Philosophy audiobooks

Guided Meditation for Anxiety

By: Kaizen Mindfulness Meditations

Narrated by: Cindy M. Bartz

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a script to a guided meditation meant for listening as an audiobook. Please get the Audible version for the full experience.If you have problems with anxiety or with your general response to daily stresses, you’ve made the right steps toward solace by considering this eBook. This guided meditation is all about diagnosing your anxiety... Read more

Feeling Like It

By: Tamar Schapiro

Narrated by: Nancy Peterson

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Feeling like doing something is not the same as deciding to do it. You may have an inclination to do it, but there is still a moment where you can decide to do it or not. This moment of decision presents a puzzle: if being inclined to do something is a form of motivation, or self-movement, how can we be passive in relation to our own... Read more

Gods on Earth

By: Krishna Dharma

Narrated by: Krishna Dharma

Length: 12 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Originally an epic Sanskrit poem of some hundred thousand verses said to have been composed five thousand years ago, Mahabharata is one of the most revered and loved stories of all time. It plunges us into a wondrous and ancient world of romance and adventure when men knew that there are greater powers than us controlling the universe. Passed... Read more

Stoicism: The History and Legacy of the Influential Ancient Greek Philosophy

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Colin Fluxman

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Although the school of philosophy started by Socrates and championed by Plato and Aristotle continues to be the most famous, other schools of thought began to branch, including the Epicureans and Cynics. In the 3rd century B.C., Stoicism arose in response to and under the influence of these older schools, combining many of the best theories... Read more

Strategy Masters: The Prince, The Art of War, and The Gallic Wars

By: Niccolò Machiavelli, Sun Tzu & Julius Caesar

Narrated by: Seth Thompson & Robert Brinkman

Length: 28 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Learn from the best military strategists of history how best to fight your battles in Strategy Masters. This collection includes three major military and political strategy texts: The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli, The Art of War by Sun Tzu, and The Gallic Wars by Julius Caesar. These three books, though written specifically about military and... Read more

How to Live Better: Using Modern Science to Cultivate Ancient Virtues

By: Everett Worthington

Narrated by: Everett Worthington

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Join Everett Worthington, world-leading social scientist and acclaimed clinical counselor, to learn how to live according to your values through the power of social psychology.  Cultivate humility, compassion, and gratitude in your daily life.  
 
For centuries, religion and philosophy have recommended ways to live life more virtuously, and... Read more

Philosophy 101: How to Think Big

By: Kevin Corcoran

Narrated by: Kevin Corcoran

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Ask civilization’s most provocative questions. Meet its greatest minds. Learn from one of philosophy’s best professors. If you could travel back in time and take one college course now, this would be it.
 
With a goal of expanding the minds of lifelong learners, celebrated philosophy professor Kevin Corcoran engages thinkers from Descartes to... Read more

Practicing Forgiveness: How to Forgive, Reconcile, and Restore Relationships

By: Everett Worthington

Narrated by: Everett Worthington

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Perhaps the world’s leading expert on forgiveness research, Everett Worthington distills decades of wisdom into 15 life-changing lectures.

The author or editor of more than 38 books on marriage, family, and forgiveness, Prof. Worthington received the Humanitarian Award from the Association for Spiritual, Ethical, and Religious Values in... Read more

Thomas Aquinas: Understand the Universal Teacher's Greatest Ideas

By: Eleonore Stump

Narrated by: Eleonore Stump

Length: 4 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

This course will have a profound impact on your faith and thinking. Thomas Aquinas, OP (1225-1274), is one of world history''s most influential thinkers. His works indelibly shaped Western thought and Christian belief, and his brilliant ideas continue to resonate in universities and churches everywhere. But his complex thought can often seem... Read more

Conscious Evolution

By: Barbara Marx Hubbard

Narrated by: Suzie Althens

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A seminal work of visionary hope, updated for the twenty-first century.



In this era of government gridlock, economic and ecological devastation, and seemingly intractable global violence, our future is ever more ripe for—and in need of—fresh, creative reimagining. With her clear-eyed, inspiring, and sweeping vision of a possible global... Read more

How We Can Build a Better World: The Worldshift Manual

By: Ervin Laszlo

Narrated by: Tom Force

Length: 3 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

We are in the midst of a global crisis. This is not just danger: it is opportunity—a golden opportunity. It is the opportunity to build a new world.To sit with folded hands, waiting for the crisis to take its course is to entrust our destiny to the vagaries of fortune. To go back to where we were is not advisable, and may not even be possible.... Read more

