Philosophy audiobooks

How to Be a Friend

By: Marcus Tullius Cicero

Narrated by: Shaun Grindell

Length: 1 hour 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In a world where social media, online relationships, and relentless self-absorption threaten the very idea of deep and lasting friendships, the search for true friends is more important than ever. In this short book, which is one of the greatest ever written on the subject, the famous Roman politician and philosopher Cicero offers a compelling... Read more

How to Be Free

By: Epictetus

Narrated by: Shaun Grindell

Length: 1 hour 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Born a slave, the Roman Stoic philosopher Epictetus (c. 55–135 AD) taught that mental freedom is supreme, since it can liberate one anywhere, even in a prison. In How to Be Free, A. A. Long—one of the world's leading authorities on Stoicism and a pioneer in its remarkable contemporary revival—provides a superb new edition of Epictetus's... Read more

Win Now!

By: D. R. Fortune

Narrated by: Jay Spaulding

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Are You Ready to Discover The #1 Secret to Instant Success and Winning Now?This book will transform your life the moment you open it!• It will unleash hidden powers you never thought you had.• It will put you on the fast track to abundance in all areas of your life and make you unstoppable.• It reveals the key success ingredient housed within a... Read more

Isis Das göttliche weibliche Prinzip

By: Moustafa Gadalla

Narrated by: Daniel Meyer-Dinkgrafe

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Eine Erklärung des metaphysischen und physischen göttlichen weiblichen Prinzips und ungefähr zwanzig weiblicher manifestierter Attribute. Diese in die deutsche Sprache übersetzt Ausgabe erklärt das göttliche weibliche Prinzip als Quelle der Schöpfung sowohl metaphysisch als auch physisch; die Beziehung (und Einheit) der weiblichen und männlichen... Read more

The Conspiracy against the Human Race

By: Thomas Ligotti

Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

"There is a signature motif discernible in both works of philosophical pessimism and supernatural horror. It may be stated thus: Behind the scenes of life lurks something pernicious that makes a nightmare of our world."

His fiction is known to be some of the most terrifying in the genre of supernatural horror, but Thomas Ligotti's first... Read more

Anarchy, State, and Utopia

By: Robert Nozick

Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell

Length: 14 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In this classic work, award-winning philosopher Robert Nozick offers a “complex, sophisticated, and ingenious” (The Economist) defense of libertarianism

First published in response to John Rawls' A Theory of Justice, Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia has since become one of the defining texts in classic libertarian thought. Challenging... Read more

Practicing Forgiveness: How to Forgive, Reconcile, and Restore Relationships

By: Everett Worthington

Narrated by: Everett Worthington

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Perhaps the world’s leading expert on forgiveness research, Everett Worthington distills decades of wisdom into 15 life-changing lectures.

The author or editor of more than 38 books on marriage, family, and forgiveness, Prof. Worthington received the Humanitarian Award from the Association for Spiritual, Ethical, and Religious Values in... Read more

The Manual Of Bean Curd Boxing

By: Paul Read

Narrated by: Paul Read

Length: 3 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

So many disciplines promise happiness, security, health, wisdom or enlightenment, but few deliver more than just words. Yet, when you fuse together an ancient eastern practice with a thoroughly 21st century take - you create something beautifully intriguing and inspiringly new that encompasses so many of these qualities: Bean Curd... Read more

Organon

By: Aristotle

Narrated by: Peter Noble

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Aristotle's Organon comprises six key essays on logic, initially collected by Theophrastus, his successor as head of the Peripatetic school, and given its final form by Andronicus some three centuries later. The six essays are: Categories, On Interpretation, Prior Analytics, Posterior Analytics, Topics and On Sophistical Refutations. One of the... Read more

Suffering and Virtue

By: Michael S. Brady

Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Suffering, in one form or another, is present in all of our lives. But why do we suffer? On one reading, this is a question about the causes of physical and emotional suffering. On another, it is a question about whether suffering has a point or purpose or value. In this groundbreaking book, Michael Brady argues that suffering is vital for the... Read more

Hiking with Nietzsche

By: John Kaag

Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A revelatory Alpine journey in the spirit of the great Romantic thinker, Friedrich NietzscheHiking with Nietzsche is a tale of two philosophical journeys—one made by John Kaag as an introspective young man of nineteen, the other seventeen years later and in quite different circumstances: as a husband and father. His wife and small child in tow,... Read more

Tao Te Ching

By: Lao Tzu

Narrated by: JD Kelly

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The Tao Te Ching is a Chinese classic text traditionally credited to the 6th-century BC sage Lao Tzu. The text's authorship, date of composition, and date of compilation are debated. The oldest excavated portion dates back to the late 4th century BC, but modern scholarship dates other parts of the text as having been written - or at least... Read more

Healthy Home, Healthy Me: Creating Harmony From the Inside Out

By: Sybilla Lenz

Narrated by: Becky Parker

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

How to bring your environment into alignment with your desires for your life so it is inviting what you want to manifest!

