Philosophy audiobooks

El vuelo de la inteligencia

By: José Antonio Marina

Narrated by: Pepe Ocio

Length: 3 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

José Antonio Marina nos introduce en el fascinante camino de la inteligencia para poder utilizar mejor todas sus posibilidades y estimular su desarrollo. Un imprescindible libro de cabecera para todos aquellos que quieran sacar partido de su propia inteligencia: para ello hay que entender qué es y en qué consiste la inteligencia, qué es ser... Read more

The Book Of Hanuman

By: Parvez Dewan

Narrated by: Derek Denzil Joseph

Length: 3 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Hanuman is an outstanding scholar, a fearless warrior, and the ideal lieutenant: intelligent, totally committed to his master, selfless and humble. Born into the Vanar tribe, a clan of the upa-devatas (demi-deities), he represents the four best-known divine attributes akhand brahmacharya (lifelong celibacy), immense physical prowess, a command... Read more

Hume

By: James A. Harris

Narrated by: Julian Elfer

Length: 3 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

David Hume, philosopher, historian, economist, librarian, and essayist, was one of the great figures of the European Enlightenment. Unlike some of his famous contemporaries, however, he was not dogmatically committed to idealized conceptions of reason, liberty, and progress. Instead, Hume was a skeptic whose arguments questioned the reach and... Read more

The Hidden Half

By: Michael Blastland

Narrated by: Kris Dyer

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Why does one smoker die of lung cancer but another live to 100? The answer is "The Hidden Half"—those random, unknowable variables that mess up our attempts to comprehend the world.



We humans are very clever creatures—but we're idiots about how clever we really are. In this entertaining and ingenious book, Blastland reveals how in our quest to... Read more

The Faithful Apologist

By: K. Scott Oliphint

Narrated by: Van Tracy

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Rediscover the art of Christian persuasion in an age of increasing unreason. For many Christians who've tried their hands at evangelism or have had to defend their faith, it can feel like doing PR work for God—limiting ourselves to a series of strategies and tactics. In The Faithful Apologist, Scott Oliphint provides a cross-centered foundation... Read more

Five Realities, One Truth

By: Andrew Lohrey

Narrated by: Brigid Lohrey

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the optimistic story of our fraught relationship to universal consciousness, the domain that transcends every local mind. It is also the story of how reality is relative and changeable to the way each of us makes meaning. Truth on the other hand represents the permanent and timeless state of being beyond history and culture that is... Read more

Dharma Artha Kama Moksha

By: Devdutt Pattanaik & Mihir Saswadkar

Narrated by: Abhishek Sharma

Length: 4 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Artha-shastra is about generating food, i.e. wealth, by creating goods and services; Kama-shastra is about indulging our hungers with this food. Dharma-shastra insists we consider the hunger of others, while Moksha-shastra is about outgrowing our hungers, in order to be detached and generous. Together, these four Hindu shastras provide a... Read more

De las bacterias a Bach

By: Daniel C. Dennett

Narrated by: Sergio Alberto Bustos de la Tijera

Length: 19 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

¿Por qué hay mentes? ¿Y cómo han llegado a aparecer?En la que con toda seguridad se trata de una de las obras más importantes sobre la evolución de la mente que se haya escrito recientemente, Daniel Dennett intenta responder a estas dos preguntas. Por el camino el autor analizará qué nos asemeja y qué nos distancia del resto de habitantes de... Read more

Me cago en godard

By: Pedro Vallin

Narrated by: Ignacio Casas

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Críticos culturales de plumas avinagradas han sentenciado durante décadas que el cine de Hollywood oculta un maligno instrumento de adoctrinamiento colectivo. Una perversión subliminal que aliena a las masas y les inocula la ideología dominante. Semejante visión del cine comercial supone que la gente es imbécil. Que se la traga siempre. Entre... Read more

The Power of Knowing

By: Karen Mc Dermott

Narrated by: Mandy Gasson

Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Do you know how to know? In The Power of Knowing, author Karen Mc Dermott will share insights, strategies and personal stories that will help you rediscover your natural ability to KNOW! In a time when a lot of people search outward for answers to inward issues there is no better time to reconnect with the natural born instinct we all have to... Read more

The Republic

By: Plato

Narrated by: Leighton Pugh

Length: 12 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Republic Socrates is asked the question ‘What is justice?’ And in order to answer it, he draws a long and detailed analogy between the individual and the city. Plato’s work forms the foundation of Western philosophy and covers a wide range of topics including political theory and ethics, with extended digressions into artistic and... Read more

The Misleading Mind

By: Karuna Cayton

Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Buddhism asserts that we each have the potential to free ourselves from the prison of our problems. As practiced for more than twenty-six hundred years, the process involves working with, rather than against, our depression, anxiety, and compulsions. We do this by recognizing the habitual ways our minds perceive and react—the way they mislead.... Read more

The Devil: A Biography

By: Vernon Cisney

Narrated by: Vernon Cisney

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Discover the complex role the figure of the Devil plays in our belief systems and culture with award-winning Gettysburg College professor Vernon W. Cisney.
 
