Philosophy audiobooks

Words of Gratitude

By: Robert A. Emmons & Joanna V. Hill

Narrated by: Pete Cross

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Learning to experience gratitude involves being grateful as an attitude, not as a reaction when good things occur. To be grateful, one does not need to wait until things are perfect. In fact, practicing gratitude makes one receptive to life's blessings, and these blessings continue as we continue to be thankful. In one study, described by author... Read more

The Truth of Yoga

By: Daniel Simpson

Narrated by: Tim Bruce

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Much of what is said about yoga is misleading. To take two examples, it is neither five thousand years old, as is commonly claimed, nor does it mean union, at least not exclusively. In perhaps the most famous text-The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali-the aim is separation, isolating consciousness from everything else. And the earliest evidence of... Read more

Countdown to Socialism

By: Devin Nunes

Narrated by: Larry Wayne

Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Once the party of anti-communism and tax-cutting under President Kennedy, the Democratic Party is now dominated by a surging socialist movement and led by a presidential candidate who vows to “transform” America. On a near-daily basis, the Democrats are issuing radical proposals to socialize medicine, industry, and higher education. So how can... Read more

The Organs of Sense

By: Adam Ehrlich Sachs

Narrated by: Andrew Wincott

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1666, an astronomer makes a prediction shared by no one else in the world: at the stroke of noon on June 30th of that year, a solar eclipse will cast all of Europe into total darkness for four seconds. This astronomer is rumored to be using the largest telescope ever built, but he is also known to be blind—both of his eyes were plucked out... Read more

1900: Or; The Last President

By: Ingersoll Lockwood

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

This near-future political satire about the election of a new president argues that socialism and populism will eventually give rise to chaos and disaster. Authored by Ingersoll Lockwood-around whom conspiracy theories concerning the sci-fi/fantasy character Baron Trump now abound-1900; or, The Last President is notable for both its clairvoyance... Read more

Meditations

By: Marcus Aurelius

Narrated by: James Anderson Foster

Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Marcus Aurelius was the Roman Emperor from 161 to 180 AD, and during that time, he kept several collections of journals that contained personal notes, militaristic strategy, and ideas on Stoic philosophy. While unlikely that he ever intended to publicly publish these journals, there is no real official title, so most often Meditations is used... Read more

Walden and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

By: Henry David Thoreau

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

An experiment. A declaration. A spiritual awakening. Noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau spent two years, two months and two days chronicling his near-isolation in a small cabin he built in the woods near Walden Pond, on land owned by his mentor and the father of Transcendentalism, Ralph Waldo Emerson. Immersing himself in nature and... Read more

Walden, or Life in the Woods

By: Henry David Thoreau

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1845, noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau spent two years, two months, and two days chronicling his near-isolation in the small cabin he built in the woods near Walden Pond on land owned by his mentor, the father of Transcendentalism, Ralph Waldo Emerson. Shedding the trivial ties that he felt bound much of humanity, Thoreau reaped... Read more

The Holographic Universe

By: Michael Talbot

Narrated by: Nick Mondelli

Length: 13 hours

Abridged: No

Nearly everyone is familiar with holograms—three-dimensional images projected into space with the aid of a laser. Two of the world's most eminent thinkers believe that the universe itself may be a giant hologram, quite literally a kind of image or construct created, at least in part, by the human mind. University of London physicist David Bohm,... Read more

Words of Common Sense

By: Brother David Steindl-Rast

Narrated by: Pete Cross

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Brother David Steindl-Rast takes us on a journey to discover the wisdom preserved in common-sense sayings that have been passed down through generations. These timeless words reflect the shared values cherished by people all over the world. "When you drink from a stream,” says one Chinese proverb, “remember the spring." From these simple words,... Read more

Theravada Buddhism, Simple Guides

By: Diana St. Ruth & Richard St. Ruth

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 2 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

This book will help you appreciate the timeless wisdom of the oldest form of Buddhism in existence, understand what it means to be a Buddhist, recognize the key practices and traditions of Theravada Buddhism, and avoid faux pas in conversation—both in traveling and personal relationships. Access the world's religions through this entry in this... Read more

The Monk and the Philosopher

By: Jean-Francois Revel & Matthieu Ricard

Narrated by: David Shaw-Parker

Length: 14 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Twenty-seven years ago, Matthieu Ricard gave up a promising career as a scientist to study Tibetan Buddhism-not as a detached observer but by immersing himself in its practice under the guidance of its greatest living masters. Years later, this project was born, and Ricard met with his father, Jean-Francois Revel-a French philosopher who became... Read more

