Philosophy audiobooks

The Art of Self-Improvement

By: Anna Katharina Schaffner

Narrated by: Rachael Beresford

Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliant distillation of the key ideas behind successful self-improvement practices throughout history, showing us how they remain relevant today



Self-help today is a multi-billion-dollar global industry, one often seen as a by-product of neoliberalism and capitalism. Far from being a recent phenomenon, however, the practice of... Read more

Being Better

By: Kai Whiting & Leonidas Konstantakos

Narrated by: Liam Gerrard

Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Practical answers to the urgent moral questions of our time from the ancient philosophy of Stoicism



Twenty-three centuries ago, in a marketplace in Athens, Zeno of Citium, the founder of Stoicism, built his philosophy on powerful ideas that still resonate today: all human beings can become citizens of the world, regardless of their nationality,... Read more

The Shame Machine

By: Cathy O'Neil

Narrated by: Cathy O'Neil

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A clear-eyed warning about the increasingly destructive influence of America’s “shame industrial complex” in the age of social media and hyperpartisan politics—from the New York Times bestselling author of Weapons of Math Destruction

“O’Neil reminds us that we must resist the urge to judge, belittle, and... Read more

What Does It All Mean? : A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy

By: Thomas Nagel

Narrated by: Adriel Brandt

Length: 2 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

In this cogent and accessible introduction to philosophy, the distinguished author of Mortal Questions and The View From Nowhere sets forth the central problems of philosophical inquiry for the beginning student. Arguing that the best way to learn about philosophy is to think about its questions directly, Thomas Nagel considers possible... Read more

Theological Ethics: Audio Lectures

By: W. Ross Hastings

Narrated by: W. Ross Hastings

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

In Theological Ethics: Audio Lectures, theologian, pastor, and ethicist W. Ross Hastings guides the church to think deeply and theologically about the moral formation of persons in our communities, about ethical inquiry and action, and about the tone and content of our engagement in the public square. Lessons present a biblical perspective and a... Read more

Foucault

By: Gary Gutting

Narrated by: David de Vries

Length: 3 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Born in 1926 in France, Foucault is one of those rare philosophers who has become a cult figure. Over the course of his life he dabbled in drugs, politics, and the Paris SM scene, all whilst striving to understand the deep concepts of identity, knowledge, and power. From aesthetics to the penal system; from madness and civilization to... Read more

Discovering the Philosopher in You

By: Colin McGinn

Narrated by: Colin McGinn

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Everyone has their own inner philosopher-a voice within that asks, oh so insistently, philosophical questions. Everyone wants to know what the ultimate nature of the world is, what the self is, whether we have free will, how our minds relate to our bodies, whether we can really know anything, where ethical truth comes from, what the meaning of... Read more

Plato and Aristotle

By: Aryeh Kosman

Narrated by: Richard Davidson

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

This course is an introduction to the philosophical thought of the two most important philosophical figures of ancient Greece. By working through parts of their central texts and thoughts, we will gain an understanding of Plato and Aristotle's relevance in the past and today as well. After each section of this guide, you will find some questions... Read more

Ethics: A History of Moral Thought

By: Peter Kreeft

Narrated by: Peter Kreeft

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

This course addresses some of the eternal questions that man has grappled with since the beginning of time. What is good? What is bad? Why is justice important? Why is it better to be good and just than it is to be bad and unjust? Most human beings have the faculty to discern between right and wrong, good and bad behavior, and to make judgments... Read more

Ideas That Shaped Mankind

By: Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

Narrated by: Felipe Arnesto

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Ideas That Shaped Mankind flows from internationally respected historian Felipe FernAndez-Armesto's views on the notion that man's capacity to produce ideas in itself brings about sweeping changes in the world. This ability, seen most profoundly in individual, startling moments of genius-or equally startling moments of chance-is what separates... Read more

Visions of Utopia

By: Fred Baumann

Narrated by: Fred Baumann

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Since ancient times, philosophers have struggled with the concept of the ideal society, or utopia. Many have contributed to the widely varying possibilities for just what such a system might entail. Religious, economic, and political structures all help to shape the composition of these utopias, and as these visions are shared, they impact the... Read more

The Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas

By: Peter Kreeft

Narrated by: Peter Kreeft

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

An enthusiastic admirer of the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas, professor and philosopher Peter Kreeft details the rational thought and precise literary talent that established Aquinas as the foremost thinker of his time-and as the most important philosopher for the almost two thousand years between Aristotle and Descartes. A landmark of... Read more

First Principles & Natural Law Part I

By: Hadley Arkes

Narrated by: Hadley Arkes

Length: 4 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In this course of lectures, Professor Hadley Arkes seeks to recall the classic connection between law and morality. Law works by replacing personal choice and private judgment with a public rule enforced on everyone, which raises the question of whether there are in fact rights grounded in the very nature of human beings. Seeking the principles... Read more

