Philosophy audiobooks

Zadig

By: Voltaire

Narrated by: Anne-Sophie Robin

Length: 2 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Zadig ou la Destinée est le conte philosophique majeur de Voltaire. C'est à la fois un concentré d'humour, une critique au vitriol de la société du XVIIIe, et une réflexion cruciale sur ce que cela signifie d'être heureux. Le jeune Zadig a en effet tout pour l'être : il est beau, riche et vertueux, et s'apprête à épouser la plus belle de... Read more

100 citations de Platon

By: Platon

Narrated by: Patrick Martinez Bournat

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

En mettant en scène son maître Socrate, Platon inaugure ce geste intellectuel primordial : s'interroger soi-même, pour mettre en évidence préjugés et erreurs, et comprendre ce qui fait véritablement la morale, la vie en société, la valeur d'une vie humaine. Sans cette interrogation honnête et lucide, il n'y aurait qu'à fonctionner mécaniquement,... Read more

Visiting Archangel Gabriel

By: Max Highstein

Narrated by: Max Highstein

Length: 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Archangel Gabriel is known as God’s messenger. As a messenger, she (yes, she!) helps us with all matters of communication, and with creative expression—especially when we seek to bring love and light into the world. In this way, Gabriel helps us align our creativity with our higher purpose!In this Archangel Gabriel meditation you will receive a... Read more

100 citations d'Epictète

By: Epictète

Narrated by: Patrick Blandin

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Né esclave, Epictète devint l'un des plus grands philosophes stoïciens, et ses préceptes sont toujours appliqués aujourd'hui. Nous lui devons le stoïcisme, doctrine pensée pour éviter toutes les souffrances inutiles. Il n'y a que sur nos propres actions et attitudes que nous pouvons agir ; comme ce n'est pas parce que l'on s'inquiète beaucoup... Read more

100 citations de Francis Bacon

By: Francis Bacon

Narrated by: Patrick Blandin

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Pas de méthode scientifique moderne sans Sir Francis Bacon. Son oeuvre s'inscrit dans le cadre de la révolution scientifique, qui prit son essor au XVIIe siècle en Angleterre et décida de toute l'évolution de la pensée philosophique et scientifique. C'est à lui que l'on doit l'idée d'une approche méthodique, fondée sur l'observation prudente des... Read more

100 citations d'Emmanuel Kant

By: Emmanuel Kant

Narrated by: Patrick Blandin

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Emmanuel Kant est une figure incontournable de la philosophie allemande. On lui doit une compréhension absolument nouvelle de la façon dont l'esprit façonne l'expérience. Kant constate qu'on ne peut jamais percevoir que des phénomènes, c'est-à-dire des perceptions déterminées par nos sens et nos structures mentales, et jamais la chose objective,... Read more

100 citations de Kierkegaard

By: Kierkegaard

Narrated by: Patrick Blandin

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Philosophe , chrétien et séducteur, Soren Kierkegaard fut une influence majeure sur la théologie en même temps que sur la philosophie occidentale. Poète, mystique et mélancolique, Kierkegaard s'attache à penser ce que signifie être sujet de sa propre existence, les sentiments entraînés par nos choix de vie, et la relation que la foi donne avec... Read more

100 citations de Marc Aurèle

By: Marc-Aurèle

Narrated by: Patrick Blandin

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Marc-Aurèle est le dernier des "Cinq bons empereurs" de Rome ; son règne marque l'apogée de l'empire romain, qui ne sera jamais plus riche et pacifié qu'alors. Il partage avec l'esclave Epictète une place majeure dans la philosophie stoïcienne, et ses enseignements n'ont rien perdu de leur utilité aujourd'hui. Ses Méditations sont une série de... Read more

100 citations d'Arthur Schopenhauer

By: Arthur Schopenhauer

Narrated by: Patrick Blandin

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

La philosophie d'Arthur Schopenhauer est sombre, pessimiste, parfois brutale, mais ne s'empêche pas de résonner d'un rire sarcastique. Dans son oeuvre majeure, le Monde comme Volonté et Représentation, Schopenhauer démontre que le libre-arbitre individuel est illusoire, sachant que la seule Volonté qui compte n'est que celle de l'espèce qui tend... Read more

100 citations de Friedrich Nietzsche

By: Friedrich Nietzsche

Narrated by: Patrick Blandin

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Lire Nietzsche, c'est apprendre à philosopher à coups de marteau. Dans les bibliothèques universitaires, ce sont les livres de Nietzsche qui sont les plus souvent volés. Pas étonnant : la rencontre avec Nietzsche fascine et apprend à penser, voire à se rebeller. Sa pensée est radicale, parfois violente, souvent ironique ; ses écrits sont à la... Read more

100 citations de Henry David Thoreau

By: Henry David Thoreau

Narrated by: Patrick Blandin

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Henry David Thoreau : auteur incontournable pour qui se pose la question de la vie juste. Poète et philosophe américain, partisan de l'abolition de l'esclavage, défenseur de la désobéissance civile face à un gouvernement corrompu, Thoreau est aussi précurseur du mouvement de la simplicité volontaire. "Walden ou la vie dans les bois" fut écrit... Read more

100 quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer: Great philosophers & their inspiring thoughts

