Philosophy audiobooks

The Book of Not Knowing

By: Peter Ralston

Narrated by: Keith O'Brien

Length: 19 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Eckhart Tolle—a guide to mastering self-awareness through direct experience rather than old presumptions or harmful thought patterns

Through decades of martial arts and meditation practice, Peter Ralston discovered a curious and paradoxical fact: that true awareness arises from a state of not-knowing. Even the most sincere... Read more

The Gift of Anger

By: Arun Gandhi

Narrated by: Arun Gandhi

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover ten vital and extraordinary life lessons from one of the most important and influential philosophers and peace activists of the twentieth century—Mahatma Gandhi—in this poignant and timely exploration of the true path from anger to peace, as recounted by Gandhi’s grandson, Arun Gandhi. In the current troubled climate, in our country and... Read more

Guide to Chip Heath's & et al Made to Stick by Instaread

By: Instaread

Narrated by: Sam Scholl

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Chip Heath’s & et al Made to Stick and NOT the original book.
Preview:
In Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die (2007), educators and brothers Chip Heath and Dan Heath offer a guide for sharing ideas that stick with listeners. As a framework for their advice, they offer the acronym SUCCES,... Read more

The Genius of Being

By: Peter Ralston

Narrated by: Toby Sheets

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Peter Ralston’s exceptionally lucid trilogy on the nature of human consciousness culminates here. In The Genius of Being Peter Ralston presents an audiobook of deep contemplations on the unseen elements that create our world. The first volume, The Book of Not Knowing, garnered much praise as a comprehensive exploration of the depths of self and... Read more

Brain Training with the Buddha

By: Eric Harrison

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The essential guide to training your brain for mindfulness—modern, science-based, and with no Buddhism required.

Publisher’s note: Brain Training with the Buddha was previously published in hardcover as The Foundations of Mindfulness.

Lifelong meditation teacher Eric Harrison intimately understands the benefits of mindfulness, from improved focus... Read more

Learning to Live with Uncertainty

By: Estelle Frankel

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Frankel recommends that we not make a habit of focusing on the obstacles on our life paths. Rather, we should consider the open spaces before us as our guides. She further suggests that we designate some time each month to take a “wordfast” and points out that “Silence is a precious commodity and if we don’t create space for ourselves we’re... Read more

Esto es agua

By: David Foster Wallace

Narrated by: Carlos Manuel Vesga

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Escucha ahora este discurso que vio la luz en 2005 y ha sido debatido ampliamente tras la muerte del autor. Transido con su humor único, su intelecto preciso y su filosofía práctica, Esto es agua muestra los retos de la vida diaria, un legado conciso de uno de los grandes pensadores de nuestro tiempo. Había una vez dos peces jóvenes que iban... Read more

This Is an Uprising

By: Mark Engler & Paul Engler

Narrated by: Graham Halstead

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Strategic nonviolent action has reasserted itself as a potent force in shaping public debate and forcing political change. Whether it is an explosive surge of protest calling for racial justice in the United States or a demand for democratic reform in Hong Kong or Mexico, when mass movements erupt onto our television screens, the media portrays... Read more

60 MINUTES TO MASTER BUDDHISM

By: Michael Chaskalson

Narrated by: Edward Killingback

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A Buddhist life is lived with peace, joy and contentment: each day can be a step along the path to true enlightenment. To live by these values every day takes patience, skill and knowledge, but it is hugely rewarding. This book can show you how to begin to do so – in just 20 minutes. Principles of Buddhism covers the history... Read more

Behaving Badly

By: Eden Collinsworth

Narrated by: Joy Nash

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

What is the relevance of morality today? Eden Collinsworth enlists the famous, the infamous, and the heretofore unheard-of to unravel how we make moral choices in an increasingly complex—and ethically flexible—age.

To call these unsettling times is an understatement: our political leaders are less and less respectable; in the realm of business,... Read more

Notes on Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince by Instaread

By: Instaread

Narrated by: Dwight Equitz

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince and NOT the original book.
Preview:
The Prince (1532) is a guide to success in statecraft for heads of state, whom author Niccolò Machiavelli refers to as “princes” throughout the text. Machiavelli argues that princes should cultivate the appearance of virtue, but that they... Read more

Chosen by God

By: R.C. Sproul

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

With nearly 200,000 copies sold in its 25 years, Chosen by God by Dr. R. C. Sproul is a contemporary classic on predestination, a doctrine that isn't just for Calvinists, says Sproul. It is a doctrine for all biblical Christians. In this updated and expanded edition of Chosen by God, Sproul shows that the doctrine of predestination doesn't... Read more

The Shipwrecked Mind

By: Mark Lilla

Narrated by: Michael Kramer

Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

We don't understand the reactionary mind. As a result, argues Mark Lilla in this timely book, the ideas and passions that shape today's political dramas are unintelligible to us.



