Philosophy audiobooks
Determined to Believe?
By: John C. Lennox
Narrated by: Paul Gregory
Length: 13 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
A serious biblical and philosophical investigation of theological determinism: the idea that everything that happens has already been decided by God, including who will and won’t be saved.This audiobook is for those who are interested in, or troubled by, questions about God's sovereignty and human freedom and responsibility. Christian apologist... Read more
View audiobookBecoming Dallas Willard
By: Gary W. Moon
Narrated by: Joe Geoffrey
Length: 10 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
Dallas Willard was a personal mentor and inspiration to hundreds of pastors, philosophers, and average churchgoers. His presence and ideas rippled through the lives of many prominent leaders and authors, such as John Ortberg, Richard Foster, James Bryan Smith, Paula Huston, and J. P. Moreland. As a result of these relationships and the books he... Read more
View audiobookThe Craftsman
By: Richard Sennett
Narrated by: Sean Runnette
Length: 11 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
The Craftsman explores the relation between the hand and the head. Richard Sennett argues that working with physical things stimulates people to think.
Craftsmanship, says Sennett, names the basic human impulse to do a job well for its own sake, and good craftsmanship involves developing skills and focusing on the work rather than ourselves. The... Read more
Under the Sign of Saturn
By: Susan Sontag
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
Length: 6 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Sontag’s most important critical writings from 1972 to 1980 are collected in Under the Sign of Saturn. One of America’s leading essayists, Sontag’s writings are commentaries on the relation between moral and aesthetic ideas, discussing the works of Antonin Artaud, Leni Riefenstahl, Elias Canetti, Walter Benjamin, and others. The collection... Read more
View audiobookSearching for Stars on an Island in Maine
By: Alan Lightman
Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
Length: 5 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
From the acclaimed author of Einstein’s Dreams, an inspired, lyrical meditation on religion and science, with an exploration of the tension between our yearning for permanence and certainty versus modern scientific discoveries pointing to the impermanent and uncertain nature of the worldAs a physicist, Alan Lightman has always held a purely... Read more
View audiobookEssentials of Buddhist Philosophy with Bee Scherer
By: Bee Scherer
Narrated by: Bee Scherer
Length: 3 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
This course introduces key concepts of Indian Buddhist thought. Over 5 lectures Bee explains the fundamental themes and problems of Buddhist Philosophy; from the early Buddhist teachings on ‘suffering’, ‘karma’ and ‘No-Self’, to the later scholasticism and the famous schools of thought around ‘emptiness’ and ‘mind-only’. Each chapter introduces... Read more
View audiobookThe F-Word
By: Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel
Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Buddhist teacher Namgyel points out that “everything leans.” She frames this statement with the reminder, “[W]e live in a world where ‘it all depends’ and everything is influencing everything else. We might think we know something at one moment but everything is always interrupting and influencing and so it’s always changing. Life, as we know... Read more
View audiobookHow to Die
By: Seneca
Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
Length: 2 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
"It takes an entire lifetime to learn how to die," wrote the Roman Stoic philosopher Seneca (c. 4 BC–65 AD). He counseled readers to "study death always," and took his own advice, returning to the subject again and again in all his writings, yet he never treated it in a complete work. How to Die gathers in one volume, for the first time,... Read more
View audiobookRadical Wholeness
By: Philip Shepherd
Narrated by: Philip Shepherd
Length: 11 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
There are qualities we all yearn to experience in our lives—peace, simplicity, grace, connection, clarity. Yet these qualities evade us because each of them arises from an experience of wholeness, and we live in a culture that enforces divisions within each of us. In Radical Wholeness, Philip Shepherd shows the countless ways in which we are... Read more
View audiobookHealing Love through the Tao
By: Mantak Chia
Narrated by: Donna Postel
Length: 8 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
For thousands of years the sexual principles and techniques presented here were taught by Taoist masters in secret only to a small number of people (sworn to silence), in the royal courts and esoteric circles of China. This is the first book to make this ancient knowledge available to the West.
The foundation of healing love is the cultivation,... Read more
After Virtue, Third Edition
By: Alasdair MacIntyre
Narrated by: Derek Perkins
Length: 14 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
When After Virtue first appeared in 1981, it was recognized as a significant and potentially controversial critique of contemporary moral philosophy. Since that time, the book has been translated into more than fifteen foreign languages and has sold over one hundred thousand copies. Now, twenty-five years later, the University of Notre Dame... Read more
View audiobookFuture Predictions by an Engineer and Seer
By: Martin K. Ettington
Narrated by: Martin K. Ettington
Length: 2 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
This book is about predictions of the Future from both projections of existing trends and possible major paradigm changes.On Making Predictions of the Future: It is possible to make pretty good future predictions by taking into account three things-- 1) Technological and Sociological Trends 2) Potential Paradigm changes 3) IntuitionIn this book... Read more
View audiobookThe Socratic Dialogues: Late Period
By: Benjamin Jowett
Narrated by: Hayward B. Morse & Laurence Kennedy
Length: 14 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
The Laws is the longest of Plato's Dialogues and actually doesn't feature Socrates at all - the principal figure taking the lead is the ‘Athenian Stranger' who engages two older men in the discussion, Cleinias (from Crete) and Megillus (from Sparta).
