Philosophy audiobooks

Floating in Darkness

By: Ron Garan

Narrated by: Ron Garan

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The true story of the life journey of a combat fighter pilot and astronaut. An adventure that illuminates a path toward understanding the meaning of life and our place in the universe.Humanity faces an unprecedented crisis that threatens all life on Earth. Desert Storm fighter pilot and NASA astronaut Ron Garan addresses this head-on in Floating... Read more

Stoicism: Discover How Stoic Philosophy Works and Master the Modern Art of Happiness, Stronger Self Discipline, Increased Confidence, Calmness, and Mental Resilience in a Turbulent World!

By: Harrison Walton

Narrated by: Harrison Walton

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: No

STAY GROUNDED AND LEARN HOW TO STAY CALM NO MATTER WHAT LIFE THROWS YOUR WAYWe all know that life can be tough.You don't need to be a genius to realize that things are constantly changing and that we're constantly faced with new challenges.It's hard enough trying to keep up with the demands of work, family, and social life, but when you add in... Read more

Critical Thinking & Stoicism: Discover How Stoic Philosophy Works and Master the Modern Art of Happiness - Think in Mental Models to Develop Effective Decision Making and Problem Solving Skills

By: Harrison Walton

Narrated by: Harrison Walton

Length: 2 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

YOUR ALL-IN-ONE GUIDE TO ALWAYS STAY LEVEL-HEADED AND EFFECTIVELY SOLVE PROBLEMSWe all know that critical thinking and problem-solving skills are essential in the modern world, but it can be hard to know where to start.It seems like every day we're faced with new challenges and problems that we don't have the answers to.How do we make decisions... Read more

Religion of Samurai

By: Kaiten Nukariya

Narrated by: Aaron G Beyer

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Origin of Zen in India.Today, Zen as a living faith can be found in its pure form only among the Japanese Buddhists. You cannot find it in the so-called Gospel of Buddha anymore than you can find Unitarianism in the Pentateuch, nor can you find it in China and India any more than you can find life in fossils of bygone ages. It is beyond all... Read more

Corpus Hermetica

By: Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus

Narrated by: Tom Prodehl

Length: 3 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Corpus Hermetica are Egyptian Greek wisdom texts from the second century or earlier that are mostly presented as dialogues in which a teacher, generally identified as Hermes Trismegistus, enlightens a disciple. The texts form the basis of Hermeticism. They discuss the divine, the cosmos, mind, and nature. Some touch upon alchemy, astrology, and... Read more

The Bhagavad Gita

By: Barbara Miller

Narrated by: Jacob Needleman

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Moments before entering the battlefield, the great Pandava warrior, Prince Arjuna, faces a moral dilemma about the violence and death the war will cause. Questioning the meaning of life, Arjuna asks himself, "Why do I exist? Why should I fight against my loved ones? And where shall I go after I die?" Arjuna seeks out Krishna for the answers in... Read more

Reflections

By: Walter Benjamin

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 15 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A companion volume to Illuminations, the first collection of Walter Benjamin’s writings, Reflections presents a further sampling of his wide-ranging work. Here Benjamin evolves a theory of language as the medium of all creation, discusses theater and surrealism, reminisces about Berlin in the 1920s, recalls conversations with Bertolt Brecht, and... Read more

A New Paradigm of Truth and Happiness

By: Martin K. Ettington

Narrated by: Martin K. Ettington

Length: 2 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

This book is for people who want to become happier by applying the truth concepts given here to their lives. It is all about seeing through the distortions and misinformation in our lives, civilization, science, and common beliefs. What you can learn from this book:·        Examples on how to apply these ideas to improve happiness in your daily... Read more

What Would Plato Think?

By: D.E. Wittkower

Narrated by: Aden Hakimi

Length: 4 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Get one step closer to solving the uncertainties in your life with this guided journal and philosophy overview, What Would Plato Think?.

Inside What Would Plato Think?, you’ll find the basics of philosophy, written in an easy, digestible way we can all understand, along with questions to help you apply these important theories to your own life.... Read more

Fully Present

By: Susan L. Smalley & Diana Winston

Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed

Length: 11 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

“Excellent. Fully Present offers one of the clearest introductions to mindfulness in the field.”
—Library Journal  Mindfulness has attracted ever‑growing interest and tens of thousands of practitioners, who have come to the discipline from both within and outside the Buddhist tradition. In Fully Present, leading mindfulness researchers and... Read more

Thus Spake Zarathustra (Unabridged)

By: Friedrich Nietzsche

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. Thus Spake Zarathustra was Friedrich Nietzsche’s favorite of the books he wrote, and has been his most popular amongst general readers. Yet some scholars dislike it because of its unphilosophical nature: it eschews jargon and the scaffolding of arguments, which engage only the... Read more

