Philosophy audiobooks

El arte de la buena vida

By: Rolf Dobelli

Narrated by: Pepe Granados

Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Desde la Antigüedad, la gente se ha preguntado qué significa vivir una buena vida. ¿Cómo debo vivir? ¿Qué rol juega el destino? ¿O el dinero? ¿Es la felicidad un estado mental, o se trata más bien de alcanzar ciertas metas? ¿Es mejor buscar la felicidad o solo evitar la infelicidad?  Las respuestas son siempre decepcionantes. ¿Por qué? Porque el... Read more

A Way of Being

By: Carl R. Rogers

Narrated by: Joe Hempel

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A profound and deeply personal collection of essays by renowned psychologist Carl Rogers.

The late Carl Rogers, founder of the humanistic psychology movement and father of client-centered therapy, based his life's work on his fundamental belief in the human potential for growth. A Way of Being was written in the early 1980s, near the end of... Read more

Untimely Meditations

By: Friedrich Nietzsche

Narrated by: Michael Lunts

Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Untimely Considerations contain four essays: 'David Strauss - Writer and Confessor'; 'On the Use and Abuse of History for Life'; 'Schopenhauer as Educator'; and 'Richard Wagner at Bayreuth'.

The essays date from the early part of Nietzsche's life when his Romantic view on life and art was coloured by the powerful writings and personalities of... Read more

Chakras

By: Amy White

Narrated by: Robin Shrock

Length: 3 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Are you feeling stuck in a rut? Spinning your wheels in the mud, directionless, daunted by the darkness of this world, uncertain of your future? Do you want to heal yourself, to find a center and a spiritual balance? Do you just want to know what, exactly, are chakras and third eye? If any of these cases rings true, then this two-audiobook... Read more

Mad Monk Manifesto

By: Yun Rou

Narrated by: Edward Bauer

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Change The World By Changing YourselfFind answers: Today, it’s easy to get outraged by world events, frustrated by our own personal battles, and disenfranchised from government and leadership. Born of moral indignation, informed by decades of study, and seasoned by a life of devoted self-cultivation, Monk Yun Rou’s Mad Monk Manifesto has the... Read more

Becoming Warriors for The Human Spirit

By: Margaret Wheatley

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Every living system goes through a life cycle: birth, creativity, flowering, harvesting, and then death. Wheatley points out that we are at the end of a cycle and she warns us: “It’s important that we understand where we are in the pattern of collapse and not throw up our hands in despair . . .but to understand: Now that this is happening, who... Read more

Tao Te Ching

By: Lao Tzu

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The original mindfulness book, in a landmark new translation by the award-winning translator of the I Ching and The Art of War
 
The most translated book in the world after the Bible, the Tao Te Ching, or “Book of the Tao,” is a guide to cultivating a life of peace, serenity, and compassion. Through aphorisms and parable, it leads readers toward... Read more

To Shape a New World

By: Tommie Shelby & Brandon M. Terry

Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly, Priya Ayyar, Cary Hite, Robin Mi...

Length: 16 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Martin Luther King Jr. may be America’s most revered political figure, commemorated in statues, celebrations, and street names around the world. On the fiftieth anniversary of King’s assassination, the man and his activism are as close to public consciousness as ever. But despite his stature, the significance of King’s writings and political... Read more

The Inner Reaches of Outer Space

By: Joseph Campbell

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

In this work, beloved mythologist Joseph Campbell explores the Space Age. He posits that the newly discovered laws of outer space are actually within us as well, and that a new mythology is implicit in that realization. But what is this new mythology? How can we recognize it? Campbell explores these questions in the concluding essay, “The Way of... Read more

The Kybalion 101

By: Matthew Barnes

Narrated by: Kara Jackman

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Master the Laws of Life with the Kybalion, simplified!Imagine finally understanding the teachings of the ancient Egyptian priestly order, and how their findings can be applied to your own existence. How much better would your life be if you actually understood the whys and hows of life? In what ways would your own existence be transformed? Dr.... Read more

Nicomachean Ethics and Eudemian Ethics

By: Aristotle

Narrated by: Andrew Cullum

Length: 14 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics and Eudemian Ethics represent, in many ways, the Western classical springboard for the systematic study and implementation of ethics, the optimum behaviour of the individual. (By contrast, Aristotle's Politics concerns the optimum blueprint for the city-state.) It is in the hands of each individual, he argues in... Read more

El peligro de la historia única

By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Narrated by: Mili Matos & Sol de la Barreda

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Escucha ahora la TED talk más popular de Chimamanda, con más de doce millones de reproducciones. «Las historias importan. Importan muchas historias. Las historias se han utilizado para desposeer y calumniar, pero también pueden usarse para facultar y humanizar. Pueden quebrar la dignidad de un pueblo, pero también pueden restaurarla.» Con su... Read more

