Philosophy audiobooks

From What Is to What If

By: Rob Hopkins

Narrated by: Rob Hopkins

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

“Big ideas that just might save the world”—The Guardian The founder of the international Transition Towns movement asks why true creative, positive thinking is in decline, asserts that it's more important now than ever, and suggests ways our communities can revive and reclaim it. In these times of deep division and deeper despair, if there is... Read more

Why Liberalism Works

By: Deirdre Nansen McCloskey

Narrated by: Janet Metzger

Length: 14 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

An insightful and passionately written book explaining why a return to Enlightenment ideals is good for the world

The greatest challenges facing humankind, according to Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, are poverty and tyranny, both of which hold people back. Arguing for a return to true liberal values, this engaging and accessible book develops,... Read more

Filosofía para principiantes

By: Timo Kaschner

Narrated by: Juliana Velez

Length: 2 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Filosofía para principiantes: Introducción a la filosofía - historia y significado, direcciones filosóficas básicas y métodosSobre el sentido de la vida y del hombre¿Te interesa la filosofía?¿Conoces a los grandes pensadores filosóficos y qué filosofías representan?¿Sabes en que se diferencian las diversas direcciones filosóficas básicas?Aprende... Read more

Outgrowing God

By: Richard Dawkins

Narrated by: Richard Dawkins

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Should we believe in God? In this brisk introduction to modern atheism, one of the world’s greatest science writers tells us why we shouldn’t.

Richard Dawkins was fifteen when he stopped believing in God. 

Deeply impressed by the beauty and complexity of living things, he’d felt certain they must have had a designer. Learning about evolution... Read more

The Tao Te Ching

By: Joseph Lumpkin & Lao Tzu

Narrated by: Dennis Logan

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The Tao Te Ching was written by a man referred to as Lao Tzu. The unknown author’s name means both "the old philosopher" and "the old philosophy." Hence Lao Tzu may also be the title for the book or the name or title of the author.Lao Tzu lived in ancient China and was the keeper of the Imperial Library. Legends tell us he was famous for his... Read more

Living Neverland

By: Wendell Charles Ne Smith

Narrated by: Wendell Charles Ne Smith

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Wendell battles to the heart of all of the problems in society and teaches his lost children how to defeat Hook and his evil mind controlling pirates. Each wrinkle infused into our skin paints a picture into our past and the actions of our present then directs the shape of their future. A frown will eventually infuse into old age and the... Read more

Nonconformity

By: Nelson Algren

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The struggle to write with deep emotion is the subject of this extraordinary book, the previously unpublished credo of one of America’s greatest twentieth-century writers.“You don’t write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich,” writes Nelson Algren in his only longer work of nonfiction, adding:... Read more

Stillness Is the Key

By: Ryan Holiday

Narrated by: Ryan Holiday

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller & Wall Street Journal Bestseller

In The Obstacle Is the Way and Ego Is the Enemy, bestselling author Ryan Holiday made ancient wisdom wildly popular with a new generation of leaders in sports, politics, and technology. In his new book, Stillness Is the Key, Holiday draws on timeless Stoic and Buddhist... Read more

Artificial You

By: Susan Schneider

Narrated by: Katherine Fenton

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

"Entertaining and profound."—Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal
Hailed by the Washington Post as "a sure-footed and witty guide to slippery ethical terrain."
This audiobook narrated by Katherine Fenton take you on a philosophical exploration of AI and the future of the mind

Humans may not be Earth’s most intelligent beings for much longer: the world... Read more

The Fire Is upon Us

By: Nicholas Buccola

Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi

Length: 14 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

"A great read."—Whoopi Goldberg, The View

Prentice Onayemi narrates the story of how the clash between the civil rights firebrand and the father of modern conservatism continues to illuminate America's racial divide

This audiobook includes as a bonus feature the original audio recording of the Cambridge Union debate

On February 18, 1965, an... Read more

Discourse on Metaphysics, On the Ultimate Origin of Things and Other Principal Essays

By: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Narrated by: Charles Armstrong

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

This Leibniz collection contains some of the philosopher's most important works and ideas, spans three decades and illuminates the fascinating intellectual journey undertaken by him in his quest for truth.

A prodigious polymath, Leibniz was a mathematician, philosopher, physicist and statesman and engaged with a sweeping range of ideas and... Read more

The Prince

By: Niccolo Machiavelli

Narrated by: Simon Callow

Length: 3 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

This Penguin Classic is performed by Simon Callow, actor and director, known for his roles in Four Weddings and a Funeral, Shakespeare in Love, and the BBC adaptation of A Christmas Carol.


