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Les 42 points d'enseignements proférés par Bouddha
By: Joseph Gabet & Évariste Huc
Narrated by: Daniel Franck
Length: 35 minutes
Abridged: No
En ce tems-là, Bouddah, le suprême des êtres, ayant révélé ses enseignements, ils se propagèrent de la manière suivante. Cinq hommes du rang des initiés, parvenus par le dépouillement de leurs passions à une paix profonde et inaltérable, passaient leurs jours dans une sublime contemplation dans le dessein de dompter la troupe des démons. Comme... Read more
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Artful Truths
By: Helena de Bres
Narrated by: narrator
Length: 7 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
This is an auto-narrated audiobook edition of this book.
Offers a philosophical perspective on the nature and value of writing a memoir.
Artful Truths offers a concise guide to the fundamental philosophical questions that arise when writing a literary work about your own life. Bringing a philosopher’s perspective to a general audience, Helena... Read more
Im Paradies wie immer
By: Axel Grube
Narrated by: Axel Grube
Length: 11 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
In einer Folge der Denkbilder Kafkas aus der Zürauer Zeit, Anklängen aus den Prosa-Texten, Sentenzen aus Briefen und dem Tagebuch und im Licht der Selbstaussagen über den persönlichen Grund seines Denkens, erscheint eine ungemein hoffnungsvolle Philosophie Kafkas in poetischer Plausibilität. Als Philosoph ist Kafka bisher nicht in Erscheinung... Read more
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The Quest for a Moral Compass
By: Kenan Malik
Narrated by: Homer Todiwala
Length: 15 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Accessible, fascinating, and thought-provoking, this is the groundbreaking story of the global search for moral truths
In this remarkable book, Kenan Malik explores the history of moral thought as it has developed over three millennia, from Homer's Greece to Mao's China, from ancient India to modern America. It tells the stories of the great... Read more
Ode aan de verwondering
By: Caroline Pauwels
Narrated by: Joke Devynck & Jeroen Medaer
Length: 2 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Kinderen zijn vaak verwonderd. Waarom is de zee blauw? Waarom wordt het donker? Waarom is die meneer kaal? Ergens op weg naar de volwassenheid verliezen de meesten van ons die onbevangenheid. Gaandeweg wordt het vuur van de nieuwsgierigheid gedoofd: de dingen zijn nu eenmaal wat ze zijn, er is niets nieuws onder de zon. En dat is jammer.... Read more
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Avatar: The Last Airbender and Philosophy
By: Helen De Cruz & Johan De Smedt
Narrated by: Tegan Ashton Cohan & Diontae Black
Length: 10 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Would our world be a better place if some of us were benders? Can Katara repair the world through care? Is Toph a disability pride icon? What does it mean for Zuko to be bad at being good? Can we tell whether uncle Iroh is a fool or a sage?
On the face of it, Avatar: The Last Airbender is a story about a lone superhero. However, saving the... Read more
Luminous Darkness
By: Deborah Eden Tull
Narrated by: Deborah Eden Tull
Length: 10 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
A resonant call to explore the darkness in life, in nature, and in consciousness through teachings, embodied meditations, and mindful inquiry that provide us with a powerful path to healing.
Darkness is deeply misunderstood in today's world; yet it offers powerful medicine, serenity, strength, healing, and regeneration. All insight, vision,... Read more
A Hidden Wisdom
By: Christina Van Dyke
Narrated by: Christina Van Dyke
Length: 7 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Medieval philosophy is primarily associated today with university-based disputations and the authorities cited in those disputations. In their own time, however, scholastic debates were recognized as just one part of wide-ranging philosophical and theological discussions. A Hidden Wisdom breaks new ground by drawing attention to another crucial... Read more
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Dune and Philosophy
By: Kevin S. Decker
Narrated by: Ariana Delawari & Nas Mehdi
Length: 10 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
"He who controls the spice controls the universe." Frank Herbert's Dune saga is the epic story of Paul, son of Duke Leto Atreides, and heir to the massive fortune promised by the desert planet Arrakis and its vast reservoirs of a drug called "spice." To control the spice, Paul and his mother Jessica, a devotee of the pseudo-religious Bene... Read more
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Theätet
By: Platon
Narrated by: Volker Braumann
Length: 5 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Was ist Wissen? Dies ist die grundlegende Frage, die Platon in dem Dialog "Theätet" verhandelt. Um diese so gewichtige Frage philosophisch zu diskutieren, lässt Platon seinen Sokrates mit dem Mathematiker Theodoros und dessen Schüler Theätet zusammentreffen. Während der ältliche Theodoros für den Erkenntnisgang des Dialogs eher die Rolle des... Read more
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La Teoria de los Sentimientos Morales
By: Adam Smith
Narrated by: Sebastian Borjas
Length: 1 hour 2 minutes
Abridged: No
La teoría de los sentimientos morales de Adam Smith es una obra publicada por el filósofo y economista escocés en 1759. En ella, Smith presenta su visión sobre la moralidad y la conducta humana, y sostiene que la moralidad se basa en los sentimientos y emociones humanas más que en la razón.Según Smith, los seres humanos tienen una tendencia... Read more
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What Makes Time Special?