Known by many names—Lucifer, Beelzebub, Mephistopheles, and Satan, to name but a few—the Devil is universally recognized as the embodiment of pure evil and rebellion in Christianity. Although... Read more

Suffering-Focused Ethics

By: Magnus Vinding

Narrated by: Randal Schaffer

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The reduction of suffering deserves special priority. Many ethical views support this claim, yet so far these have not been presented in a single place. Suffering-Focused Ethics provides the most comprehensive presentation of suffering-focused arguments and views to date, including a moral realist case for minimizing extreme suffering. The book... Read more

Universal Holistic Philosophy

By: Martin K. Ettington

Narrated by: Martin K. Ettington

Length: 2 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Most of us have been trained by schools and universities as to what scientific and historical truths are supposed to be. However, I maintain that much of what science and history teaches us is in error because the proponents of different points of view have too narrow an understanding of the truth that reality presents. This narrow point of view... Read more

Many Lives, Many Masters

By: Brian L. Weiss

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

From author and psychotherapist Dr. Brian Weiss comes the classic New York Times bestseller on the true case of the past-life therapy that changed the lives of both the prominent psychiatrist and young patient involved—now featuring a new afterword by the author.

As a traditional psychotherapist, Dr. Brian Weiss was astonished and skeptical when... Read more

The Correctional Facility

By: Bill Schubart

Narrated by: Kent Cassella

Length: 2 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Raised as a Catholic in rural Vermont, I was infused with an awareness of sin and penitence, but also absolution and forgiveness. My late teenage encounter with Dostoevsky’s “Legend of the Grand Inquisitor” shattered my youthful allegiance to Catholic dogma, but it’s one thing to walk away from Catholic doctrine and quite another to lose the... Read more

Power Of Sacrifice

By: Gabriel Agbo

Narrated by: Ian A Miller

Length: 3 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Sacrifices are powerful. Very powerful! The richest man, the strongest man, the most blessed men and women, the wisest, the greatest king, the most powerful prophets were all men and women of sacrifice. They gave all, risked all for their people, humanity and for God to achieve their goals and feats that even eternity will be proud of. You want... Read more

La libertad de ser libres

By: Hannah Arendt

Narrated by: Charo Soria & Javier Portugués (Portu)

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

«Leer a Hannah Arendt permite comprender mejor el presente.»
Berliner Morgenpost ¿Qué es la libertad y qué significa para nosotros? ¿Consiste solo en la ausencia de miedo y restricciones, o acaso implica también la participación en procesos sociales, con voz política propia, ser escuchado, reconocido y finalmente recordado por otros? Publicado en... Read more

Lecciones de epicureísmo

By: John Sellars

Narrated by: Esteban Massana

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Filosofía antigua y mediterránea para la vida moderna. Un antídoto epicúreo para la ansiedad. ¿Cómo vivir una vida feliz? Hace más de dos mil años, el filósofo griego Epicuro ofreció una respuesta simple: lo único que realmente necesitamos es placer. Hoy tendemos a asociar la palabra «epicúreo» con el exceso indulgente y el simple disfrute de la... Read more

The Transcendentalists and Their World

By: Robert A. Gross

Narrated by: Paul Brion

Length: 26 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The Transcendentalists and Their World offers a fresh view of the thinkers whose outsize impact on philosophy and literature would spread from tiny Concord to all corners of the earth. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the Alcotts called this New England town home, and Thoreau drew on its life extensively in his... Read more

Heaven in Disorder

By: Slavoj Zizek

Narrated by: Will Tulin

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

As we emerge (though perhaps only temporarily) from the pandemic, other crises move center stage: outrageous inequality, climate disaster, desperate refugees, mounting tensions of a new cold war. The abiding motif of our time is relentless chaos.



Acknowledging the possibilities for new beginnings at such moments, Mao Zedong famously proclaimed,... Read more

Beyond Vision

By: Allan Jones

Narrated by: Christopher Cameron

Length: 15 hours

Abridged: No

In this unique and exhilarating autobiography, Allan Jones – Canada’s first blind diplomat – vividly describes how an untreatable eye disease slowly decimated his visual world, most challengingly during his postings in Tokyo and New Delhi, and how he discovered and took to heart the revelatory Indian philosophy that changed his life.... Read more

El método Ikigai

By: Francesc Miralles & Héctor García (Kirai)

Narrated by: Benjamín Figueres

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Ikigai es la innovadora filosofía que está revolucionando el mundo. ¿Sabes ya cuál es tu ikigai, cuál es tu «razón de ser»? Tras descubrir las claves de la motivación y la longevidad con Ikigai: los secretos de Japón para una vida larga y feliz (éxito de ventas traducido a más de 30 idiomas), Héctor García y Francesc Miralles vuelven a esta... Read more