The Platonic Tradition

By: Peter Kreeft

Narrated by: Peter Kreeft

Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

This engaging course of lectures begins by providing a detailed and accurate overview of Plato's philosophy and it's central idea - the idea of a transcendent reality that has popularly become known as the theory of the Forms. Professor Kreeft then takes us on a concise journey through Western Philosophical history to show how that central idea... Read more

Speaking Out

By: Albert Camus

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The Nobel Prize winner’s most influential and enduring lectures and speeches, newly translated by Quintin Hoare, in what is the first English-language publication of this complete collection.Albert Camus (1913–1960) is unsurpassed among writers for a body of work that animates the wonder and absurdity of existence. Speaking Out: Lectures and... Read more

What We Owe the Future

By: William MacAskill

Narrated by: William MacAskill

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

An Oxford philosopher makes the case for “longtermism”—that positively influencing the long-term future is a key moral priority of our timeThe fate of the world is in our hands. Humanity’s written history spans only five thousand years. Our yet-unwritten future could last for millions more—or it could end tomorrow. Astonishing numbers of people... Read more

El infiel y el profesor

By: Dennis Rasmussen

Narrated by: Victor Bedoya

Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

David Hume es considerado el filósofo en lengua inglesa más importante que jamás haya existido. Sin embargo, en vida se le atacó por su escepticismo religioso, se le llamó el Gran Infiel y se le consideró inapto para instruir a los jóvenes. Adam Smith, en cambio, fue un profesor reverenciado de filosofía moral y a menudo se le ensalza como padre... Read more

Elogio de la duda

By: Victoria Camps

Narrated by: Walter Krochmal

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Fue Bertrand Russell quien dijo que la filosofía es siempre un ejercicio de escepticismo. Aprender a dudar implica distanciarse de lo dado y poner en cuestión los tópicos y los prejuicios, cuestionar lo incuestionable. No para rechazarlo sin más, sino para examinarlo, analizarlo, razonarlo y, por fin, decidir. Elogio de la duda recorre las... Read more

La búsqueda de la felicidad

By: Victoria Camps

Narrated by: Adriana Sananes

Length: 4 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Preguntarse por la naturaleza de la felicidad equivale a cuestionar el sentido y el fin de la existencia. La felicidad es una bu´squeda a lo largo de la vida de cada persona; la infelicidad, en cambio, es el abandono del deseo de seguir viviendo. Ma´s que una meta, la felicidad es un estado de a´nimo, el anhelo de una vida plena. No es objeto de... Read more

Stoicism

By: Jason Hemlock

Narrated by: Fred Filbrich

Length: 2 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Are you tired of the glass being half empty?Do you worry you don’t have the strength to cope when something bad happens? (And something bad always happens!)Stoicism changed the lives of its followers for the better and now it can do the same for you.The Stoics knew what made for a good man – and a good life. Four simple virtues empowered them to... Read more

Stoische Philosophie

By: Maximilian Feldtner

Narrated by: Florian Wolny

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Erwecke den Stoiker in Dir – 30 Tage, 30 ÜbungenKennst Du Personen, die sich von Dingen im Außen nur schwer beeinflussen lassen? Personen, die auch Krisen und Herausforderungen mit einer stoischen Gelassenheit begegnen? Willst Du praktische Tools in die Hand bekommen, mit denen Du Deinen Alltag bereichern kannst?
Erfahre in diesem... Read more

Chamanismo para principiantes: La guía definitiva para que los principiantes recorran el camino del chamán, el viaje chamánico y la elevación de consciencia

By: Mari Silva

Narrated by: Fabio Persa

Length: 3 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Para descubrir el poder oculto del chamanismo siga leyendo.¿Alguna vez se ha preguntado cómo es ser un chamán o qué implica ser un chamán?¿Alguna vez se imaginó una vida mejor siguiendo esta antigua tradición, incluso en nuestra sociedad puramente científica?¿No piensa que existen cosas más allá del universo científico del que tan poco... Read more

A World after Liberalism

By: Matthew Rose

Narrated by: Jeff Harding

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

,A bracing account of liberalism&rsquo,s most radical critics, introducing one of the most controversial movements of the twentieth century



In this eye-opening book, Matthew Rose introduces us to one of the most controversial intellectual movements of the twentieth century, the &ldquo,radical right,&rdquo, and discusses its... Read more

Glück

By: Matthieu Ricard

Narrated by: Matthias Ernst Holzmann

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

In seinem beeindruckenden Werk macht der bekannte buddhistische Weisheitslehrer Matthieu Ricard deutlich, wie jeder von uns die Fähigkeit entwickeln kann, tiefes Glück zu erfahren.

Welche Bedingungen verhindern unser Glücklichsein und welche begünstigen? Wie unterscheidet man zwischen echtem Wohlergehen und oberflächlichen Vergnügungen sowie... Read more