Nature

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Narrated by: Phil Paonessa

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

This version of Nature is an 1843 revision to the popular essay written and published in 1836. In the original essay, Emerson put forth the foundation of transcendentalism, and suggested that reality can be understood by studying nature. Within the essay, Emerson divides nature into four usages: Commodity, Beauty, Language and Discipline. These... Read more

Identity and Violence

By: Amartya Sen

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

"One of the few world intellectuals on whom we may rely to make sense out of our existential confusion." —Nadine Gordimer



In this sweeping philosophical work, Amartya Sen proposes that the murderous violence that has riven our society is driven as much by confusion as by inescapable hatred. Challenging the reductionist division of people by race,... Read more

Worse Than Nothing

By: Erwin Chemerinsky

Narrated by: Daniel Henning

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Why originalism is a flawed, incoherent, and dangerously ideological method of constitutional interpretation



Originalism, the view that the meaning of a constitutional provision is fixed when it is adopted, was once the fringe theory of a few extremely conservative legal scholars but is now a well-accepted mode of constitutional interpretation.... Read more

Escape From Reason

By: Francis A. Schaeffer

Narrated by: Claton Butcher

Length: 2 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Truth used to be based on reason. No more. What we feel is now the truest source of reality. Despite our obsession with the emotive and the experiential, we still face anxiety, despair, and purposelessness. How did we get here? And where do we find a remedy? In this modern classic, Francis A. Schaeffer traces trends in twentieth-century thought... Read more

What Is Marriage?

By: Sherif Girgis, Ryan T. Anderson & Robert P. George

Narrated by: Claton Butcher

Length: 4 hours

Abridged: No

Until very recently, no society had seen marriage as anything other than a conjugal partnership: a male–female union. What Is Marriage? identifies and defends the reasons for this historic consensus and shows why redefining civil marriage as something other than the conjugal union of husband and wife is a mistake. Sherif Girgis, Ryan T.... Read more

El Poder

By: Pedro Baños

Narrated by: Martin Untrojb

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Astucia, prudencia... Pedro Baños multiplica las enseñanzas de Maquiavelo y las actualiza cuando la realidad estratégica, que conoce tan bien, lo exige. ¿Cómo se alcanza el poder? ¿Cómo conservarlo? El poder cambia de forma o pasa de manos, pero siempre está ahí, muy presente. Nicolás Maquiavelo escribió 'El Príncipe' pensando en los gobernantes... Read more

Gastrosofía

By: Eduardo Infante & Cristina Macía

Narrated by: Ana María Muñoz

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Un menú pitagórico vegano, un menú kantiano servido a la hora en punto, una comida medieval con fondo de 'Carmina Burana' o un Banquete digno del mejor Sócrates. Un ameno recorrido por lo que pensaron sobre la comida –y lo que comieron o bebieron– algunos de los filósofos más ilustres. Mediado el siglo XIX, el pintoresco pensador alemán Eugen... Read more

Finding, Framing, and Hanging Jefferson

By: Alan Dershowitz

Narrated by: Jim Seybert

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A #1 New York Times bestselling author, Harvard Law School professor, and tireless defender of civil liberties unearths a little-known letter by his hero, Thomas Jefferson, and shares its secrets. The letter illuminates Jefferson’s views on freedom of speech in a way that has important implications for the country today, particularly in the... Read more

The Art of War

By: Sun Tzu

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Dating back to the 5th century B.C.,The Art of War is an ancient Chinese text on military strategy whose teachings have become very influential and popular in the west. Though authorship is attributed to Sun Tzu (Master Sun), many scholars believe the bulk of the text was written by his descendant Sun Bin, who lived some hundred years later. Its... Read more

Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Narrated by: Phil Paonessa

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1834, Ralph Waldo Emerson, formerly a Unitarian minister, began a new career as a public lecturer. Many of those lectures formed the source material for his essays. Nature (1836), his first published work, contained the essence of his transcendental philosophy, which involved viewing the world of natural phenomena as a symbol of the inner... Read more

Gifts

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Narrated by: Phil Paonessa

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

In Gifts Ralph Waldo Emerson muses on the function of and expectations surrounding the giving of gifs. He touches on what gifts communicate about the nature of the giver and receiver, and how the best kind of gift is a gift of love. Read more

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

By: Henry David Thoreau

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

Thoreau's Civil Disobedience - his protest against the government's interference with civil liberty - has inspired many to embrace his philosophy of individualism and love of nature. First published in 1849, this essay argues that individuals have rights and duties in relation to their government. Motivated by his disgust over both slavery and... Read more