Philosophy audiobooks
How Fascism Works
By: Jason Stanley
Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
Length: 5 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
โNo single book is as relevant to the present moment.โโClaudia Rankine, author of Citizen
โOne of the defining books of the decade.โโElizabeth Hinton, author of From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORSโ CHOICE โข Fascist politics are running rampant in America todayโand spreading around the world. A Yale... Read more
Each Journey Begins with a Single Step
By: Deng Ming-Dao
Narrated by: Lloyd James
Length: 3 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
This is a book of guidance for lifeโs journey rooted in the wisdom of ancient China. Bestselling author Deng Ming-Dao provides key poetic lines that distill the essence of Taoism, organizing them in the form of a journey. The material here is drawn from three sources: The Tao Te Ching, The Yijing, and 300 Tang Poems.Deng Ming-Dao writes: โWe... Read more
View audiobookThe Intellectual Toolkit of Geniuses
By: I. C. Robledo
Narrated by: Markham Anderson
Length: 1 hour
Abridged: No
Think Like Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, & Charles DarwinGreat geniuses before us have uncovered certain key principles on their path to greatness. You can learn those principles now, without all of the sweat, tears, and costly mistakes.Imagine that you could tap into the minds of many great geniuses. Think how they could help you... Read more
View audiobookHow to Grow Old
By: Marcus Tullius Cicero
Narrated by: Roger Clark
Length: 1 hour 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Worried that old age will inevitably mean losing your libido, your health, and possibly your marbles too? Well, Cicero has some good news for you. In How to Grow Old, the great Roman orator and statesman eloquently describes how you can make the second half of life the best part of allโand why you might discover that reading and gardening are... Read more
View audiobookThe World Peace Diet
By: Will Tuttle, , PhD
Narrated by: Dr. Will Tuttle
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
The World Peace Diet has been called one of the most important books of the twenty-first century: the foundation of a new society based on the truth of the interconnectedness of all life. It's the first book to make explicit the invisible connections between our meals and our broad range of problems: psychological, social, and spiritual, as well... Read more
View audiobookOn Sense and the Sensible
By: Aristotle
Narrated by: Suzi Woods
Length: 1 hour 43 minutes
Abridged: No
This Aristotelian treatise makes up part of the philosopherโs Parva Naturalia, which is Latin for โshort treatises on nature.โ In this text, he presents his ideas about the human senses. He connects each sense to an elementโsight to water, touch to earth, etc. While Aristotleโs view of the senses is scientifically inaccurate in many ways, this... Read more
View audiobookThe Meaning of Happiness
By: Alan Watts
Narrated by: Kern Schmidt
Length: 7 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
Deep down, most people think that happiness comes from having or doing something. Here, in Alan Wattsโs groundbreaking third book (originally published in 1940), he offers a more challenging thesis: authentic happiness comes from embracing life as a whole in all its contradictions and paradoxes, an attitude that Watts calls the โway of... Read more
View audiobookAvant je criais fort
By: Jรฉrรฉmie McEwen
Narrated by: Jรฉrรฉmie McEwen
Length: 3 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
Jรฉrรฉmie est professeur de philosophie au Collรจge Montmorency, rappeur du duo La Brigade des Moeurs, et chroniqueur philo ร Radio-Canada (Cโest fou, On dira ce quโon voudraโฆ). Il a aussi รฉcrit ponctuellement pour La Presse, dans le magazine Nouveau Projet ou sur le site Voir.ca. Jรฉrรฉmie en a marre dโentendre, partout dans les mรฉdias, du monde... Read more
View audiobookPlato
By: Ferdinand Jives
Narrated by: Alasdair Cunningham
Length: 1 hour 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Hear about the man on which a great portion of Western philosophy itself is based.ย 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 metaphysics, epistemology, and... Read more
View audiobookTheodicy
By: Laurie Calhoun
Narrated by: Laurie Calhoun
Length: 9 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
What happened to philosophy in the twentieth century? Laurie Calhoun has an answer to this question, but you are probably not going to like itโcertainly not if you are comfortably ensconced in academia. That would make you one of โthe expertsโ taken to task and whose โexpertiseโ is unmasked inย Theodicy. If, on the other hand, you left philosophy... Read more
View audiobook101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
By: Brianna Wiest
Narrated by: Abby Craden
Length: 10 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Over the past few years, Brianna Wiest has gained renown for her deeply moving, philosophical writing. This new compilation of her published work features pieces on why you should pursue purpose over passion, embrace negative thinking, see the wisdom in daily routine, and become aware of the cognitive biases that are creating the way you see... Read more
View audiobookEssays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Narrated by: Phil Paonessa
Length: 8 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1834, Ralph Waldo Emerson, formerly a Unitarian minister, began a new career as a public lecturer. Many of those lectures formed the source material for his essays. Nature (1836), his first published work, contained the essence of his transcendental philosophy, which involved viewing the world of natural phenomena as a symbol of the inner... Read more
View audiobookExact Thinking in Demented Times
By: Karl Sigmund
Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
Length: 13 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
A dazzling group biography of the early twentieth-century thinkers who transformed the way the world thought about math and science
Inspired by Albert Einstein's theory of relativity and Bertrand Russell and David Hilbert's pursuit of the fundamental rules of mathematics, some of the most brilliant minds of the generation came together in... Read more
Loving Without Limits
By: Guy Finley
Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Finley explores deescalating painful disagreements and fights in our relationships and gives us tools to transform anger and blame into healthy and fulfilling communication. He shows us a way to stop old, negative patterns in their tracks and leads us into a landscape in which we can deepen the loving bond between ourselves and our partners. Read more
View audiobookTalking Across the Divide
By: Justin Lee
Narrated by: Justin Lee
Length: 6 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
A guide to learning how to communicate with people who have diametrically opposed opinions from you, how to empathize with them, and how to (possibly) change their minds
America is more polarized than ever. Whether the issue is Donald Trump, healthcare, abortion, gun control, breastfeeding, or even DC vs Marvel, it feels like you can't voice an... Read more
Thomas Aquinas
By: Ferdinand Jives
Narrated by: Alasdair Cunningham
Length: 1 hour 11 minutes
Abridged: No
A Catholic who put things into perspective when philosophical ideas were at an all-time lowItalian philosopher, Thomas Aquinas, had a major impact on Christian theology, the rise of Scholasticism, and the Roman Catholic Church. Hisย Summa Theologicaand other works are renowned, and they emphasize the five pieces of evidences that God exists. To... Read more
View audiobookThe Layman's Guide To Quantum Reality
By: JD Lovil
Narrated by: Cathi Colas
Length: 3 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
Have you always wanted to understand Quantum Theory, but was afraid of the math?Relax. I have written this book so that you can understand the theory without all the hard to understand equations and science speak.Once you understand quantum mechanics, you can use that knowledge to take control of your life.
This book has three sections.It will... Read more
Elements of the Philosophy of Right
By: Georg Wilhelm Hegel
Narrated by: Jonathan Booth
Length: 14 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Elements of The Philosophy of Right, a key work in the output of Georg Wilhelm Hegel (1770-1831), appeared in 1820 - and was arguably his last major publication. His intention was to state his views on the philosophy of law, political and social theory and ethics. Appearing as it did in a crucial time for the Prussian state - still affected by... Read more
View audiobookAn Essay Concerning Human Understanding
By: John Locke
Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
Length: 30 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
John Locke and his works - particularly An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - are regularly and rightly presented as foundations for the Age of Enlightenment. His primary epistemological message - that the mind at birth is a blank sheet waiting to be filled by the experiences of the senses - complemented his primary political message: that... Read more
View audiobookBalancing Our Chakra System For Emotional And Spiritual Healing
By: Anodea Judith, Ph.D.
Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Anodea Judith substitutes the word โchargeโ for energy. โChargeโ as it relates to our life-force energy can be blocked or be freely flowing. It also relates to our chakra system, which comprises the organizational centers in the body. Here she takes us through the seven chakra centers and how we can work more effectively with them. Read more
View audiobookFormative Early Writings by Karl Marx
By: Karl Marx
Narrated by: Derek Le Page
Length: 12 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Though Karl Marx is best known for Capital and The Communist Manifesto, his revolutionary thoughts and ideas had developed over decades spent in study, discussion and association with a variety of organisations throughout Europe and the US, intent on challenging the establishment order.
These six very different texts show how Marx's ideas... Read more
The Tao Made Easy
By: Alan Cohen
Narrated by: Alan Cohen
Length: 10 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
May you live during interesting times: so goes an ancient Chinese blessing"or some say curse. That wish has come true for us. Now what? In this radically illuminating book, Alan Cohen delves into one of the world's most venerated wisdom texts for answers and brings the lofty and enigmatic concepts of the Tao Te Ching down to earth in fresh,... Read more
View audiobookThe Original Buddhist Psychology
By: Beth Jacobs, Ph.D.
Narrated by: Margo Trueblood
Length: 6 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Drawing on decades of experience, a psychotherapist and Zen practitioner makes the Abhidharma--the original psychological system of Buddhism--accessible to a general audience for the first time.
The Abhidharma, one of the three major text collections of the original Buddhist canon, explores the critical juncture of Buddhist thought and the... Read more
Critique of Judgement
By: Immanuel Kant
Narrated by: Michael Lunts
Length: 15 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Kant's Critique of Judgement is the third and final part of his series of Critiques, which began with Critique of Pure Reason and continued with Critique of Practical Reason.
Critique of Judgement was published in 1790 and is divided into two parts, the Critique of Aesthetic Judgement and the Critique of Teleological Judgement.
Our โjudgements... Read more