Philosophy audiobooks

Thinking Together: A Socratic Dialogue

By: Christopher Phillips

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1996, Phillips started on a journey across America introducing his love of questions, using the Socratic method, to anyone who was interested.  In creating his first Socrates Café, he created an atmosphere of free exchange and energetic thinking, reviving the pleasures of examining one's most cherished beliefs. Read more

De l'amitié

By: Ciceron

Narrated by: Jean-Pierre Michaël

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Scaevola, vieillard et augure, rapporte à Cicéron une conversation tenue avec Laelius et Fannius sur l'amitié. Cicéron écrit alors un traité où se mêlent dialogues et récits sur le sens que doit avoir l'amitié, et la conduite qu'elle dicte aux hommes qui se réclament d'elle. Ce texte, écrit en 44 avant J.-C., s'inspire de la philosophie... Read more

Matter Of Perception, A:  Seeing Your World with Clarity

By: Susan Gregg

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Susan Gregg tells us that  "life is as it is," and our whole concept of reality is colored by what we tell ourselves about it.  She offers us an ancient Toltec formula for changing our experience of life without changing external situations. Read more

What Is Man?

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Carl Reiner

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: No

Locked in his desk for 25 years, What Is Man? was Twain's most serious, philosophical, and private work. The narrative appears in the form of a Socratic dialogue between a romantic young idealist and an elderly cynic. The pair debate issues of mankind, such as whether man is free to act or is more of a machine, whether personal merit is... Read more

What Is Your Calling?

By: Richard Leider

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Leider points out that a calling is more than just finding a job; it involves talents, passions, environment and values. Read more

Radical Son

By: David Horowitz

Narrated by: Jonathan Marosz

Length: 18 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Originally a radical socialist, the current driving force behind the rise of the Hollywood right recounts how he moved from one set of political convictions to another over the course of thirty years, and challenges readers to consider how they came by their own convictions. Read more

The Burden of Bad Ideas

By: Heather Mac Donald

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

In closely reported stories from the streets of New York to the seats of intellectual power, MacDonald shows how bad ideas get started and then acquire a life of their own. Her reports trace the transformation of influential opinion-makers and large philanthropic foundations from confident advocates of individual responsibility, opportunity, and... Read more

The Wonder of Mysticism

By: Wilson Van Dusen

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Van Dusen opens up the realm of mystical experience to all by sharing from his own personal experience in a simple, authentic style.  His eloquence and exuberant passion shine through his stories. Read more

The Bhagavad Gita

By: Stephen Mitchell

Narrated by: Stephen Mitchell

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The Bhagavad Gita is universally acknowledged as one of the world's literary and spiritual masterpieces. It is the core text of the Hindu tradition, one that has been translated into more than two hundred English editions. Stephen Mitchell—the acclaimed translator of Pablo Neruda, Rainer Maria Rilke, and the Tao Te Ching—has produced a... Read more

Escritos Y Proclamas: Simon Bolivar

By: Simon Bolivar

Narrated by: Pedro Montoya

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

El pensamiento vivo del Libertador. Simon Bolivar, el Libertador de America por antonomasia es justamente admirado, pero hay que decir que mucha gente lo considera un gran guerrero, un habil militar, pero olvidan las ideas que inspiraron a Bolivar, para convertirse en estadista guia de nuestro continente. Su prosa lucida y sus ideas se reflejan... Read more

Asi Hablo Zaratustra - Abridged

By: Friedrich Nietzsche

Narrated by: Pedro Montoya

Length: 3 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Así habló Zaratustra. Un libro para todos y para nadie (Título original en alemán: Also sprach Zarathustra. Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen) es una obra escrita entre 1883 y 1885 por el filósofo alemán Friedrich Nietzsche.

