Philosophy audiobooks

The Dhammapada

By: Friedrich Max Müller

Narrated by: Denis Daly

Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Neither the date nor the authorship of the Dhammapada is known, but there is conclusive evidence that this monument of the Buddhist canon existed well before the Christian era. Many scholars agree in ascribing its utterances to Buddha himself, while others are of the opinion that it is a compilation made by Buddhist monks from various... Read more

Adán y el árbol de la Kabbalah

By: Z'ev Ben Shimon Halevi

Narrated by: Sergio Rüed

Length: 15 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Adán y el Árbol de la Kabbalah es un estudio del ser humano desde la perspectiva de los kabbalistas del mundo actual. Con excepcional claridad y maestría, Z'ev ben Shimon Halevi explica en esta obra la herramienta mística de la Kabbalah conoci-da como "Árbol de la Vida", y describe con un lenguaje sencillo el modo en el que operan los principios... Read more

El trabajo del Kabbalista

By: Z'ev Ben Shimon Halevi

Narrated by: Bobby Sánchez

Length: 12 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

El trabajo del Kabbalista, Z'ev ben Shimón Halevi pone a nuestro alcance el conocimiento esotérico antiguo y lo explica con lujo de detalle. Alcanzar el conocimiento de los mundos superiores y desarrollar nuestra habilidad para atraer su sustancia y su poder es el arte práctico del método cabalístico. No basta con desear, concebir, dar forma y... Read more

Éxodo y Kabbalah

By: Z'ev Ben Shimon Halevi

Narrated by: Sergio Alberto Bustos de la Tijera

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Esta obra muestra cómo los relatos bíblicos, talmúdicos y kabbalísticos sobre el viaje de los israelitas revelan las etapas internas de iniciación, prueba y rebelión que condujeron a comprender el secreto de la existencia como espejo en que el individuo refleja la imagen de la divinidad. Desde esta perspectiva el Éxodo resulta una analogía... Read more

Aghora I: At the Left Hand of God

By: Dr. Robert Svoboda

Narrated by: Dr. Robert Svoboda

Length: 11 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The first book in the Aghora trilogy containing the teachings of Dr. Svoboda’s mentor, the Aghori Vimalananda. Written almost entirely in Vimalananda’s own words, it presents events from his life, tenets of his philosophy, and highlights from his spiritual practices. Designed partly to shock and partly to comfort, but wholly as an offering to... Read more

Critical Path

By: R. Buckminster Fuller & Kiyoshi Kuromiya

Narrated by: Alister Austin

Length: 15 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

R. Buckminster Fuller is regarded as one of the most important figures of the 20th century, renowned for his achievements as an inventor, designer, architect, philosopher, mathematician, and dogged individualist. Perhaps best remembered for the Geodesic Dome and the term "Spaceship Earth," his work and his writings have had a profound impact on... Read more

Education for Critical Consciousness

By: Paulo Freire

Narrated by: Patrick Edison

Length: 4 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Famous for his advocacy of 'critical pedagogy', Paulo Freire was Latin America's foremost educationalist, a thinker and writer whose work and ideas continue to exert enormous influence in education throughout the world today. Education for Critical Consciousness is the main statement of Freire's revolutionary method of education. It takes the... Read more

Reasons and Persons

By: Derek Parfit

Narrated by: Peter Batchelor

Length: 29 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Challenging, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity, Parfit claims that we have a false view about our own nature. It is often rational to act against our own best interests, he argues, and most of us have moral views that are self-defeating. We often act wrongly, although... Read more

Recollections

By: Viktor E. Frankl

Narrated by: S. D. Cousins

Length: 2 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Born in 1905 in the center of the crumbling Austro-Hungarian Empire, Viktor Frankl was a witness to the great political, philosophical, and scientific upheavals of the twentieth century. In these stirring recollections, Frankl describes how as a young doctor of neurology in prewar Vienna his disagreements with Freud and Adler led to the... Read more

The Conscious Mind

By: David J. Chalmers

Narrated by: George Cunningham

Length: 23 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

What is consciousness? How do physical processes in the brain give rise to the self-aware mind and to feelings as profoundly varied as love or hate, aesthetic pleasure or spiritual yearning? These questions today are among the most hotly debated issues among scientists and philosophers, and we
have seen in recent years superb volumes by such... Read more

The Fundamentals of Ethics

By: Russ Shafer-Landau

Narrated by: Jason Leikam

Length: 15 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Fundamentals of Ethics, Fifth Edition, author Russ Shafer-Landau employs a uniquely engaging writing style to introduce students to the essential ideas of moral philosophy. Offering more comprehensive coverage of the good life, normative ethics, and metaethics than any other text of its
kind, this book also addresses issues that are often... Read more

The Sociological Imagination

By: C. Wright Mills

Narrated by: Adriel Brandt

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

C. Wright Mills is best remembered for his highly acclaimed work The Sociological Imagination, in which he set forth his views on how social science should be pursued. Hailed upon publication as a cogent and hard-hitting critique, The Sociological Imagination took issue with the ascendant schools of sociology in the United States, calling for a... Read more

To Have or To Be?

