Philosophy audiobooks

El Arte de Ser Feliz

By: Arthur Schopenhauer

Narrated by: Artur Mas

Length: 2 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

AMA Audiolibros presenta la Narración en Español (acento Castellano) a cargo de Artur Mas de: El arte de ser feliz, explicado en 50 reglas para la vida. Este es el título de una serie de artículos que escribió el filósofo alemán Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), recopilados y posteriormente publicados. A diferencia de "El arte de tener razón",... Read more

Kinds of Minds

By: Daniel C. Dennett

Narrated by: Daniel Henning

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Combining ideas from philosophy, artificial intelligence, and neurobiology, Daniel Dennett leads the reader on a fascinating journey of inquiry, exploring such intriguing possibilities as: Can any of us really know what is going on in someone else's mind? What distinguishes the human mind from the minds of animals, especially those capable of... Read more

La vida también se piensa

By: Miquel Seguró

Narrated by: Caridad Rodríguez Santiago

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

¡Así que tú te dedicas a la filosofía! Con esta afirmación comienza este itinerario filosófico personal que Miquel Seguró convierte en una original invitación a la filosofía. A partir de siete tópicos contrafilosóficos ("la filosofía no sirve para nada"; "para qué pensar tanto si al final todos morimos"; "la ciencia lo acabará explicando... Read more

Clear Bright Future

By: Paul Mason

Narrated by: Finlay Robertson

Length: 13 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Clear Bright Future by Paul Mason, read by Finlay Robertson.

Our world order is under pressure as never before. From new authoritarian regimes in the US, Turkey and Russia, to the imminent break-up of the European Union and a social media awash with intolerance, things look set to fall apart just as... Read more

Instructions for Spiritual Living

By: Paul Brunton

Narrated by: Micah Hanks

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Answers to the questions that arise on the spiritual path

• Includes specially selected writings from the huge literary archive of Paul Brunton

• Explains the different stages of meditation and the obstacles likely to arise for each, offering guidance for achieving advanced states of meditation to deepen one’s inner life

• Challenges the need... Read more

Objection

By: Debra Lieberman & Carlton Patrick

Narrated by: Matthew Josdal

Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Why do we consider incest wrong, even when it occurs between consenting adults unable to have children? Why are words that gross us out more likely to be deemed "obscene" and denied the protection of the First Amendment?

In Objection, psychologists Debra Lieberman and Carlton Patrick examine disgust and its impact on the legal system to show... Read more

Buddhism

By: Joan Duncan Oliver

Narrated by: Joan Duncan Oliver & Juanita Rockwell

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

This program includes an introduction read by the author.

A modern guide to the teachings of Buddhism.

Buddhism: An Introduction to the Buddha’s Life, Teachings, and Practices is an indispensable guide to a 2,600-year-old wisdom tradition that has transformed the lives of millions across centuries and around the world. Readers will learn how... Read more

Wish I Were Here

By: Mark Kingwell

Narrated by: Adam Lofbomm

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Are you bored of the endless scroll of your social media feed? Do you swipe left before considering the human being whose face you just summarily rejected? Do you skim articles on your screen in search of intellectual stimulation that never arrives? If so, this book is the philosophical lifeline you have been waiting for. Offering a timely... Read more

Le manuel d'Épictète

By: Épictète

Narrated by: Grégoire Orowitz

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Compilé par Arrien, cet ouvrage résume la doctrine du philosophe stoïcien Épictète. Avec ceux de Sénèque et Marc Aurèle, ce manuel est l'un des principaux textes de la doctrine stoïcienne. Nous y apprenons par exemple que le chemin vers le bonheur dépend de notre capacité à ne pas se soucier de ce qui ne dépend pas de nous.À l'inverse, il... Read more

Mastering Logical Fallacies

By: Michael Withey

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 4 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Your argument is valid and you know it; yet once again you find yourself leaving a debate feeling defeated and embarrassed. The matter is only made worse when you realize that your defeat came at the hands of someone's abuse of logic—and that with the right skills you could have won the argument.



The ability to recognize logical fallacies when... Read more

Selections from Parerga and Paralipomena

By: Arthur Schopenhauer

Narrated by: Leighton Pugh

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Volume 2 of Parerga and Paralipomena has a very different character from Volume 1.

There are, in total, 31 Essays, 24 of which are presented here. The range of topics is very varied, opening with 'On Philosophy and Its Method' and including 'On Pantheism', 'On Ethics', 'On Jurisprudence', 'On Men of Learning', 'On Thinking for Oneself', 'On... Read more

Vices of the Mind

By: Quassim Cassam

Narrated by: Matthew Waterson

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Epistemic vices are character traits, attitudes, or thinking styles that prevent us from gaining, keeping, or sharing knowledge. In this book, Quassim Cassam gives an account of the nature and importance of these vices, which include closed-mindedness, intellectual arrogance, wishful thinking, and prejudice. In providing the first extensive... Read more

Selections from Parerga and Paralipomena

By: Arthur Schopenhauer

Narrated by: David Rintoul & Leighton Pugh

Length: 15 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The two sizeable volumes of Parerga and Paralipomena hold a special place in the output of Arthur Schopenhauer.