The reactionary is anything but a conservative. He is as radical and modern a figure as the revolutionary, someone shipwrecked in the rapidly changing present, and... Read more

The Five Invitations

By: Frank Ostaseski

Narrated by: Frank Ostaseski

Length: 12 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The cofounder of the Zen Hospice Project and pioneer behind the compassionate care movement shares an inspiring exploration of the lessons dying has to offer about living a fulfilling life.

Death is not waiting for us at the end of a long road. Death is always with us, in the marrow of every passing moment. She is the secret teacher hiding in... Read more

The Family Gene

By: Joselin Linder

Narrated by: Khristine Hvam

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

When Joselin Linder was in her twenties, her legs started to swell. She thought little of it, until her health problems started to compound in ways that baffled her doctors. Diagnosed with extreme liver blockage and dangerous levels of lymph fluid, Joselin turned to the most similar case she could think of—her father’s.Joselin compared the... Read more

Metaphysics

By: Aristotle

Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart

Length: 14 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Aristotle's Metaphysics was the first major study of the subject of metaphysics - in other words, an inquiry into 'first philosophy', or 'wisdom'. It differs from Physics, which is concerned with the natural world: things which are subject to the laws of nature, things that move and change, are measurable. In Metaphysics, the study falls on... Read more

The Little Things

By: Andy Andrews

Narrated by: Andy Andrews

Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Wall Street Journal BestsellerHave you ever wondered why we spend so much time and energy thinking about the big challenges in our lives when all the evidence proves it’s actually the little things that change everything?  That’s right…  Absolutely everything.Little Things embodies Andy’s own approach to life and work, detailing for the first... Read more

Hygge – Die Kunst, das Leben zu geniessen

By: Katja Schütz

Narrated by: Carmen Molinar

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Je stressiger unser Alltag ist, desto stärker ist unser Wunsch nach Rückzug und Erholung. Die dänische Glücksphilosophie "Hygge" beschreibt einen neuen Weg für mehr Wohlfühlen im 21. Jahrhundert. Die Dänen zählen zu den glücklichsten Menschen weltweit. Hygge ist nicht individualistisch, sondern widmet sich der Sehnsucht nach Zusammengehörigkeit,... Read more

The Lost Love

By: Michael Lanfield

Narrated by: Michael Lanfield

Length: 3 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

At the core of our being, lies the heart. The heart is what contains human emotion, including love and compassion. Though humanity wants world peace, we can’t seem to live peacefully amongst one another. Religious institutions, schools and educational systems, military and governments have done little to nothing to end the violence. Love is the... Read more

Rethink

By: Steven Poole

Narrated by: Simon Mattacks

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliant and groundbreaking argument that innovation and progress are often achieved by revisiting and retooling ideas from the past rather than starting from scratch—from The Guardian columnist and contributor to The Atlantic.Innovation is not always as innovative as it may seem. This is the story of how old ideas that were mocked or ignored... Read more

From Bacteria to Bach and Back

By: Daniel C. Dennett

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 15 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

What is human consciousness and how is it possible? This question fascinates thinking people from poets and painters to physicists, psychologists, and philosophers. From Bacteria to Bach and Back is Daniel C. Dennett's brilliant answer, extending perspectives from his earlier work in surprising directions, exploring the deep interactions of... Read more

The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down

By: Haemin Sunim

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 2 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

“Is it the world that’s busy, or is it my mind?”The world moves fast, but that doesn’t mean we have to. In this bestselling mindfulness guide—it has sold more than three million copies in Korea, where it was a #1 bestseller for forty-one weeks and received multiple Best Book of the Year awards—Haemin Sunim (which means “spontaneous wisdom”), a... Read more

The Ruler's Guide

By: Chinghua Tang

Narrated by: Raymond J. Lee

Length: 3 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In the classic tradition of Sun Tzu’s The Art of War, here for the first time in English is the timeless wisdom of China’s greatest emperor Tang Taizong (598–649 AD), which is still being studied more than 1,300 years later as an invaluable guide to leading and managing.

Tang Taizong is arguably the greatest Emperor in Chinese history. In Asia,... Read more

The World as Will And Idea

By: Arthur Schopenhauer

Narrated by: Leighton Pugh

Length: 20 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Schopenhauer was just 30 when his magnum opus, Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung, a work of considerable learning and innovation of thought, first appeared in 1818.

Much to his chagrin and puzzlement (so convinced was he of its merits), it didn't have an immediate effect on European philosophy, views and culture. It was only decades later that... Read more