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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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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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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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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
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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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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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
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
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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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
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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On Writing and Failure
By: Stephen Marche
Narrated by: Stephen Marche
Length: 1 hour 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Writing is, and always will be, an act defined by failure. The best plan is to just get used to it. Failure is a topic discussed in every creative writing department in the world, but this is the book every beginning writer should have on their shelf to prepare them. Less a guide to writing and more a guide to what you need to continue... 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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Qu'est-ce qu'une nation ?
By: Ernest Renan
Narrated by: Daniel Franck
Length: 51 minutes
Abridged: No
« Une nation est une âme, un principe spirituel. Deux choses qui, à vrai dire, n’en font qu’une, constituent cette âme, ce principe spirituel. L’une est dans le passé, l’autre dans le présent. L’une est la possession en commun d’un riche legs de souvenirs ; l’autre est le consentement actuel, le désir de vivre ensemble, la volonté de continuer à... Read more
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The Kybalion
By: Three Initiates
Narrated by: Thomas Blackwood
Length: 3 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Step into the world of Hermetic philosophy with 'The Kybalion', an audiobook that explores the timeless wisdom of the ancient Hermetic masters. Written in the early 20th century, 'The Kybalion' remains one of the most influential works on the Hermetic philosophy, offering profound insights into the nature of reality, the workings of the... Read more
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How to Think Like a Philosopher
By: Peter Cave
Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe
Length: 11 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
In showing how the great philosophers of human history lived and thought – and what they thought about – Peter Cave provides an accessible and enjoyable introduction to thinking philosophically and how it can change our everyday lives. With a lightness of touch, he addresses questions such as: Is there anything ‘out there’ that gives meaning to... Read more
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But Are You Alive?
By: Eloise Skinner
Narrated by: Eloise Skinner
Length: 5 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Discover your path to a varied and meaningful life, and feel truly alive.
In 'But Are You Alive?', entrepreneur and teacher Eloise Skinner explores lessons learned from a decade spent pursuing depth, purpose and meaning, including from her training in a monastic community and in the field of existential therapy.
Working through practical... Read more
How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't
By: Ian Dunt
Narrated by: Ian Dunt
Length: 11 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Features and Audio exclusive interview with Dorian Lynskey
British politics is broken.
Anyone sitting down to watch the news will get the sense that something has gone terribly wrong. We have prime ministers who detonate the economy, secretaries of state who are intellectually incapable of doing the job and MPs who seem temperamentally unsuited to... Read more
The God Desire
By: David Baddiel
Narrated by: David Baddiel
Length: 2 hours
Abridged: No
From the bestselling author of Jews Don’t Count ‘ A hugely heartfelt, funny, kind, fascinating, human and clever book ’ ALAIN DE BOTTON‘ Magnificent. Breathtaking. And shockingly rare … another one-sitting wonder’ STEPHEN FRY David Baddiel would love there to be a God. He has spent a lot of... Read more
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Also sprach Zarathustra 1
By: Friedrich Nietzsche
Narrated by: Volker Braumann
Length: 5 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
In "Also sprach Zarathustra" bringt Friedrich Nietzsche die Kerngedanken seiner Philosophie in großer Dichtung zum Ausdruck. Die ewige Wiederkunft des Gleichen, der Übermensch, der Wille zur Macht: All dies findet sich in diesem monolithisch dastehenden Werk und bündelt sich in der feurigen Figur des Zarathustra. Der Sprecher Volker Braumann... Read more
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