Die Kausalität in der Natur und andere Vorträge

By: Max Planck

Narrated by: Patrick Beck

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Der Nobelpreisträger Max Planck (1858 bis 1946) war nicht nur einer der bedeutendsten Physiker, sondern auch ein Philosoph, der unablässig nach Antworten auf grundlegende, weit über die Physik hinausgehende philosophische Fragen gesucht hat. In zahlreichen Vorträgen, gern dabei Goethe zitierend, hat er die Ergebnisse seines Nachdenkens über den... Read more

Doing the Right Thing

By: Scientific American

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Making ethical decisions involves more than listening to an inner moral compass, a feeling in the gut of what’s right and wrong. Questions of ethics in science are becoming increasingly complex, especially as technology encroaches upon even our most private cellular spaces. In Doing the Right Thing: Ethics in Science, we cover a wide range of... Read more

The Moral Powers

By: Peter M. Hacker

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 15 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The Moral Powers: A Study of Human Nature is a philosophical investigation of the moral potentialities and sensibilities of human beings, of the meaning of human life, and of the place of death in life. It is an essay in philosophical anthropology: the study of the conceptual framework in terms of which we think about, speak about, and... Read more

Orient et Occident

By: René Guénon

Narrated by: Steph dAumaiha

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Lecture d'Orient et Occident, de René Guénon (1924) Read more

The Problems of Philosophy (Unabridged)

By: Betrand Russel

Narrated by: Benjamin Hunter

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

This 1912 book remains among the most widely-used and well-written introductions to philosophy in English. It was aimed to be an accessible introduction to philosophy for the average shopkeeper in England in 1912. Despite its accessibility It has engaged scholarly philosophical commentators on a range of issues raised in the work. Above all it... Read more

The Hedgehog and the Fox

By: Isaiah Berlin

Narrated by: Peter Kenny

Length: 2 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

This compelling audiobook narrated by Peter Kenny presents Isaiah Berlin's acclaimed essay on Tolstoy and historical understanding "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." This ancient Greek aphorism, preserved in a fragment from the poet Archilochus, describes the central thesis of Isaiah Berlin's masterly essay on... Read more

Fierce Self-Compassion

By: Kristin Neff

Narrated by: Jean Ann Douglass

Length: 12 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of Self-Compassion follows up her groundbreaking book with new ideas that expand our notion of self-kindness and its capacity to transform our lives, showing women how to balance tender self-acceptance with fierce action to claim their power and change the world.

Kristin Neff changed how we talk about self-care with her enormously... Read more

Stoic Wisdom

By: Nancy Sherman

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Drawing on the wisdom of Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, and others, Nancy Sherman's Stoic Wisdom presents a compelling, modern Stoicism that teaches grit, resilience, and the importance of close relationships in addressing life's biggest and smallest challenges.



A renowned expert in ancient and modern ethics, Sherman relates how Stoic... Read more

Choice Theory

By: Michael Allingham

Narrated by: Mike Cooper

Length: 3 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

We make choices all the time—about how to spend our money, about how to spend our time, about what to do with our lives. And we are also constantly judging the decisions other people make as rational or irrational. But what kind of criteria are we applying when we say that a choice is rational? What guides our own choices, especially in cases... Read more

Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future ( Unabridged )

By: Friedrich Nietzsche

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

By turns illuminating, infuriating, bewildering, and amusing, Nietzsche's masterwork covers a lot of ground. He rejects most strands of Western thought, especially on the subject of morality, and develops his own theme demanding that individuals embrace their own 'will to power' to give life intention and direction. First published in German in... Read more

Candide (Unabridged)

By: Voltaire

Narrated by: Mason Connor

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Candide is a relentless, brutal assault on government, society, religion, education, and, above all, optimism. Dr. Pangloss teaches his young students Candide and Cunegonde that everything in this world is for the best, a sentiment they cling to as the world steps in to teach them otherwise. The novel is brilliant, hilarious, blasphemous. . .... Read more

How We Think ( Unabridged )

By: John Dewey

Narrated by: Kristin Price

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A book written by an American education philosopher in which he proposed “This scientific attitude of mind might, conceivably, be quite irrelevant to teaching children and youth. But this book also represents the conviction that such is not the case; that the native and unspoiled attitude of childhood, marked by ardent curiosity, fertile... Read more

Fear of Black Consciousness

By: Lewis R. Gordon

Narrated by: Landon Woodson & Lewis R. Gordon

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Lewis R. Gordon's Fear of Black Consciousness is a groundbreaking account of Black consciousness by a leading philosopher

In this original and penetrating audiobook, Lewis R. Gordon, one of the leading scholars of Black existentialism and anti-Blackness, takes the reader on a journey through the historical development of racialized Blackness, the... Read more