Discourses (Unabridged)

By: Epictetus

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. Raised a slave in Nero’s court, Epictetus would become one of the most influential philosophers in the Stoic tradition. While exiled in Greece by an emperor who considered philosophers a threat, Epictetus founded a school of philosophy at Nicopolis. His student Arrian of Nicomedia... Read more

Tusculan Disputations (Unabridged)

By: Cicero

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. Cicero composed these discourses while in his villa in Tusculum as he was mourning the death of his daughter, in order to convey his philosophy of how to live wisely and well. They take the form of fictional dialogues between Cicero and his friends, with each one focusing on a... Read more

The Dhammapada

By: Anonymous & Buddha

Narrated by: Bootsy Greenwood

Length: 1 hour 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The Dhammapada is the most widely read Buddhist scripture in existence, enjoyed by both Buddhists and non-Buddhists. This classic text of teaching verses from the earliest period of Buddhism in India conveys the philosophical and practical foundations of the Buddhist tradition.The text presents two distinct goals for leading a spiritual life:... Read more

The Religion Of Nature Delineated (Unabridged)

By: William Wollaston

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. Wollaston attempts to determine what rules for the conduct of life (that is, what religion) a conscientious and penetrating observer might derive simply from reasoning about the facts of the world around him, without benefit of divine revelation. He concludes that truth, reason, and... Read more

Dialogues (Unabridged)

By: Seneca

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 20 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. Seneca the Younger was a statesman and philosopher who lived in Rome around the dawn of the Common Era. Though he wrote a large amount of tragedies and other works, today he’s perhaps best known for his writing on Stoic philosophy and principles. Seneca didn’t write books about... Read more

Tao Te Ching (Unabridged)

By: Laozi

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 2 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. The Tao Te Ching is a classic Chinese text written around the 6th century BC by Laozi, a Zhoudynasty courtier. While its authorship is debated, the text remains a fundamental building block of Taoism and one of the most influential works of its time. Today it’s one of the... Read more

Meditations (Unabridged)

By: Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. Little Dorrit, like many of Charles Dickens’ novels, was originally published in serial form over a period of about 18 months, before appearing in book form in 1857. The novel focuses on the experiences of its protagonist Arthur Clenham, who has spent some twenty years in China... Read more

The City Of God, Volume I (Unabridged)

By: Bishop of Hippo Saint Augustine

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 20 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. Published in 1923, Jean Toomer’s Cane was widely heralded as one of the first masterpieces of the Harlem Renaissance, and its author as “a bright morning star” of the movement. Toomer himself, however, was reluctant to embrace an explicitly racialized identity, preferring to define... Read more

Vibratory Astral Projection & Clairvoyance

By: Carl Llewellyn Weschcke & Joe H. Slate

Narrated by: Joe H. Slate

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Go with the Flow. The Induced Out-of-Body Experience (OBE) and the Development of ExtraSensory Perception (ESP) are not just interesting paranormal phenomena. They are innate to the extraordinary expansion of conscious awareness happening right now. Evolution to higher consciousness is liberating and empowering. It's the Future, Now! Human... Read more

Arguing for a Better World

By: Arianne Shahvisi

Narrated by: Arianne Shahvisi

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Is it sexist to say that “men are trash”? Can white people be victims of racism? Do we bear any individual responsibility for climate change?

We’ve all wrestled with questions like these, whether we’re shouting at a relative across the dinner table, quarreling with old classmates on social media, or chatting late into the night with friends. Many... Read more

How to Analyze People

By: Daniel Spade

Narrated by: Daniel Spade & Kevin Harding

Length: 3 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Have you ever felt awkward because you can't catch the signals that your partner is trying to send you?
Would you like to read people by their unspoken behavior?
Do you wish you could figure out if someone is lying to you?
Do you want to get anybody to do anything you want?
Are you a manipulator or are you being manipulated?
Let's be honest.... Even... Read more

The Ethical Psychic

By: Jennifer Lisa Vest, PhD

Narrated by: Cindy Kay

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A 101 guide for psychics and energy workers to build an authentic, equitable, and culturally sensitive healing practice, written by Afro-Indigenous intuitive, scholar, and healer Dr. Jennifer Lisa Vest.

Being an ethical psychic means being of service--and learning how to navigate the thorny issues and unique risks inherent to intuitive... Read more

The Doors of Perception

By: Aldous Huxley

Narrated by: Rudolph Schirmer

Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The critically acclaimed novelist and social critic Aldous Huxley describes his personal experimentation with the drug mescaline and explores the nature of visionary experience. The title of this classic comes from William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: “If the doors of perception were cleansed, every thing would appear to man as it... Read more