where ‘it all depends’ and everything is influencing everything else. We might think we know something at one moment but everything is always interrupting and influencing and so it’s always changing. Life, as we know... Read more

How to Die

By: Seneca

Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan

Length: 2 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

"It takes an entire lifetime to learn how to die," wrote the Roman Stoic philosopher Seneca (c. 4 BC–65 AD). He counseled readers to "study death always," and took his own advice, returning to the subject again and again in all his writings, yet he never treated it in a complete work. How to Die gathers in one volume, for the first time,... Read more

Healing Love through the Tao

By: Mantak Chia

Narrated by: Donna Postel

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

For thousands of years the sexual principles and techniques presented here were taught by Taoist masters in secret only to a small number of people (sworn to silence), in the royal courts and esoteric circles of China. This is the first book to make this ancient knowledge available to the West.



The foundation of healing love is the cultivation,... Read more

Radical Wholeness

By: Philip Shepherd

Narrated by: Philip Shepherd

Length: 11 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

There are qualities we all yearn to experience in our lives—peace, simplicity, grace, connection, clarity. Yet these qualities evade us because each of them arises from an experience of wholeness, and we live in a culture that enforces divisions within each of us. In Radical Wholeness, Philip Shepherd shows the countless ways in which we are... Read more

After Virtue, Third Edition

By: Alasdair MacIntyre

Narrated by: Derek Perkins

Length: 14 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

When After Virtue first appeared in 1981, it was recognized as a significant and potentially controversial critique of contemporary moral philosophy. Since that time, the book has been translated into more than fifteen foreign languages and has sold over one hundred thousand copies. Now, twenty-five years later, the University of Notre Dame... Read more

Future Predictions by an Engineer and Seer

By: Martin K. Ettington

Narrated by: Martin K. Ettington

Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

This book is about predictions of the Future from both projections of existing trends and possible major paradigm changes.On Making Predictions of the Future: It is possible to make pretty good future predictions by taking into account three things-- 1) Technological and Sociological Trends 2) Potential Paradigm changes 3) IntuitionIn this book... Read more