Philosophy audiobooks

Strangers Drowning

By: Larissa MacFarquhar

Narrated by: Larissa MacFarquhar

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

What does it mean to devote yourself wholly to helping others? In Strangers Drowning, Larissa MacFarquhar seeks out people living lives of extreme ethical commitment and tells their deeply intimate stories; their stubborn integrity and their compromises; their bravery and their recklessness; their joys and defeats and wrenching dilemmas.

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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall

By: George Washington Plunkitt

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In the days of Tammany Hall, politicians like George Washington Plunkitt spent their careers in service to the city--but first and foremost in the service of the political machine. Plunkitt seems never to have doubted exactly where he stood on the deeply corrupt, yet amazingly effective politics and government in which he spent his life; he was... Read more

The Theater of War

By: Bryan Doerries

Narrated by: Adam Driver

Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

This compassionate, personal, and illuminating work of nonfiction draws on the author’s celebrated work as a director of socially conscious theater to connect listeners with the power of an ancient artistic tradition.For years, Bryan Doerries has been producing ancient tragedies for current and returned servicemen and women, addicts, tornado and... Read more

Rousseau and Revolution

By: Will Durant & Ariel Durant

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 57 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The Pulitzer Prize–winning volume on European civilization by acclaimed historians Will and Ariel DurantRousseau and Revolution, the tenth volume of the Story of Civilization, ranges over a Europe in ferment, but centers on the passionate rebel—philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the great exponent of the romantic impulse toward self-exploration... Read more

Understanding Beliefs

By: Nils J. Nilsson

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 2 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series Our beliefs constitute a large part of our knowledge of the world. We have beliefs about objects, about... Read more

Au nom du père, du fils et de la crème glacée - Abridged

By: Pierre Morency

Narrated by: Pierre Morency

Length: 1 hour 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Après avoir secoué un certain nombre de nos croyances depuis la parution de son best-seller Demandez et vous recevrez, Pierre Morency s'attaque ici de plein fouet aux fondements des écrits religieux et à la relation des humains avec le Père. Son postulat ? Dieu est content lorsque nous sommes gros, pauvres, malades et misérables. Il ne veut pas... Read more

The Buddha's Way of Happiness

By: Thomas Bien

Narrated by: Stephen Paul Aulridge, Jr.

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The excitement you feel after hearing good news or achieving a goal is fleeting, but true happiness - that is, the warm feeling of deep contentment and joy - is lasting, and it can be yours in every moment. The Buddha's Way of Happiness is a guide to putting aside your anxieties about the future, regrets about the past, and constant longing to... Read more

Paradox

By: Margaret Cuonzo

Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin

Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Thinkers have been fascinated by paradox since long before Aristotle grappled with Zeno's. In this volume in The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Margaret Cuonzo explores paradoxes and the strategies used to solve them. She finds that paradoxes are more than mere puzzles but can prompt new ways of thinking. A paradox can be defined as a set... Read more

Ein glückliches Leben

By: Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Narrated by: Uwe Neumann & Anette Daugardt

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

Auf der Suche nach einem glücklichen Leben ist der Mensch seit jeher. Was Glück bedeutet, das hat sich allerdings geändert und ist auch heute so unterschiedlich wie die Lebenswelten der Menschen. Läßt sich vor diesem Hintergrund überhaupt sinnvoll von dem Glück reden, lassen sich Regeln und Maximen aufstellen, die zu einem gelingenden, einem... Read more

Die Gemütsruhe

By: Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Narrated by: Uwe Neumann & Anette Daugardt

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Seneca, der große stoische Philosoph und Staatsmann, wird von seinem Freund Serenus wie ein Arzt angesprochen: »Heile mich, Seneca, von meinem Makel im Innersten!« Seine Seele fühlt sich beklemmt. Serenus beschreibt seine innere Unruhe, den Wankelmut, das innere Schwanken und daraus resultierend seinen Missmut und seine Unzufriedenheit. Seneca... Read more

The Lucifer Principle

By: Howard Bloom

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 12 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The Lucifer Priciple is a revolutionary work that explores the intricate relationships among genetics, human behavior, and culture to put forth the thesis that “evil” is a by-product of nature’s strategies for creation and that it is woven into our most basic biological fabric. Though this argument is not a new one—it has been brought forth by... Read more

Intelligent Disobedience

By: Ira Chaleff

Narrated by: Dave Clark

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

When It's Smart to Say No

Nearly every week we read about a tragedy or scandal that could have been prevented if individuals had said no to ill-advised or illegitimate orders. In this timely book, Ira Chaleff explores when and how to disobey inappropriate orders, reduce unacceptable risk, and find better ways to achieve legitimate goals.

