Philosophy audiobooks

The Infidel and the Professor

By: Dennis C. Rasmussen

Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of the greatest of all philosophical friendships—and how it influenced modern thought



David Hume is widely regarded as the most important philosopher ever to write in English, but during his lifetime he was attacked as "the Great Infidel" for his skeptical religious views and deemed unfit to teach the young. In contrast, Adam Smith was... Read more

Know Thyself

By: Ingrid Rossellini

Narrated by: January LaVoy

Length: 14 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2018

A lively and timely introduction to the roots of self-understanding--who we are and how we should act--in the cultures of ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, and Middle Ages and the Renaissance

     "Know thyself"--this fundamental imperative appeared for the first time in ancient Greece, specifically in Delphi,... Read more

Immanuel Kant

By: Ferdinand Jives

Narrated by: Alasdair Cunningham

Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Listen to a handy synopsis, overview, and background of Immanuel Kant and his philosophical teachings. Immanuel Kant was born in the 18th century in Prussia. So actually, he wasn’t originally from Germany. Nonetheless, he set the stage for German philosophy in the following century. According to Kant, philosophy is the result of human reasoning.... Read more

On Color

By: David Scott Kastan

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Our lives are saturated by color. We live in a world of colors, and color marks our psychological and social existence. But for all color’s ubiquity, we don’t know much about it. Authors David Scott Kastan and Stephen Farthing offer a fresh and imaginative exploration of one of the most intriguing and least-understood aspects of everyday... Read more

Erasmus

By: Ferdinand Jives

Narrated by: Alasdair Cunningham

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A Renaissance theologist who brought new light to Dutch changes during the Protestant wars against Spain. He stood for humanism, children’s rights, and theological ideologies that he wasn’t afraid to spread across the Dutch nation, which was going through some dramatic transformations at that time. His political and theological ideas should not... Read more

David Hume

By: Ferdinand Jives

Narrated by: Alasdair Cunningham

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: No

David Hume was a Scottish philosopher and historian. He was also known for his essays and economic analyses. He supported empiricism, skepticism, and naturalism in his own little way, which shed light on life and reasoning in a distinct manner he has propagated in various, ethical ways. In this book, you’ll learn about: The rumors about David... Read more

What Kind of Creatures Are We?

By: Noam Chomsky

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 4 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Noam Chomsky is widely known and deeply admired for being the founder of modern linguistics, one of the founders of the field of cognitive science, and perhaps the most avidly read political theorist and commentator of our time. In these lectures, he presents a lifetime of philosophical reflection on all three of these areas of research to which... Read more

Styles of Radical Will

By: Susan Sontag

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

Styles of Radical Will, Susan Sontag’s second collection of essays, extends the investigations she undertook in Against Interpretation with essays on film, literature, politics, and a groundbreaking study of pornography.In “The Aesthetics of Silence,” Sontag examines how silence mediates the role of art as a form of spirituality in an... Read more

Consilience

By: Edward O. Wilson

Narrated by: Jonathan Hogan

Length: 17 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "A dazzling journey across the sciences and humanities in search of deep laws to unite them." —The Wall Street Journal

One of our greatest scientists—and the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for On Human Nature and The Ants—gives us a work of visionary importance that may be the crowning achievement of his career. In... Read more

Ultimate Truth

By: Anthony Peters

Narrated by: Anthony Peters

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a highly informative, thought provoking and well-structured book making it perfect for anyone wanting to gain a much deeper level of understanding into spirituality, Buddhist philosophy, the law of attraction and the ultimate truth about your potential in life. Each chapter gradually peels back the illusions and delusions of mind,... Read more

Post-Truth

By: Lee McIntyre

Narrated by: Matthew Josdal

Length: 4 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

What, exactly, is post-truth? Is it wishful thinking, political spin, mass delusion, bold-faced lying? McIntyre analyzes recent examples—claims about inauguration crowd size, crime statistics, and the popular vote—and finds that post-truth is an assertion of ideological supremacy by which its practitioners try to compel someone to believe... Read more

Critique of Practical Reason

By: Immanuel Kant

Narrated by: Michael Lunts

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The Critique of Practical Reason was published in 1788, seven years after Immanuel Kant's major work, Critique of Pure Reason.