By: Arthur Schopenhauer

Narrated by: Jonathan Waite

Length: 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Mungo Park was an explorer of the real kind. In 1795, only aged 24, he left Gambia for the uncharted interior of Africa, in a journey that would be filled with tragedy, heroism, and adventure. Park was the first European to ever reach the river Niger and the legendary city of Timbuctoo, thus resolving, once and for all, a century-old geographic... Read more

100 quotes by Soren Kierkgaard: Great philosophers & their inspiring thoughts

By: Soren Kierkgaard

Narrated by: Katie Haigh

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The water bottle is a short story in the " The Eight Strokes of the Clock " collection of eight short stories by Maurice Leblanc. Their main character: Arsène Lupin, the beloved gentleman thief, one of the most famous characters of the detective genre. All eight stories are independent but brought together by a leading thread. Posing as Prince... Read more

100 quotes by Francis Bacon: Great philosophers & their inspiring thoughts

By: Francis Bacon

Narrated by: Katie Haigh

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Thérèse and Germaine is a short story in the " The Eight Strokes of the Clock " collection of eight short stories by Maurice Leblanc. Their main character: Arsène Lupin, the beloved gentleman thief, one of the most famous characters of the detective genre. All eight stories are independent but brought together by a leading thread. Posing as... Read more

100 quotes by Epictetus: Great philosophers & their inspiring thoughts

By: Epictetus

Narrated by: Katie Haigh

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The Tell-Tale Film is a short story in the " The Eight Strokes of the Clock " collection of eight short stories by Maurice Leblanc. Their main character: Arsène Lupin, the beloved gentleman thief, one of the most famous characters of the detective genre. All eight stories are independent but brought together by a leading thread. Posing as Prince... Read more

100 quotes by Marcus Aurelius: Great philosophers & their inspiring thoughts

By: Marcus Aurelius

Narrated by: Katie Haigh

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The Lady with the hatchet is a short story in the " The Eight Strokes of the Clock " collection of eight short stories by Maurice Leblanc. Their main character: Arsène Lupin, the beloved gentleman thief, one of the most famous characters of the detective genre. All eight stories are independent but brought together by a leading thread. Posing as... Read more

100 quotes by Gautama Buddha: Great philosophers & their inspiring thoughts

By: Gautama Buddha

Narrated by: Katie Haigh

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

David Livingstone was a Scottish missionary and one of the greatest European explorers who ever lived. He fought all his life against slavery, and is remembered as a national hero for opening up the interior of the so-called "Dark Continent"; his expeditions had a tremendous influence on the colonization of Africa and the relation between... Read more

Elbow Room

By: Daniel C. Dennett

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In this landmark 1984 work on free will, Daniel Dennett makes a case for compatibilism. His aim, as he writes in the preface to this new edition, was a cleanup job, "saving everything that mattered about the everyday concept of free will, while jettisoning the impediments." In Elbow Room, Dennett argues that the varieties of free will worth... Read more

100 quotes from the Old Testament

By: JM Gardner

Narrated by: Katie Haigh

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Pupil of the great Plato, teacher of Alexander the Great, Aristotle is a massively influential figure in Western philosophy. Cicero described his literary style as "a river of gold". Modern ethics are based on his ideas about virtue; his writings literally encompassed all the scientific knowledge of the time and beyond, so much that many of his... Read more

110 quotes from the New Testament

By: JM Gardner

Narrated by: Katie Haigh

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

What is truth? How can one be true to oneself without knowing what it means? How can one be sure to tell the truth when reality is such a difficult thing to attain? So many philosophers have struggled to define truth, each one of them coming up with enriching ideas that shed light on the concept from as many different angles. We have selected... Read more

150 quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche: Great philosophers & their inspiring thoughts

By: Friedrich Nietzsche

Narrated by: Katie Haigh

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

One Thousand and One Nights, also known as the Arabian Nights, is a collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories compiled during the Islamic Golden Age. The beautiful Sheherazade, threatened with death, manages to postpone the fatal day by telling one marvellous story every night. The stories themselves are folk tales, fairy tales and... Read more

100 quotes by Plato: Great philosophers & their inspiring thoughts

By: Plato

Narrated by: Katie Haigh

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha, or more simply Don Quixote, is one of the most influential works of literature from a Spanish author. It is one of the earliest canonical novels, and is regularly cited as the best work of fiction ever published. A nameless hidalgo read so many chivalric romances that he loses his sanity and... Read more

100 quotes by Socrates: Great philosophers & their inspiring thoughts

By: Socrates

Narrated by: Katie Haigh

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: No

It is as great an offence against a child to starve his mind as to starve his body. The Astorg Audiobook collection means to bring together the fairy tales, stories, myths and legends which have fed the children of many generations in the years when the imagination is awakening and craving stimulus and material to work upon. We have selected for... Read more

100 quotes by Voltaire: Great philosophers & their inspiring thoughts

By: Voltaire

Narrated by: Katie Haigh

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The French Declaration of the rights of Man and of the Citizen is one of the most fundamental documents in the history of democracy. A representative product of the philosophy of the Enlightenment, it holds the rights of man to be universal, without distinction of race or religion, introducing the idea that human rights are a feature of human... Read more