Philosophy audiobooks

Philosophy

By: Ferdinand Jives

Narrated by: Alasdair Cunningham

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

This book consists of 4 titles:
John Locke - Although considered as a pure politician and idealist by some, John Locke’s philosophical views on life have inspired many to take a step back and reassess the nature of governments, property, and human rights. He was an advocate of freedom and liberty. His influence cannot be underestimated when... Read more

Ruusualttari

By: Edith Södergran

Narrated by: Ritva-Liisa Elivuo

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

"Oi minun satulinnani, sortukaa, sortukaa kultaiseksi soraksi. Rakastan teitä liian paljon – kuolkaa. Rakennan teidät jälleen vavisten surmatakseni teidät – liian ihanat." Edith Södergranin runot vievät lukijat unenomaiseen mielentilaan, jossa kaikki ei ole sitä, miltä näyttää. Kohtalokkaat runot julistavat symboliikan avulla väkeviä... Read more

Philosophy

By: Ferdinand Jives

Narrated by: Alasdair Cunningham & Zach Loving

Length: 2 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The 2 books contained in this audiobook are: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... Read more

Ruusualttari

By: Edith Södergran

Narrated by: Ritva-Liisa Elivuo

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

"Oi minun satulinnani,sortukaa, sortukaakultaiseksi soraksi.Rakastan teitä liian paljon – kuolkaa.Rakennan teidät jälleenvavistensurmatakseni teidät – liian ihanat."Edith Södergranin runot vievät lukijat unenomaiseen mielentilaan, jossa kaikki ei ole sitä, miltä näyttää. Kohtalokkaat runot julistavat symboliikan avulla väkeviä tunteita.... Read more

Stoicism

By: Roman Stephenson

Narrated by: Tyler McGuire

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: No

Do you ever feel like you aren’t in control of your emotions? Are you looking for moral guidance that can help you achieve the best for yourself? Then keep reading...Whenever we ask ourselves how to face a challenge, or simply how to be happy, we are actually asking ourselves how to best lead our lives. But where can we find valid answers in... Read more

La rebelión de Atlas

By: Ayn Rand

Narrated by: Arturo López

Length: 69 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

LA ECONOMÍA DE ESTADOS UNIDOS SE ENCUENTRA EN ruinas. Las empresas cierran, en las tiendas es imposible encontrar los productos básicos y la población empieza a perder la esperanza en recuperar la prosperidad y la autonomía. La respuesta del gobierno es aumentar cada vez más las regulaciones, el control de cualquier actividad y el... Read more

ESSENTIALISM

By: Quinto Greco

Narrated by: Mathew Pietri

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

"The pursuit of happiness lies in the desire for less".The more you have, the happier you are, right? If that were true, then why is there still this unsettling sensation that there’s something missing from your life? Why, in fact, do you continue to want more? If you have everything you think you need right now, technically, you should be... Read more

Falacias Lógicas: ¿Comete errores al razonar?

By: Scott Lovell

Narrated by: Ernesto Tissot

Length: 2 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Si desea evitar hacer el ridículo continúe leyendo…“Todos discuten; pero no todos saben discutir”.Esta frase es increíblemente precisa. Como sabe, las falacias lógicas están en todas partes. Se pueden utilizar para manipular a las personas o para modificar un debate, descarriándolo desde el primer momento.Este libro le brindará las herramientas... Read more

Effortless Living

By: Jason Gregory

Narrated by: Jason Gregory

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A guide for achieving an enlightened mind through the art of non-doing

• Details meditation practices, focused on stillness of the mind, along with Patanjali’s yoga methods to maintain a consciousness referred to as “being in the zone”

• Builds on Taoist, Confucian, and Hindu principles along with scientific findings to support wu-wei--the art... Read more

Moving Up without Losing Your Way

By: Jennifer Morton

Narrated by: Chloe Cannon

Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Upward mobility through the path of higher education has been an article of faith for generations of working-class, low-income, and immigrant college students. While we know this path usually entails financial sacrifices and hard work, very little attention has been paid to the deep personal compromises such students have to make as they enter... Read more

The Soul of Care

By: Arthur Kleinman

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A moving memoir and an extraordinary love story that shows how an expert physician became a family caregiver and learned why care is so central to all our lives and yet is at risk in today's world.

When Dr. Arthur Kleinman, an eminent Harvard psychiatrist and social anthropologist, began caring for his wife, Joan, after she was diagnosed with... Read more

Botschaft an die Menschheit (Ungekürzt)

By: Chief Seattle

Narrated by: Marcel Zehnder

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Die legendäre Rede des Häuptlings Seattle von 1854 an den Präsidenten der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika - ein visionäres Plädoyer für den Schutz der Umwelt und der Erde. Read more

Chasing My Cure

By: David Fajgenbaum

Narrated by: David Fajgenbaum

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

LOS ANGELES TIMES AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER • The powerful memoir of a young doctor and former college athlete diagnosed with a rare disease who spearheaded the search for a cure—and became a champion for a new approach to medical research.

