Philosophy audiobooks

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

Plato's Apology

By: Plato

Narrated by: Albert A. Anderson

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

Socrates is on trial for his life. He is charged with impiety and corrupting young people. He presents his own defense, explaining why he has devoted his life to challenging the most powerful and important people in the Greek world. The reason is that rich and famous politicians, priests, poets, and a host of others pretend to know what is good,... Read more

Dhammapada

By: Buda

Narrated by: Alejandro Gonzalez

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Abridged: No

El Dhammapada es una colección de aforismos escritos en pali, la lengua y escrituras propias de los textos sagrados de Ceilán, Birmania e Indochina, y se encuadra dentro de la tradición budista Hinayana (del pequeño camino). Read more

Mind Revolution

By: Phillip G Bosco

Narrated by: Phillip G Bosco

Length: 11 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Mind Revolution: Unraveling Reality (I & IV)Too often, we are being sold the idea that happiness and fulfillment come from factors external to ourselves—a new car, a job promotion, or perhaps even a new relationship. But what happens when a “dream” life built around a material world starts to crumble at an alarming rate? That’s for you... Read more

Stories on lord Ganesh series - 16

By: Anusha HS

Narrated by: Anusha HS

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Lord Ganesh is the son of Goddess Parvati and Lord Shiva. He is the first one to get worshipped before worshipping any other god. We can say in short that there is no Hindu who doesn't perform Lord Ganesh’s worship. In Ramayana Lord Rama had worshipped Lord Ganesh.In Mahabharata Lord Krishna had also worshipped Lord Ganesh. They have become the... Read more

Stoicism

By: Roman Stephenson

Narrated by: Tyler McGuire

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: No

Do you ever feel like you aren’t in control of your emotions? Are you looking for moral guidance that can help you achieve the best for yourself? Then keep reading...Whenever we ask ourselves how to face a challenge, or simply how to be happy, we are actually asking ourselves how to best lead our lives. But where can we find valid answers in... Read more

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

By: David Hume

Narrated by: Seth Thompson

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is a book by David Hume, a philosopher from the 18th century. Hume is known for being an empiricist philosopher, meaning he believed that sensory experiences and solid evidence are all that matters when it comes to knowledge. Empiricism posits that rationalism and empirical evidence are required to truly... Read more

Decoding Schopenhauer’s Metaphysics

By: Bernardo Kastrup

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 3 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

First proposed more than 200 years ago, Schopenhauer's extraordinarily prescient metaphysics—if understood along the lines thoroughly elucidated and substantiated in this volume—offers powerful answers not only to the paradoxes of quantum mechanics, but also to modern philosophical dilemmas such as the hard problem of consciousness—which plagues... Read more

More Than Allegory

By: Bernardo Kastrup

Narrated by: Matthew Josdal

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

This book is a three-part journey into the rabbit hole we call the nature of reality. Its ultimate destination is a plausible, living validation of transcendence. Each of its three parts is like a turn of a spiral, exploring recurring ideas through the prisms of religious myth, truth and belief, respectively. With each turn, the book seeks to... Read more

Why Materialism Is Baloney

By: Bernardo Kastrup

Narrated by: Stephen Graybill

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The present framing of the cultural debate in terms of materialism versus religion has allowed materialism to go unchallenged as the only rationally-viable metaphysics. This book seeks to change this. It uncovers the absurd implications of materialism and then, uniquely, presents a hard-nosed non-materialist metaphysics substantiated by... Read more

Everybody

By: Olivia Laing

Narrated by: Elizabeth Sastre

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

“Astute and consistently surprising critic” (NPR) Olivia Laing investigates the body and its discontents through the great freedom movements of the twentieth century. The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. In her ambitious, brilliant sixth book, Olivia Laing charts an electrifying... Read more

The Good Life Method

By: Meghan Sullivan & Paul Blaschko

Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Two Philosophers Ask and Answer the Big Questions About the Search for Faith and Happiness

For seekers of all stripes, philosophy is timeless self-care. Notre Dame philosophy professors Meghan Sullivan and Paul Blaschko have reinvigorated this tradition in their wildly popular and influential undergraduate course “God and the Good Life,” in which... Read more

Authority and Freedom

By: Jed Perl

Narrated by: Daniel Oreskes

Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of our most widely admired art critics comes a bold and timely manifesto reaffirming the independence of all the arts—musical, literary, and visual—and their unique and unparalleled power to excite, disturb, and inspire us.

