Philosophy audiobooks

The Philosophical Dictionary

By: Voltaire

Narrated by: Donal Donnelly

Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

-A collection of Voltaire's ideas and thoughts that were too short for pamphlets but worth saving for later development-wise and witty entries on subjects as diverse as atheism and kissing. Read more

On Truth

By: Harry G. Frankfurt

Narrated by: George Wilson

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Having outlined a theory of bullshit and falsehood, Harry G. Frankfurt turns to what lies beyond them: the truth, a concept not as obvious as some might expect. Our culture's devotion to bullshit may seem much stronger than our apparently halfhearted attachment to truth. Some people (professional thinkers) won't even acknowledge "true" and... Read more

Tao Te King

By: Lao Tseu

Narrated by: Michaël Lonsdale

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Le Tao Te King, traduit souvent pas Livre de la joie et de la vertu, fut considéré comme le texte fondateur de l'école, puis de la religion taoiste. Son auteur, Lao Tseu, serait né au VIème siècle avant J-C, mais rien n'établit clairement son existence. Il aurait été contemporain de Confucius et c'est en réponse aux principes de ce maître qu'il... Read more

The Faith

By: Charles W. Colson & Harold Fickett III

Narrated by: Charles W. Colson

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Rightly understood and rightly communicated, the Christian faith is one of great joy. It is an invitation to God's kingdom, where tears are replaced by laughter and longing hearts find their purpose and their home.This is the heart of the gospel: God's search to reclaim us and love us as his own. But have we truly grasped this? Those of us who... Read more

Adorno - Abridged

By: Christoph Demmerling

Narrated by: Christoph Demmerling

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Die Dichte von Adornos Texten erfordert eine Art von Aufmerksamkeit, die der Aufmarksamkeit beim analytischen Hören eines Musikstücks vergleichbar ist. Auch deshalb, und nicht nur, weil die Musik ein wichtiges Sujet der philosophischen Arbeit Adornos ist, würde sich die von ihm gelegentlich gebrauchte Formulierung "mit den Ohren denken" als... Read more

The Final Days of Socrates

By: Plato

Narrated by: Ray Atherton & Donal Donnelly

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The trial and condemnation of Socrates (469-399 B.C.) is one of the most tragic episodes in the history of Athens' decline. Plato, Socrates' most devoted disciple, has preserved for us the essence of the teaching and logical system of question-and-answer of western civilization's purest intellect in this sequence of four works: Euthyphro, The... Read more

The Art of War

By: Sun Tzu

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Master Sun said: “Ultimate excellence lies not in winning every battle but in defeating the enemy without ever fighting.”For more than two thousand years, The Art of War has stood as a cornerstone of Chinese culture, a lucid text that reveals as much about psychology, politics, and economics as it does about battlefield strategy. For those... Read more

The Histories

By: Caius Cornelius Tacitus

Narrated by: James Adams

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Caius Cornelius Tacitus, a Roman orator and public official, is considered one of the greatest historians as well as one of the greatest prose stylists of the Latin language. In The Histories, he describes and interprets the period in which he lived, beginning with the political situation that followed Nero's death in AD 69 and ending with the... Read more

Aristotle's Children

By: Richard E. Rubenstein

Narrated by: Nelson Runger

Length: 13 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Europe was in the long slumber of the Middle Ages, the Roman Empire was in tatters, and the Greek language was all but forgotten, until a group of twelfth-century scholars rediscovered and translated the works of Aristotle. His ideas spread like wildfire across Europe, offering the scientific view that the natural world, including the soul of... Read more

Ethik - Grundlagen - Abridged

By: Wilhelm Vossenkuhl

Narrated by: Wilhelm Vossenkuhl

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

SITTE UND ETHIK Was bedeutet Ethik und wie sind ethische Normen und Regeln mit der Welt, in der wir leben, verbunden? Warum sind die sittlichen, in Kultur und Religion verankerten Normen nicht ausreichend? Es geht darum zu verstehen, dass die Ethik eng mit der Sitte verbunden, aber doch eine eigene, unabhängige wissenschaftliche Disziplin... Read more

Ethik - Was wir sollen - Abridged

By: Wilhelm Vossenkuhl

Narrated by: Wilhelm Vossenkuhl

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

PFLICHT UND VERANTWORTUNG Wir Menschen sind für uns selbst und für andere verantwortlich. Die Verantwortung besteht aus Pflichten sich selbst und anderen gegenüber, aber auch aus rechtlichen Ansprüchen, die wir in einer Gesellschaft zu erfüllen haben. Es gibt auch eine Verantwortung für die Zukunft. KANTS KATEGORISCHER IMPERATIV UND DAS... Read more