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Wages of Rebellion

By: Chris Hedges

Narrated by: David de Vries

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Revolutions come in waves and cycles. We are again riding the crest of a revolutionary epic, much like 1848 or 1917, from the Arab Spring to movements against austerity in Greece to the Occupy movement. In Wages of Rebellion, Chris Hedges—who has chronicled the malaise and sickness of a society in terminal moral decline in his books Empire of... Read more

Free Will

By: Mark Balaguer

Narrated by: Steven Menasche

Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series In our daily life, it really seems as though we have free will, that what we do from moment to moment is... Read more

The Upanishads

By: Thomas Egenes & Vernon Katz

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 3 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The Upanishads are often considered the most important literature from ancient India. Yet many academic translators fail to capture the work's philosophical and spiritual subtlety, while others convey its poetry at the cost of literal meaning.



This new translation by Vernon Katz and Thomas Egenes fills the need for an Upanishads that is clear,... Read more

Trigger Warning

By: Mick Hume

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 11 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

In this blistering polemic, veteran journalist Mick Hume presents an uncompromising defence of freedom of expression, which he argues is threatened in the West, not by jackbooted censorship but by a creeping culture of conformism and You-Can’t-Say-That. The cold-blooded murder of the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists in January 2015... Read more

Altruism

By: Matthieu Ricard

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 29 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of the international bestseller Happiness makes a passionate case for altruism -- and why we need it now more than ever.

In Happiness, Matthieu Ricard demonstrated that true happiness is not tied to fleeting moments or sensations, but is an enduring state of soul rooted in mindfulness and compassion for others. Now he turns his lens... Read more

The Age of Voltaire

By: Will Durant & Ariel Durant

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 42 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The Age of Voltaire, the ninth volume of the Story of Civilization, is an in-depth examination of France and England in the first half of the eighteenth century. In this masterful work, listeners will encounter the English ideas that inspired the Enlightenment in France—skepticism, scientific experiment, constitutional government, "natural... Read more

The Dalai Lama's Little Book of Buddhism

By: His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Narrated by: Tom Parks

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

This little audiobook contains the core teaching on Buddhism by the Dalai Lama. It includes thought-provoking quotations about the importance of love and compassion, and the need for individual responsibility, fuses ancient wisdom with an awareness of the problems of everyday life.In addition to containing the essence of Buddhism, this audiobook... Read more

The Power of Compassion - Abridged

By: His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Narrated by: Derek Jacobi

Length: 2 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Based on the Dalai Lama’s talks in London this ebook addresses the current difficulties facing humanity including: racial hatred, gender and environmental protection. Modern life is so full of confusion and suffering that people need the courage to face their anger and hatred, in order to transfrom their lives and... Read more

Was wollte ... Mohammed? - phil.COLOGNE live (Ungekürzt)

By: Abdel-Hakim Ourghi

Narrated by: Abdel-Hakim Ourghi & Joachim Frank

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Gefährlich lebt, wer Mohammed nicht als Propheten, sondern als Philosophen betrachtet. Schließlich gilt Mohammed, rund 570 Jahre nach Christus in Mekka geboren, als Religionsstifter des Islam. Ihm soll mit dem Koran das Wort Gottes offenbart worden sein. Das macht den Umgang mit diesem Text schwierig: Wer ihn als Menschenwerk betrachtet, gilt... Read more

Curiosity

By: Alberto Manguel

Narrated by: John McDonough

Length: 15 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Alberto Manguel's The History of Reading was an international bestseller translated into thirty-four languages and for which Manguel earned the MEdicis Prize. Fourteen years later, Manguel anchors his new book in the primal connection between reading and curiosity. Tracing twenty-five centuries of human history, from the fourth century BC to the... Read more

Dead White Guys

By: Matt Burriesci

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

After his daughter was born prematurely in 2010, Matt Burriesci set out to write a book about thirty-two great books, from Plato to Karl Marx, and how their lessons have applied to his life. As someone who has spent a long and successful career advocating for great literature, Burriesci defends the great books in this series of tender and candid... Read more

Common Sense

By: Thomas Paine

Narrated by: Qarie Marshall

Length: 2 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1775, the American colonies were a hotbed of political discord. Many of the British policies, specifically taxes, had caused American colonial leaders to consider the unthinkable: declaring independence from the British Empire and its King George. One such leader, Thomas Paine, wrote Common Sense: a pamphlet that explained the advantages of... Read more