As people look to the arts to promote a particular ideology, whether radical, liberal, or conservative, Jed Perl... Read more

The Art of War: The Classic Guide to Strategy

By: Sun Tzu

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Sun Tzu’s The Art of War offers the wisdom of ancient China for the modern listener.

Originally written in the 5th century, The Art of War is a masterpiece of military strategy and Chinese philosophy that has influenced countless leaders, both on the battlefield and in the boardroom. The exhortations and advice from The Art of War have echoed... Read more

Woke, Inc.

By: Vivek Ramaswamy

Narrated by: Vivek Ramaswamy

Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

In this New York Times bestseller, a young and successful entrepreneur makes the case that politics has no place in business, and sets out a new vision for the future of American capitalism.

There’s a new invisible force at work in our economic and cultural lives. It affects every advertisement we see and every product we buy, from our morning... Read more

The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way

By: Nāgārjuna

Narrated by: Zehra Jane Naqvi

Length: 12 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The Buddhist saint Nāgārjuna, who lived in South India in approximately the second century CE, is undoubtedly the most important, influential, and widely studied Mahāyāna Buddhist philosopher. His greatest philosophical work, the Mūlamadhyamikakārikā—read and studied by philosophers in all major Buddhist schools of Tibet, China, Japan, and... Read more

Consciousness

By: Susan Blackmore

Narrated by: Zehra Jane Naqvi

Length: 4 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Consciousness, "the last great mystery for science," remains a hot topic. How can a physical brain create our experience of the world? What creates our identity? Do we really have free will? Could consciousness itself be an illusion?



Exciting new developments in brain science are continuing the debates on these issues, and the field has now... Read more

DBT For Dummies

By: Gillian Galen, PsyD & Blaise Aguirre, MD

Narrated by: Amanda Ronconi

Length: 14 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is one of the most popular—and most effective—treatments for mental health conditions that result from out-of-control emotions. Combining elements of Cognitive Behavior Therapy with Eastern mindfulness practice, DBT was initially used as a powerful treatment to address the suffering associated with borderline... Read more

El principito se pone la corbata

By: Borja Vilaseca

Narrated by: Borja Vilaseca & Jordi Llovet

Length: 4 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Un libro que cambiará tu manera de vivir el trabajo. Una historia que revolucionará tu forma de concebir las empresas. Un personaje inolvidable que transformará tu visión de la vida para siempre. Esta fábula basada en hechos reales narra la historia de Pablo Príncipe, un joven inconformista y visionario que tras padecer una crisis existencial... Read more

Notes from the Underground

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky

Narrated by: Simon Bubb

Length: 4 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

In this early work from Fyodor Dostoevsky, the role and domain of the anti-hero is explored and exposed.  In his self-appointed removal from society, the narrator attempts to dissect the complicated rules, both spoken and unspoken, of human interactions as well as the driving force and reason behind individual morality and universal truths.  He... Read more

The Authoritarian Moment

By: Ben Shapiro

Narrated by: Ben Shapiro

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times BestsellerHow far are Americans willing to go to force each other to fall in line?According to the establishment media, the intelligentsia, and our political chattering class, the greatest threat to American freedom lies in right-wing authoritarianism. We’ve heard that some 75 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump represent... Read more

Courage Is Calling

By: Ryan Holiday

Narrated by: Ryan Holiday

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The instant New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Bestseller!
 
Ryan Holiday’s bestselling trilogy—The Obstacle Is the Way, Ego is the Enemy, and Stillness is the Key—captivated professional athletes, CEOs, politicians, and entrepreneurs and helped bring Stoicism to millions of readers. Now, in the first book of an exciting new series... Read more

Wittgenstein

By: A. C. Grayling

Narrated by: Kyle Munley

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) was an extraordinarily original thinker, whose influence on twentieth-century thinking far outside the bounds of philosophy alone. In this engaging Introduction, A. C. Grayling makes Wittgenstein's thought accessible to the general listener by explaining the nature and impact of Wittgenstein's views. He describes... Read more

The Meaning of Life

By: Terry Eagleton

Narrated by: Jay Snyder

Length: 3 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The phrase "the meaning of life" for many seems a quaint notion fit for satirical mauling by Monty Python or Douglas Adams. But in this spirited Very Short Introduction, famed critic Terry Eagleton takes a serious if often amusing look at the question and offers his own surprising answer.



Eagleton first examines how centuries of thinkers and... Read more