La obra contiene las principales ideas de Nietzsche, expresadas de forma poética: está compuesta por una serie de relatos y... Read more

Awakening the Buddhist Heart - Abridged

By: Lama Surya Das

Narrated by: Lama Surya Das

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Life is about relationship-the relationship we have with ourselves, with each other, with the world, as well as the connection to that which is beyond any of us yet imminent in each of us. When our relationships are good, we feel good; when they are bad, we feel awful. Let's accept it: We need each other. We need to feel connected; we need to... Read more

Lives of Moral Leadership - Abridged

By: Robert Coles

Narrated by: Harry Goz

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this rich and illuminating book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author Robert Coles creates a portrait of moral leadership--what it is, and how it is achieved--through stories of people who have led and inspired him: Robert Kennedy, Dorothy Day, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Erik Erikson, a Boston bus driver, teachers in college, medical... Read more

The Gift of Giving

By: Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspired by stories from her grandfather, an orthodox rabbi and scholar of the Kaballah, Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D., tells with wit and inspiration of her emergence from a socialistic, atheistic upbringing to a life and medical practice filled with grace, mystery and wonder. Read more

Balance Through Bodywork

By: Jon Schreiber, Angela Porter & Denise Berezonsky

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Jon Schreiber, America’s foremost Breema specialist and director of The Breema Center in Oakland, CA, discusses this unique bodywork based on nine universal principles that nurture the mind and body, guiding one towards a unified and harmonious state of well being. Read more

Healing and the Mind

By: Bill Moyers

Narrated by: Bill Moyers

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

In the best-selling companion volume to the PBS series, acclaimed television journalist Bill Moyers explores the fascinating, complex, powerful connection between mind and body in human health. Ancient medical science told us our minds and bodies are one. So did philosophers of old. Now, modern science and new research are helping us to... Read more

Awakening the Buddha Within - Abridged

By: Lama Surya Das

Narrated by: Lama Surya Das

Length: 3 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Lama Surya Das, the most highly trained American lama in the Tibetan tradition, presents the first comprehensive book of Western Buddhism for the modern-day spiritual seeker.

Buddhism offers a profound yet practical path to enlightenment.  In this loving and generous book, the American-born and Tibetan-trained Lama Surya Das offers at once a... Read more

Practice Makes Perfect

By: Bo Lozoff

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Following your bliss is not always easy.  In fact according to Bo Lozoff, there's only one thing more difficult:  not following your bliss.  Lozoff is following his at the Human Kindness Foundation he co-founded, where he gets to "see people in some of the most profound changes of their lives." Read more

Appreciating Your Originality

By: Thomas Moore

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

As former monk Thomas Moore points out many of us are working overtime to "build and manufacture a self, just as we build and manufacture the world."  Moore explores how and why we cover up who we really are and offers a vivid sense of what it means to live with passion and creativity through following the lead of your authentic self. Read more

Saint Augustine

By: Garry Wills

Narrated by: Alexander Adams

Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

For centuries, Augustine's writings have moved and fascinated readers. With the keen eye of a writer whose own intellectual analysis won him a Pulitzer Prize, Gary Wills examines this famed fourth-century bishop and seminal thinker whose grounding in classical philosophy informed his interpretation of Christian doctrine. Saint Augustine explores... Read more

Self-Reliance

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Narrated by: Peter Johnson

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

From the spiritual to the economic, Emerson s Self-Reliance details the various aspects of a man s ability to rely on himself for survival. This 19th century essay resolutely supports Emerson s life-long belief in individualism and encourages mankind to pass over practices like conformity and false consistency for following intuition and... Read more

The Art of Living - Abridged

By: Epictetus & Sharon Lebell

Narrated by: Richard Bolles

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Epictetus, one of the greatest of the ancient thinkers, believed that the primary mission of philosophy is to help ordinary people meet the challenges of daily life and deal with losses, disappointments, and grief. His prescription for the good life: master desires, perform one's duties, and learn to think clearly about oneself and the larger... Read more

Expanding Human Spirit

By: Huston Smith, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Westerners look to science to explain the way things are. Yet science often overlooks something essential to life: the human spirit. Although spirit cannot possibly be seen through the lens of a microscope, captured on a video camera or explained through scientific experiments, few of us would deny that it exists. Huston Smith breathes new life... Read more

Essential Mystery

By: Huston Smith, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The life of Huston Smith reads like an adventure novel.  One of the foremost religious scholars of our time, Smith lived in a missionary household in China, monasteries in Japan, and a sweat lodge in North America. Introduced to Vedanta through spiritual pioneers Aldous Huxley and Gerald Heard, he engaged many of the contemporary wisdom giants. Read more