By: Craig Callender
Narrated by: Ray Greenley
Length: 16 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
As we navigate through life we instinctively model time as having a flowing present that divides a fixed past from open future. This model develops in childhood and is deeply saturated within our language, thought, and behavior, affecting our conceptions of the universe, freedom, and the self. Yet as central as it is to our lives, physics seems... Read more
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Avoiding the Worst
By: Tobias Baumann
Narrated by: Adrian Nelson
Length: 2 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
How can we avoid worst-case scenarios?From Nineteen Eighty-Four to Black Mirror, we are all familiar with the tropes of dystopian science fiction. But what if worst-case scenarios could actually become reality? And what if we could do something now to put the world on a better path?In Avoiding the Worst, Tobias Baumann lays out the concept of... Read more
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Parfit
By: David Edmonds
Narrated by: Zeb Soanes
Length: 13 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
This audiobook narrated by Zeb Soanes paints an entertaining and illuminating portrait of a brilliant philosopher who tried to rescue morality from nihilism
Derek Parfit (1942–2017) is the most famous philosopher most people have never heard of. Widely regarded as one of the greatest moral thinkers of the past hundred years, Parfit was anything... Read more
Cloud-hidden, Whereabouts Unknown
By: Alan Watts
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 5 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Over the course of nineteen essays, Alan Watts ("a spiritual polymatch, the first and possibly greatest" —Deepak Chopra) ruminates on the philosophy of nature, ecology, aesthetics, religion, and metaphysics.
Assembled in the form of a “mountain journal,” written during a retreat in the foothills of Mount Tamalpais, CA, Cloud-Hidden, Whereabouts... Read more
Your Life Is in God's Hands!
By: Pastor Philip
Narrated by: Pastor Philip
Length: 13 minutes
Abridged: No
The story of King Hezekiah reminds us that we should not wait until tomorrow to do what we can do today. Don't waste the time He has given you. Do something meaningful with your life to give God a reason to keep you alive! Glorify God with your life today and He will enable you to do it again tomorrow. Your life is not yours to do with as you... Read more
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The Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali
By: Edwin F. Bryant
Narrated by: Keval Shah
Length: 30 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
A landmark new translation and edition
Written almost two millennia ago, Patañjali's work focuses on how to attain the direct experience and realization of the purusa: the innermost individual self, or soul. As the classical treatise on the Hindu understanding of mind and consciousness and on the technique of meditation, it has exerted immense... Read more
Talking Cure
By: Paula Marantz Cohen
Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
Length: 5 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Talking Cure is a timely and enticing excursion into the art of good conversation. Paula Marantz Cohen reveals how conversation connects us in ways that social media never can and explains why simply talking to each other freely and without guile may be the cure to what ails our troubled society.
Drawing on her lifelong immersion in literature... Read more
Discourse on Metaphysics - Unabridged
By: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Narrated by: Joseph Wycoff
Length: 2 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Written in 1686 by the celebrated German polymath Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, Discourse on Metaphysics is a short, early work in which Leibniz explains how the Earth, which was created by God (an undeniably perfect being), is therefore blessed with the same purity and perfection as its creator.
Leibniz was one of the most important... Read more
Ethics in the Real World, Revised Edition
By: Peter Singer
Narrated by: Julian Elfer
Length: 9 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Peter Singer is often described as the world's most influential philosopher. He is also one of its most controversial. He helped launch the animal rights and effective altruism movements and contributed to the development of bioethics. Now, in Ethics in the Real World, Singer shows that he is also a master at dissecting important current events... Read more
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Tending the Heart of Virtue
By: Vigen Guroian
Narrated by: Daniel Thomas May
Length: 9 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
In Tending the Heart of Virtue, Vigen Guroian illuminates the power of classic tales and their impact on the moral imagination. He demonstrates how these stories teach the virtues through vivid depictions of the struggle between good and evil, while he also unveils components of the good, the true, and the beautiful in plot and character. With... Read more
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Awakening to Your True Self
By: Zensho W. Kopp
Narrated by: Jonathan Lloyd
Length: 1 hour 17 minutes
Abridged: No
In clear words, Zen Master Zensho W. Kopp shows us in an inspiring way how we can see through the deceptive nature of our concepts so that we rise up above our self-made limitations. Through this we transcend our identification with the unreal and reach the absolute reality of our true self. We experience a liberating transformation to a deeper... Read more
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Del sentimiento trágico de la vida
By: Miguel de Unamuno
Narrated by: Sebastian Borjas
Length: 10 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
"Del sentimiento trágico de la vida" es un ensayo filosófico escrito por Miguel de Unamuno, publicado por primera vez en 1912. En este libro, Unamuno aborda la cuestión fundamental de la existencia humana: ¿qué sentido tiene nuestra vida y cómo podemos encontrarle un significado?Unamuno sostiene que la vida es trágica en el sentido de que está... Read more
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Метод Мацкевича
By: Владимир Мацкевич
Narrated by: Владимир Мацкевич
Length: 5 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
МЕТОД МАЦКЕВИЧА - подкаст, в котором вместе с методологом Владимиром Мацкевичем разбираемся с тем, что происходит вокруг в политике, культуре, обществе. Стараемся вникнуть в суть вещей, отбросить случайное и уловить важное.Учимся мыслить. Read more
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