Ethik - Das gute Leben - Abridged

By: Wilhelm Vossenkuhl

Narrated by: Wilhelm Vossenkuhl

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: Yes

DAS GUTE LEBEN ALS ZIEL Aristoteles hat die Aufgabe der Ethik darin gesehen, dem Ziel eines guten Lebens der Menschen zu dienen. Was war damals und was ist heute unter einem guten Leben zu verstehen? DAS WISSEN DES GUTEN Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts meinte der englische Philosoph Moore, 'gut' sei nicht definierbar. Wenn die Bedeutung des... Read more

Utopia

By: Sir Thomas More

Narrated by: James Adams

Length: 4 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In this political work written in 1516, Utopia is the name given by Sir Thomas More to an imaginary island. Book I ofUtopia, a dialogue, presents a perceptive analysis of contemporary social, economic, and moral ills in England. Book II is a narrative describing a country run according to the ideals of the English humanists, where poverty,... Read more

The Portable Atheist

By: Christopher Hitchens

Narrated by: Nicholas Ball

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Atheist? Believer? Uncertain? No matter: The Portable Atheist will engage you every step of the way. From the #1 New York Times best-selling author of God Is Not Great, comes this provocative and entertaining guided tour of atheist and agnostic thought through the ages with original pieces by Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali.... Read more

El Profeta - Abridged

By: Khalil Gilbran

Narrated by: Hernando Ivan Cano

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

El Profeta, un repositorio rico en sabiduria y alegría que ha inspirado a generaciones de personas. Con poesia frugal y bellamente resonante, El Profeta ofrece inolvidables palabras de esperanza y consolación sobre los temas del nacimiento, amor, del matrimonio, de la muerte y de los otros hitos de la vida. Read more

Zen Flesh, Zen Bones - Abridged

By: Paul Reps

Narrated by: Peter Coyote

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this collection of inspirational writings, novice and experienced practitioners are treated to four key works that rank high in the Zen canon: 101 Zen Stories recounts actual experiences with Zen that span five centuries. The Gateless Gate is a 13th-century collection of mind problems used in the practice of Zen. Ten Bulls is a 12th-century... Read more

Self-Inquiry - Dawn of the Witness and the End of Suffering (AYP Enlightenment Series Book 7)

By: Yogani

Narrated by: Yogani

Length: 3 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

"Self-Inquiry - Dawn of the Witness and the End of Suffering" provides practical methods for making use of abiding inner silence (the Witness) cultivated in Deep Meditation, resulting in increased inner stability and happiness amidst the ups and downs of life. The practice of Self-Inquiry also aids us in realizing the ultimate truth of existence... Read more

The Transformative Power Of Beauty

By: J. Ruth Gendler

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Beauty is a quality that defies definition. You know it when you see it, but may not know why one object looks beautiful while another does not. J. Ruth Gendler looks beyond definitions to explore the feeling of beauty, and the wisdom that makes it possible to transform the world to a place that’s more beautiful than we imagined it could be. Read more

Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar...

By: Thomas Cathcart & Daniel Klein

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 4 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Outrageously funny, Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . . has been a breakout bestseller ever since authors-and born vaudevillians-Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein did their schtick on NPR's Weekend Edition. Lively, original, and powerfully informative, Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar..... is a not-so-reverent crash course through the... Read more

The Emergence of Integral Consciousness

By: Allan Combs, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Craig Hamilton

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

We all sense intuitively that reality is not a jumbled assortment of unrelated parts, but a dynamic, unified whole. Yet, as fields of knowledge become increasingly complex and specialized, it's often difficult to see how all the parts of this whole truly fit together. In this dialogue with consciousness researcher Allan Combs, we explore the... Read more

Plato's Republic

By: Simon Blackburn

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 4 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Plato is perhaps the most significant philosopher who has ever lived, and The Republic, composed in Athens in about 375 BC, is widely regarded as his most famous dialogue. Its discussion of the perfect city—and the perfect mind—laid the foundations for Western culture and, for over two thousand years, has been the cornerstone of Western... Read more

Humanity's Potential to Consciously Evolve

By: Barbara Marx Hubbard

Narrated by: Craig Hamilton

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In Hubbard's research through history she realized that when a culture lost an image of its own future, which was positive to that culture, and they didn't believe in themselves anymore, the culture declined. Read more

Les rêveries du promeneur solitaire – Promenades I à V

By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Narrated by: Denis Podalydes

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Les Rêveries du promeneur solitaire de J.J. Rousseau, promenades 1 à 5 - L'habitude de rentrer en moi-même me fit perdre le sentiment et presque le souvenir de mes maux, j'appris ainsi par ma propre expérience que la source du vrai bonheur est en nous, et qu'il ne dépend pas des hommes de rendre vraiment misérable celui qui sait vouoir être... Read more

God Is Not Great

By: Christopher Hitchens

Narrated by: Christopher Hitchens

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Whether you're a lifelong believer, a devout atheist, or someone who remains uncertain about the role of religion in our lives, this insightful manifesto will engage you with its provocative ideas.

With a close and studied reading of the major religious texts, Christopher Hitchens documents the ways in which religion is a man-made wish, a cause... Read more