What if your home and/or office environment could help you realize your dreams? Imagine your space flowing with energy in perfect alignment with you. Picture your goals being met with surprising ease.

Sybilla Lenz is... Read more

Isis The Divine Female

By: Moustafa Gadalla

Narrated by: Justin Whitelock

Length: 3 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

This book explains the divine female principle as the source of creation-both metaphysically and physically; the feminine dual nature of Isis with Nephthys; the relationship (and one-ness) of the female and male principles; the numerology of Isis and Osiris; Isis’ role as the Virgin Mother; explanation of about twenty female deities as the... Read more

The Character Gap

By: Christian B. Miller

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

We like to think of ourselves, our friends, and our families as decent people. We may not be saints, but we are still honest, relatively kind, and mostly trustworthy. Miller argues here that we are badly mistaken in thinking this. Hundreds of recent studies in psychology tell a different story: that we all have serious character flaws that... Read more

The Elements of Theology

By: Proclus

Narrated by: Peter Wickham

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Proclus - or Proclus of Athens, as he is sometimes known - is widely and rightly considered to be one of the most significant later Neoplatonist philosophers. At age 40 (c.437 CE) or so, Proclus became head of the revived Plato's Academy in Athens. In his role for the next 50 years, the unmarried Proclus worked hard, combining effectively the... Read more

Can Democracy Work?

By: James Miller

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A new history of the world's most embattled idea.

Today, democracy is the world's only broadly accepted political system, and yet it has become synonymous with disappointment and crisis. How did it come to this? In Can Democracy Work? James Miller, the author of the classic history of 1960s protest Democracy Is in the Streets, offers a lively,... Read more

Los Secretos de Enoch (abreviado) - Abridged

By: Conny Mendez

Narrated by: Isabel Vara

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Fonolibro presenta LOS SECRETOS DE ENOCH de Conny Méndez. La introducción de "El Libro de Enoch" nos dice que Enoch es "solo un hombre cuyos ojos fueron abiertos por Dios para que viera la visión del Santo Padre en el cielo". Con el mismo sentido bíblico, y como complemento a lo expresado por la autora, en este segundo libro en referencia al... Read more

Greater Expectations

By: Allan R. Manchester

Narrated by: Mandy Kaplan

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Most philosophers of history have been apologists excusing the rights of the elite, the privileged, the priests, and the kings—the rights of the king to wage war, the rights of the property owners to rule their tenants, the rights of the priests to pardon sins, and the rights of the lords to create laws. Philosophy is the foundation of all of... Read more

The Art of Logic in an Illogical World

By: Eugenia Cheng

Narrated by: Moira Quirk

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

How both logical and emotional reasoning can help us live better in our post-truth world

In a world where fake news stories change election outcomes, has rationality become futile? In The Art of Logic in an Illogical World, Eugenia Cheng throws a lifeline to readers drowning in the illogic of contemporary life. Cheng is a mathematician, so she... Read more

Adam Smith

By: Jesse Norman

Narrated by: Jesse Norman

Length: 13 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A dazzlingly original, "remarkable" account of the life and thought of legendary economist Adam Smith (Financial Times).

Adam Smith (1723-1790) is now widely regarded as the greatest economist of all time. But what he really thought, and the implications of his ideas, remain fiercely contested. Was he an eloquent advocate of capitalism and... Read more

Philosophy: The Audio Masterclass

By: Mel Thompson, Mark Vernon & Nicky Hayes

Narrated by: Richard Lyddon

Length: 18 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The Audio Masterclass series will give you everything you need to get up to speed on the big topics that matter in self-help, psychology, business and the humanities.

Philosophy is a life-tool, a set of skills for engaging with any subject, and in the Philosophy Audio Masterclass you will discover a body of wisdom and a way to develop your own... Read more

The Prince

By: Niccolò Machiavelli

Narrated by: John York

Length: 3 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

🎧 Dive into the timeless wisdom of political strategy with "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli, now available as an engaging audiobook! Explore Machiavelli's seminal work, where he delves into the art of leadership, power, and manipulation.Narrated with captivating clarity, this audiobook brings Machiavelli's principles to life, allowing you to... Read more

The Theory of Moral Sentiments

By: Adam Smith

Narrated by: Michael Lunts

Length: 16 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

‘How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it.'

So begins The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), the first major text by Adam Smith, who, seven... Read more