“A wonderful and moving chronicle of a doctor’s relentless pursuit, this book serves both patients... Read more

A Decent Life

By: Todd May

Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

In a world full of suffering and deprivation, it's easy to despair—and it's also easy to judge ourselves for not doing more. Even if we gave away everything we own and devoted ourselves to good works, it wouldn't solve all the world's problems. It would make them better, though. So is that what we have to do? Is anything less a moral failure?... Read more

A Mindful Year

By: Dr. Aria Campbell-Danesh & Seth J. Gillihan PhD

Narrated by: Dr. Aria Campbell-Danesh & Seth J. Gillihan PhD

Length: 12 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Written by two experts in the field of cognitive behavioral therapy—the best tested set of practices for alleviating stress and anxiety—these daily meditations invite you to find contentment, peace, and happiness in place of worry and fear.Each day’s reading reveals how the powerful tool of mindfulness can help you to become more grounded,... Read more

What It Means to Be Moral

By: Phil Zuckerman

Narrated by: Paul Brion

Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of Living the Secular Life deconstructs the arguments for a morality informed by religion, urging that major challenges like global warming and growing inequality are best approached from a framework of secular morality.

In What It Means to Be Moral: Why Religion Is Not Necessary for Living an Ethical Life, Phil Zuckerman argues... Read more

Mengzi

By: Bryan W. Van Norden

Narrated by: Bryan W. Van Norden

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The Mengzi is one of the very greatest works of world literature and philosophy, and it is perhaps the single most influential Confucian text of all time.

Of all the Confucian classics, it is also the one most likely to speak to a contemporary audience. The Mengzi contains the dialogues, debates and sayings of Mengzi, a Confucian sage of the... Read more

Free Will Explained

By: Dan Barker

Narrated by: Dan Barker

Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A compelling essay on free will from an internationally recognized authority on atheism, and author of God: The Most Unpleasant Character in All Fiction.Do we have free will? And if we don’t, why do we feel as if we do? In a godless universe governed by impersonal laws of cause and effect, are you responsible for your actions? Former evangelical... Read more

Walden and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

By: Henry David Thoreau

Narrated by: Glen Read

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

'Walden' is the most famous publication by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. In it, he reflects on the nature around him, while living in a cabin surrounded by woods near Concord, Massachusetts. In 'On the Duty of Civil Disobedience', Thoreau discusses that citizens ought to maintain their senses of wisdom and justice, regardless... Read more

How to Justify Torture

By: Alex Adams

Narrated by: Antony Ferguson

Length: 3 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

From Batman Begins to Tom Clancy, How to Justify Torture shows how contemporary culture creates simplified narratives about good guy torturers and bad guy victims, how dangerous this is politically, and what we can do to challenge it.The ticking bomb scenario is a thought experiment designed to demonstrate that torture can be justified in... Read more

Nihilism

By: Nolen Gertz

Narrated by: Shaun Grindell

Length: 4 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

When someone is labeled a nihilist, it's not usually meant as a compliment. Most of us associate nihilism with destructiveness and violence. Nihilism means, literally, "an ideology of nothing." Is nihilism, then, believing in nothing? Or is it the belief that life is nothing? Or the belief that the beliefs we have amount to nothing? If we can... Read more

Civil Disobedience

By: Henry David Thoreau

Narrated by: Philip Ray

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

In the essay ‘Civil Disobedience’ (1849), Henry David Thoreau contends that an individual should not allow the government to overrule their conscience, and that it is incumbent upon every one to avoid acquiescence when the government attempts to make one an agent of injustice. It is thought that his motivation for writing the essay was, at least... Read more

El arte de la guerra

By: Sun Tzu

Narrated by: Max Garzón

Length: 1 hour 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Gratis por lanzamiento-En español latino, narración humana-Es un libro sobre tácticas y estrategias militares, escrito por Sun Tzu («Maestro Sun»), un famoso estratega militar chino. Se trata de un antiguo tratado militar chino que data del final del periodo de las primaveras y otoños (aproximadamente del siglo v a. C.). La obra consta de trece... Read more

Philosophy

By: Ferdinand Jives

Narrated by: Zach Loving & Alasdair Cunningham

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

This bundle contains the following titles:
Thomas Aquinas: Powerful Quotes, Fun Facts, and Historical BackgroundErasmus: Theology and Political Views from a Dutch PhilosopherDavid Hume: Understanding His Philosophical Works and LifeImmanuel Kant: The Famous, Intellectual Philosopher from GermanyStoicism: Guide to the Art of Ancient Stoic Philosophy Read more