By: Erich Fromm

Narrated by: Adriel Brandt

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

To Have Or to Be? is one of the seminal books of the second half of the 20th century. Nothing less than a manifesto for a new social and psychological revolution to save our threatened planet, this book is a summary of the penetrating thought of Eric Fromm. His thesis is that two modes of existence struggle for the spirit of humankind: the... Read more

What Does It All Mean?

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

What Color Is Goodness?

By: Emily Morrison

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspired by the question of her cartwheeling five-year-old niece, “Emmy, What Color is Goodness?,” this poem was written to help readers find goodness in the most unexpected places.First-time author EMILY MORRISON offers a vision of kindness, acceptance, and understanding in unsettled times within this beautiful poem, featuring the delightful... Read more

How Risky Is It, Really?

By: David Ropeik

Narrated by: TJ Johnson

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

"Clear, balanced, and lively." -- Steven Pinker, bestselling author of How the Mind Works
ARE YOU AFRAID OF THE "RIGHT" RISKS?

Do you worry more about radiation from nuclear power or from the sun?

Are you more afraid of getting cancer than heart disease?

Are you safer talking on your cell phone or using a hands-free device when you drive?

Do you... Read more

The Way of Nagomi

By: Ken Mogi

Narrated by: Susan Momoko Hingley

Length: 3 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Find balance and peace in every moment



Life is ephemeral and ever-changing; in Japan, it's called ukiyo—"floating world." How can we adapt to its fluctuations without being overcome? The answer is nagomi: a philosophy of balance—and the secret to a harmonious life. Neuroscientist Ken Mogi shares wisdom from Japanese history and culture to explain... Read more

The Feminist Killjoy Handbook

By: Sara Ahmed

Narrated by: Sara Ahmed

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A renowned feminist thinker argues we need to get in the way of happiness, our own and other people’s, to build a more just world  Do you refuse to laugh at offensive jokes? Have you ever been accused of ruining dinner by pointing out your companion’s sexist comment? Are you often told to stop being so “woke”? If so, you might be a feminist... Read more

Determined

By: Robert M. Sapolsky

Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith

Length: 13 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The instant New York Times bestseller

“Excellent…Outstanding for its breadth of research, the liveliness of the writing, and the depth of humanity it conveys.” – Wall Street Journal

One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the science and philosophy of decision-making to mount a devastating... Read more

La méthode qui change une vie de souffrance en bonheur

By: Lama Zopa Rinpoché

Narrated by: Catherine Cipan & Axel Polin

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Dans cette pratique essentielle, Lama Zopa Rinpoché a soigneusement compilé les méditations, prières et pratiques dont nous avons besoin pour bien débuter notre journée afin de transformer notre esprit en la motivation de bodhicitta pour cette vie et toutes les vies futures. Read more

El estoicismo: un camino hacia la felicidad y la serenidad

By: Juanjo Ramos

Narrated by: Juanjo Ramos

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

¿Alguna vez has sentido que la vida es incierta e impredecible? (Bueno, quizás es por que lo es) ¿Has experimentado la tristeza, el miedo o la frustración y te has preguntado cómo superar estos sentimientos? ¿Estás buscando una guía para vivir una vida significativa y satisfactoria? Si es así, entonces el estoicismo es para ti.
El estoicismo es... Read more

The Yellow Pad

By: Robert E. Rubin

Narrated by: Fred Melamed & Robert E. Rubin

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Robert Rubin, former secretary of the Treasury and co-chairman of Goldman Sachs, shares thoughts on decision-making developed over more than six decades in markets, business, government, and politics, and offers readers an astute and original guide for navigating uncertain times

In 1958, as a college sophomore, Robert Rubin took a class that... Read more

World Brain

By: H.G Wells

Narrated by: Graham Dunlop

Length: 4 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

World Brain is a collection of essays and addresses by the English science fiction pioneer, social reformer, evolutionary biologist and historian H. G. Wells, dating from the period of 1936–1938. Throughout the book, Wells describes his vision of the World Brain: a new, free, synthetic, authoritative, permanent "World Encyclopaedia" that could... Read more

The Man In My Head Has Lost His Mind (What Makes Us Conscious?)

By: Carter Blakelaw

Narrated by: Jack Calverley

Length: 2 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The howl of the bedside clock-radio carves through your dreams like a buzz-saw through butter, and you are awake. In another place.
Never mind the bright yellow sunlight that flecks your pillow and warms your face; you are rudely awake, and resent it. Gah!
You roll onto your side, cantilever your legs over the side of the bed and plant your feet... Read more