The Dialogue is set in Crete, and the three men embark on a pilgrimage from Knossus to the cave... Read more
Yamas & Niyamas
By: Deborah Adele
Narrated by: Laura Jennings
Length: 4 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
The first two limbs of the eight-fold path of yoga sutras—the basic text for classical yoga—are examined in this spiritual guide to the practice of yoga. Foundational to all yogic thought, they are considered to be the guidelines to the yoga way of living that free individuals to take ownership of their lives, direct them toward the fulfillment... Read more
View audiobookThe Common Good
By: Robert B. Reich
Narrated by: Robert B. Reich
Length: 5 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Robert B. Reich makes a powerful case for the expansion of America’s moral imagination. Rooting his argument in common sense and everyday reality, he demonstrates that a common good constitutes the very essence of any society or nation. Societies, he says, undergo virtuous cycles that reinforce the common good as well as vicious cycles that... Read more
View audiobookLet's Move On
By: Vicente Fox
Narrated by: Thom Rivera
Length: 4 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Vicente Fox, the former president of Mexico, issues both a denunciation of the current state of American politics and a call to unity and resistance in the face of rising ethnocentric and anti-democratic sentiments.Vicente Fox offers his unique viewpoint as a former head of state, avid historian, and true admirer of America’s constitutional... Read more
View audiobookThe Arrows of Zen
By: Ernest Cadorin
Narrated by: Ernest Cadorin
Length: 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Think Zen is soft music and scented candles? This absolutely fantastic book turns up the lights and illuminates some of the most profound aspects of the ancient philosophy. Drawing on decades of experience in Zen and the martial arts, Ernest Cadorin explains the principles and practices of Zen through compelling stories and brilliant... Read more
View audiobookOn Using the Scientific Method for the Paranormal
By: Martin K. Ettington
Narrated by: Martin K. Ettington
Length: 1 hour 28 minutes
Abridged: No
“On Using the Scientific Method to Study the Paranormal” is an analysis of how the un-measureable can be measured. The basis of Science is the ability to test a Hypothesis. This can only be done by having instruments which can measure the phenomena in question. If measurements can’t be made then Science can’t be conducted. After discussing some... Read more
View audiobookMidlife
By: Kieran Setiya
Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
Length: 4 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Philosophical wisdom and practical advice for overcoming the problems of middle age.
How can you reconcile yourself with the lives you will never lead, with possibilities foreclosed, and with nostalgia for lost youth? How can you accept the failings of the past, the sense of futility in the tasks that consume the present, and the prospect of... Read more
Awakening Your Ikigai
By: Ken Mogi
Narrated by: Matt Addis
Length: 3 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Ikigai is a Japanese phenomenon commonly understood as "your reason to get up in the morning." Ikigai can be small moments: the morning air, a cup of coffee, a compliment. It can also be deep convictions: a fulfilling job, lasting friendships, balanced health. Whether big or small, your ikigai is the path to success and happiness in your own... Read more
View audiobookMaharishi & Me
By: Susan Shumsky
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length: 13 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Susan Shumsky is a successful author in the New Age/Spirituality field, writing books on meditation, intuition, prayer, auras, chakras, and the like. But in the 1970s, she was one of only a handful of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s personal attendants and administrators, in India, Switzerland, and elsewhere. Following the teachings of Maharishi... Read more
View audiobookThe Socratic Dialogues: Late Period
By: Benjamin Jowett
Narrated by: David Rntoul & David Timson
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
These five very different Socratic Dialogues date from Plato's later period, when he was revisiting his early thoughts and conclusions and showing a willingness for revision.
In Timaeus (mainly a monologue read by David Timson in the title role), Plato considers cosmology in terms of the nature and structure of the universe, the ever-changing... Read more
Ruling Your World
By: Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche
Narrated by: Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche
Length: 2 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
You're stuck in the airport security line, late for a flight. The line isn't moving. You're angry at the security personnel for taking so long, you're irritated at the other passengers for having so much stuff, you're mad at your boss for sending you on this trip in the first place. By the time you get to your gate you're angry, deflated, and... Read more
View audiobookOn the Soul & Parva Naturalia
By: Aristotle
Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
Length: 8 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Two contrasting reflections by Aristotle which cover very particular ground. In 'On the Soul', Aristotle presents his view of the 'life essence' which, he argues, is possessed by living things whether plants, animals or humans.
Not a 'soul' in the generally accepted Western use of the term, this 'soul', he says, is a life force that is... Read more