In it, Kant sets out his moral philosophy - and it proved a seminal text in the history of the subject. He argues that the summum bonum (the highest good) of life is that rather than just pursuing happiness, people... Read more

The People vs. Democracy

By: Yascha Mounk

Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

“We can no longer assume that liberal democracy is the wave of the future… This splendid book is an invaluable contribution to the debate about what ails democracy, and what can be done about it.” ―Michael J. Sandel, author of Justice“Everyone worried about the state of contemporary politics should read this book.” ―Anne-Marie Slaughter,... Read more

The Existentialist's Survival Guide

By: Gordon Marino

Narrated by: Joe Knezevich

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Existentialism offers enduring lessons and insight on how to understand ourselves and improve our lives.Your existence is not the result of a pre-determined set of events, it’s the direct result of your thinking and your actions, and therefore, according to Soren Kierkegaard, Frederick Nietzsche, Albert Camus, and other Existentialist... Read more

CORE

By: Neil Gaught

Narrated by: Shaun Grindell

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

At the core of the world's most admired businesses lies a powerful Single Organizing Idea. These organizations deliver sustainable economic and social benefit; they unite people, attract investment, inspire innovation, pioneer new efficiencies, and enjoy positive reputation.

Such businesses are admired but they remain a rare breed.

Though the... Read more

Assume the Worst

By: Carl Hiaasen

Narrated by: Carl Hiaasen

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: No

This is Oh, the Places You'll Never Go--the ultimate hilarious, cynical, but absolutely realistic view of a college graduate's future. And what he or she can or can't do about it.

"This commencement address will never be given, because graduation speakers are supposed to offer encouragement and inspiration. That's not what you need. You need a... Read more

Is God a Mathematician?

By: Mario Livio

Narrated by: Tom Parks

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author and astrophysicist Mario Livio examines the lives and theories of history’s greatest mathematicians to ask how—if mathematics is an abstract construction of the human mind—it can so perfectly explain the physical world.Nobel Laureate Eugene Wigner once wondered about “the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics” in the... Read more

This is Tai Chi: 50 Essential Questions and Answers

By: Paul Read

Narrated by: Paul Read

Length: 1 hour 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Everything you need to know about Tai Chi, including how to find a class...what happens in a class...how long it takes to learn...the difference between the styles and a unique history of the art in China and its travels to the West. See below for a complete list of the 50 Questions that the book answers. This fascinating audio version of the... Read more

The Art of War

By: Sun Tzu & Thomas Cleary

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 1 hour 54 minutes

Abridged: No

For more than 2,000 years, Sun Tzu's The Art of War has provided leaders with essential advice on battlefield tactics, managing troops and terrain, and employing cunning and deception. An elemental part of Chinese culture, it has also become a touchstone for the Western struggle for survival and success, whether in battle, in business or in... Read more

The Way of Leadership

By: author

Narrated by: David Warrilow & Michael O'Keefe

Length: 3 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Proven to be invaluable resources for anyone in a position of power, here are three of China's greatest classical works on leadership, warriorship, and strategy:

The Art of War: This timeless guide is perhaps the most influential book of strategy in the world today. Zen Lessons: These core teachings of China's greatest Zen masters cover... Read more

La hoja del olmo no es perfecta

By: Javier López Facal

Narrated by: David Morales

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

La Tierra no es perfectamente redonda, pero la circunferencia creada por los hombres sí lo es. Lo malo es que cuando intentaban medir esa circunferencia inventada con su diámetro, salía un número irracional, un número desconcertante, el número pi. Otros conceptos ideales creados también por los hombres, como la simetría, la ortodoxia, la... Read more

Die Kunst, die Eltern zu enttäuschen

By: Michael Bordt SJ

Narrated by: Michael Bordt SJ

Length: 1 hour 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Man kann es nicht allen recht machen – vor allem seinen Eltern nicht! Nur wer bereit ist, andere zu enttäuschen, wird sein eigenes Leben finden.  Manchmal müssen wir andere Menschen enttäuschen, weil ihre Vorstellungen von unserem Leben einfach nicht zu uns passen - bei aller Liebe nicht. Wie enttäuscht man Erwartungen, um selbstbestimmt leben... Read more

Surviving the Future

By: David Fleming & Shaun Chamberlin

Narrated by: Shaun Chamberlin

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Surviving the Future is a story drawn from the fertile ground of the late David Fleming’s extraordinary Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It. That hardback consists of four hundred and four interlinked dictionary entries, inviting readers to choose their own path through its radical vision. Recognizing that Lean Logic’s... Read more

Humankind

By: Timothy Morton

Narrated by: Liam Gerrard

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A radical call for solidarity between humans and nonhumans



What is it that makes humans human? As science and technology challenge the boundaries between life and nonlife, between organic and inorganic, this ancient question is more timely than ever. Acclaimed object-oriented philosopher Timothy Morton invites us to consider this philosophical... Read more