Parerga means 'supplementary to a main work', and Paralipomena suggests a further supplement, but these two books were anything but a casual addition to his major opus, The World as Will and Idea. For a start, it was the publication of... Read more

Hagakure

By: Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Narrated by: Tim Campbell

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The comprehensive and accurate edition of the Hagakure is a must-have for serious martial artists or fans of samurai and the bushido code.

The Hagakure is one of the most influential of all Japanese texts—written nearly 300 years ago by Yamamoto Tsunetomo to summarize the very essence of the Japanese Samurai bushido ("warrior") spirit. Its... Read more

Good Life, Good Death

By: Nawang Gelek Rimpoche

Narrated by: Brian Nishii

Length: 4 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Who are we? Where did we come from? Where are we going? How do we get there? Many have asked these questions, and many have attempted to answer them. But there is another question Good Life, Good Death asks us to contemplate: How does the idea of life after death affect how we live our lives?Gelek Rimpoche tells stories of the mystical Tibet he... Read more

A Lot of People Are Saying

By: Nancy L. Rosenblum & Russell Muirhead

Narrated by: Katherine Fenton

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook narrated by Katherine Fenton reveals how the new conspiracists are undermining democracy—and explains what can be done about it

Conspiracy theories are as old as politics. But conspiracists today have introduced something new—conspiracy without theory. And the new conspiracism has moved from the fringes to the heart of government... Read more

Nervous States

By: William Davies

Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell

Length: 11 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In this sweeping and provocative work, political economist William Davies draws on a four-hundred-year history of ideas to reframe our understanding of the contemporary world. He argues that global trends decades and even centuries in the making have reduced a world of logic and fact into one driven by emotions—particularly fear and anxiety.... Read more

Being Logical

By: D.Q. McInerny

Narrated by: Al Kessel

Length: 3 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Logic is synonymous with reason, judgment, sense, wisdom, and sanity. Being logical is the ability to create concise and reasoned arguments—arguments that build from given premises, using evidence, to a genuine conclusion. But mastering logical thinking also requires studying and understanding illogical thinking, both to sharpen one's own skills... Read more

Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us

By: Simon Critchley

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

From the moderator of The New York Times philosophy blog "The Stone," a book that argues that if we want to understand ourselves we have to go back to theater, to the stage of our lives

Tragedy presents a world of conflict and troubling emotion, a world where private and public lives collide and collapse. A world where morality is ambiguous and... Read more

The Second Mountain

By: David Brooks

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 12 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Everybody tells you to live for a cause larger than yourself, but how exactly do you do it? The author of The Road to Character explores what it takes to lead a meaningful life in a self-centered world.

“Deeply moving, frequently eloquent and extraordinarily incisive.”—The Washington Post

Every so often, you meet... Read more

Quelques réflexions sur les origines de l'hitlérisme

By: Simone Weil

Narrated by: Grégoire Orowitz

Length: 2 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

La montée du nazisme et les horreurs du régime véhiculé par Adolf Hitler avaient-ils des antécédents dans l'histoire ? De qui s'est-il inspiré ? Dans quelle mesure, par exemple, la Rome antique fut-elle un modèle pour le Führer ? Simone Weil soumet plusieurs pistes de réflexions qui visent à percevoir ici un ensemble de mécanismes dont elle... Read more

Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

By: Marcus Aurelius

Narrated by: Ron Welch

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Meditations is a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor from 161 to 180 AD, recording his private notes to himself and ideas on Stoic philosophy.
Marcus Aurelius wrote the 12 books of the Meditations in Greek as a source for his own guidance and self-improvement. It is unlikely that Marcus Aurelius ever intended the... Read more

We Are Not Who We “Think” We Are

By: Kate Gustin, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Gustin explores how we create our personal myths. This begins when, as toddlers, we start to use language. Our thoughts do a great job of defining us as a discrete individual with a particular narrative about who we think we are but this can contribute to a negative self-concept. She emphasizes the concept of “selfing” as an on-going process... Read more

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg: Aus den Sudelbüchern

By: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Narrated by: Sven Görtz

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Lichtenberg war Physiker und Mathematiker, aber der Nachwelt ist er bestens in Erinnerung geblieben durch seine "Sudelbücher", in denen er Gedanken, Satiren, aber auch Witziges aphoristisch formulierte. Read more