As a diplomat in turbulent fifteenth-century Florence, Niccolò Machiavelli knew how quickly political fortunes could rise and fall.... Read more

Meditations

By: Marcus Aurelius

Narrated by: Richard Armitage

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

This Penguin Classic is performed by Richard Armitage, star of Peter Jackson'sThe Hobbit trilogy and also known for his roles in Ocean's 8 and Spooks. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Diskin Clay.

Originally written only for his personal consumption, Marcus Aurelius's Meditations has become a key... Read more

The Book of Tea

By: Kakuzo Okakura

Narrated by: Sadao Ueda

Length: 2 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin

This Penguin Classic is performed by Japanese actor Sadao Ueda, known for his appearances in Spectre, London has Fallen and What We Did on Our Holiday.


For a generation adjusting painfully to the demands of a modern industrial and commercial society, Asia came to represent an alternative vision of the good life:... Read more

The Great Awakening

By: Wendell Charles Ne Smith

Narrated by: Wendell Charles Ne Smith

Length: 4 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A time like no other is upon us as artificial intelligence grows. The time will soon come where humanioid robots roam among us that are indistiguishable from a human. The time for warning bells is now as we leap into the ethical ramifications of such development as well as the sociological impact such involvements will result. We must be ready... Read more

The Communist Manifesto

By: Friedrich Engels & Karl Marx

Narrated by: Arinze Kene

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

This Penguin Classic is performed by Arinzé Kene, writer and performer of Olivier Award nominated Misty, and also known for his roles in Youngers, Informer and Eastenders. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Gareth Stedman Jones.


The Communist Manifesto (1848), Marx and Engels's revolutionary summons... Read more

Letters from a Stoic

By: Seneca

Narrated by: Julian Glover

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

This Penguin Classic is performed by Julian Glover, Olivier Award winning actor, also known for his roles in Game of Thrones and Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Robin Campbell.


A philosophy that saw self-possession as the key to an existence lived 'in... Read more

Philosophy for Beginners

By: Timo Kaschner

Narrated by: James McLeod

Length: 1 hour 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Philosophy for Beginners: Introduction to philosophy - history and meaning, basic philosophical directions and methodsOn the meaning of life and manAre you interested in philosophy?Do you know the great philosophical thinkers and philosophies they represent?Do you know what the basic philosophical directions are?Learn more about great... Read more

How to Be an Epicurean

By: Catherine Wilson

Narrated by: Ana Clements

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A leading philosopher shows that if the pursuit of happiness is the question, Epicureanism is the answer
Epicureanism has a reputation problem, bringing to mind gluttons with gout or an admonition to eat, drink, and be merry. In How to Be an Epicurean, philosopher Catherine Wilson shows that Epicureanism isn't an excuse for having a good time:... Read more

This Is Water: Booktrack Edition

By: David Foster Wallace

Narrated by: Amy Wallace & David Foster Wallace

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

This Is Water: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! *
Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement address given in 2005 at Kenyon College. The speech is reprinted for the first time in book form in THIS IS WATER. How does one keep... Read more

Radical Hope

By: Jonathan Lear

Narrated by: Paul Heitsch

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Shortly before he died, Plenty Coups, the last great Chief of the Crow Nation, told his story—up to a certain point. "When the buffalo went away the hearts of my people fell to the ground," he said, "and they could not lift them up again. After this nothing happened."

It is precisely this point—that of a people faced with the end of their way... Read more

Pouvoir Du Sacrifice

By: Gabriel Agbo

Narrated by: Stevy Daic Ndjala Totolo

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Les sacrifices sont puissants. Très puissants! L’homme le plus riche, l`homme le plus fort, l`homme et la femme les plus bénis, le plus sage, les plus grands rois, les prophètes les plus puissants étaient tous des hommes et femmes de sacrifice. Ils ont tout donné, tout risqué pour leur peuple, l`humanité et Dieu afin d`atteindre leurs objectifs... Read more

Philosophy

By: Ferdinand Jives

Narrated by: Zach Loving & Alasdair Cunningham

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The 7 books you'll find in this bundle are these:
David Hume - David Hume was a Scottish philosopher and historian. He was also known for his essays and economic analyses. He supported empiricism, skepticism, and naturalism in his own little way, which shed light on life and reasoning in a distinct manner he has propagated in various, ethical... Read more

Philosophy

By: Ferdinand Jives

Narrated by: Zach Loving & Alasdair Cunningham

Length: 3 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a bundle of 3 books:
Plato - Hear about the man on which a great portion of Western philosophy itself is based. He founded one of the first organized academies in Western civilization. His standings on life and perceptions have been quoted and referred to worldwide for centuries, as well as his main student, Aristotle. He wrote about... Read more