Path of the Magus

By: Magus Zeta

Narrated by: Russell Newton

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The new Initiate to a Magickal School will grow into their Art in predictable ways.Even those on the path of Power can lose their way.If you know what to expect, the Path will be less frustrating.˃˃˃ Persevere on the path, and you will master your Art!Know what the future brings.˃˃˃ Understand the stages of the Art.You will succeed in your... Read more

Par delà le bien et le mal – Chapitres I à IV

By: Friedrich Nietzche

Narrated by: Julie Allouf

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Un des ouvrages les plus pédagogiques et les plus fondateurs de Friedrich Nietzsche. Dans un style lumineux l'auteur propose une critique féroce du dogmatisme des philosophes chrétiens et platoniciens. Par la remise en question de ses prédécesseurs, Nietzsche pousse de manière originale à remettre de la créativité dans une pensée trop ancrée... Read more

The Ordinary Virtues

By: Michael Ignatieff

Narrated by: Michael Ignatieff

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

What moral values do human beings hold in common? As globalization draws us together economically, are our values converging or diverging? In particular, are human rights becoming a global ethic? These were the questions that led Michael Ignatieff to embark on a three-year, eight-nation journey in search of answers. The Ordinary Virtues presents... Read more

Well-Being as Value Fulfillment

By: Valerie Tiberius

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

What is human well-being? Valerie Tiberius argues that our lives go well to the extent that we succeed in terms of what matters to us emotionally, reflectively, and over the long term. In other words, well-being consists in fulfilling or realizing our appropriate values over time. In the first half of the book, Tiberius sets out the theory of... Read more

Gelassenheit im Leben: 10 Techniken für innere Ruhe, Entspannung und Gesundheit

By: Ella B. Kondo

Narrated by: Ella B. Kondo

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Hast du dich auch schon mal gefragt was denn der Sinn des Lebens ist? Hektik, Stress und eine Welt, in der jeder nur noch der Zeit und dem Geld hinterherläuft, kann doch nicht alles sein... Dieses Buch ist eine Anleitung für mehr Gelassenheit im Leben, Entspannung und damit auch mehr Gesundheit. Stehe zu Dir und deinen Wünschen, gewinne an... Read more

Happy

By: Derren Brown

Narrated by: Derren Brown

Length: 14 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

The audiobook edition of Happy, read by Derren Brown.

Everyone says they want to be happy. But that's much more easily said than done. What does being happy actually mean? And how do you even know when you feel it?

In Happy Derren Brown explores changing concepts of happiness - from the surprisingly modern wisdom of the... Read more

Why Honor Matters

By: Tamler Sommers

Narrated by: Tamler Sommers

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A controversial call to put honor at the center of moralityTo the modern mind, the idea of honor is outdated, sexist, and barbaric. It evokes Hamilton and Burr and pistols at dawn, not visions of a well-organized society. But for philosopher Tamler Sommers, a sense of honor is essential to living moral lives. In Why Honor Matters, Sommers argues... Read more

Baumgarten and Kant on Metaphysics

By: Courtney D. Fugate & John Hymers

Narrated by: Bob Souer

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

This volume explores the metaphysics of Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714–1762) and its decisive influence on Immanuel Kant.



For over a century, scholars have recognized the significance of Baumgarten's Metaphysics, both because of its impact on Kant's intellectual development, and because of the way it fundamentally informed the work of... Read more

A Call for Revolution

By: Dalai Lama & Sofia Stril-Rever

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 1 hour 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A RALLYING CRY FOR THE WHOLE WORLD, BY ONE OF THE MOST RESPECTED LEADERS OF OUR TROUBLED TIMES.This eloquent, impassioned manifesto is possibly the most important message The Dalai Lama can give us about the future of our world. It's his rallying cry, full of solutions for our chaotic, aggressive, divided times: no less than a call for... Read more

Willing to Believe

By: R.C. Sproul

Narrated by: George W. Sarris

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

What does an individual contribute to his or her own salvation? Does God wait on the doorsteps of our hearts, quietly hoping to be let in when we decide to open the door? Or does he call us and pursue us in a way we can't resist? The debate between the irresistible call of God and a human being's free will has raged for centuries. So what is the... Read more

Robot Rights

By: David J. Gunkel

Narrated by: David Stifel

Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

We are in the midst of a robot invasion, as devices of different configurations and capabilities slowly but surely take up increasingly important positions in everyday social reality―self-driving vehicles, recommendation algorithms, machine learning decision-making systems, and social robots of various forms and functions. Although considerable... Read more

NACHGEDACHT - Geschichten, Gedanken und Gedichte für ein gutes Leben

By: Patrick Lynen

Narrated by: Patrick Lynen & Dorothee Krüger

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Wenn du gedanklich feststeckst, emotional aufgebracht bist oder einen Muntermacher brauchst, dann ist dieses Hörbuch genau das Richtige für dich. Ein Kraftquelle für alle, die Weisheit, Führung, Ermutigung oder Inspiration suchen. Beflügelnde Zitate, wegweisende Gedanken, motivierende Geschichten, kraftvolle Gebete und stille Reflexionen für... Read more