Philosophy audiobooks

A Basket of Plums

By: Joseph Emet

Narrated by: The Monks and Nuns at Plum Village

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

With traditional hymns from Plum Village and many of Thich Nhat Hanh’s well-know poems set to music, along with original compositions by songwriter Joseph Emet, A Basket of Plums Songbook is a perfect way to learn about mindfulness. These songs are for walking, sitting, breathing, eating, gratitude, and enjoying the present moment. Whether you... Read more

Mindful Living Every Day

By: Thich Nhat Hanh

Narrated by: The Monks and Nuns at Plum Village

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Recorded on location in Plum Village, France, gives an overview of the concrete practices that help bring awareness to our breath, body, and mind in each moment. Members of the monastic and lay community of Thich Nhat Hanh demonstrate and talk about their experience with essential mindfulness practices such as: Sitting and Walking Meditation,... Read more

Chanting Breath by Breath

By: Thich Nhat Hanh

Narrated by: The Monks and Nuns at Plum Village

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

In Plum Village, the practice of chanting in English is a flower, slowly blossoming. The chants and music in this program are some of the first petals to open on this beautiful flower. Chanted by the resident community of Plum Village in 2002, these recordings include most of the chants contained in Chanting from the Heart, with live tracks from... Read more

Perfiles de Coraje

By: John F. Kennedy

Narrated by: Horacio Mancilla

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

«Este es un libro acerca de la virtud más admirable de todas las virtudes humanas: el valor. Ernest Hemingway la definió como “gracia bajo presión”. Y estos son los relatos sobre las presiones que experimentaron ocho Senadores de Estados Unidos y la gracia con la cual las enfrentaron». —John F. Kennedy Durante los años 1954 y 1955, el entonces... Read more

Machiavelli

By: Ross King

Narrated by: Tim Reynolds

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Part of the acclaimed Eminent Lives series, Machiavelli is a superb portrait of the brilliant and revolutionary political philosopher—history’s most famous theorist of “warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed”—and the age he embodied. Ross King, the New York Times bestselling author of Brunelleschi’s Dome, argues that the author of The Prince was... Read more

The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1

By: Michel Foucault

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Why has there been such an explosion of discussion about sex in the West since the seventeenth century? Here, one of France's greatest intellectuals explores the evolving social, economic, and political forces that have shaped our attitudes toward sex. In a book that is at once controversial and seductive, Michel Foucault describes how we are in... Read more

The End of White Christian America

By: Robert P. Jones

Narrated by: Holter Graham

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

“Quite possibly the most illuminating text for this election year” (The New York Times Book Review).

*Winner of the Grawemeyer Award in Religion*
Robert P. Jones, CEO of the Public Religion Research Institute, spells out the profound political and cultural consequences of a new reality—that America is no longer a majority white Christian nation.... Read more

Philosophy Talk, Vol. 6

By: John Perry & Ken Taylor

Narrated by: John Perry & Ken Taylor

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Host philosophers Ken Taylor and John Perry invite you to join them in conversation on a wide variety of issues, ranging from popular culture to our most deeply held beliefs about science, morality, and the human condition. Philosophy Talk challenges listeners to identify and question their assumptions and to think about things in new ways.Fun,... Read more

Magic and Loss

By: Virginia Heffernan

Narrated by: Candace Thaxton

Length: 7 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Virginia Heffernan “melds the personal with the increasingly universal in a highly informative analysis of what the Internet is—and can be. A thoroughly engrossing examination of the Internet’s past, present, and future” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) from one of the best living writers of English prose.

This book makes a bold claim: The... Read more

Make a Choice

By: Jeff Benedict

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: No

Extraordinary stories of people who have survived life’s most heart-wrenching tragedies and whose Christian faith has remained unshakable.New York Times bestselling author Jeff Benedict has seen both good and bad in his career as a journalist. Some of the best are the extraordinary people he has met who have made deliberate choices to live... Read more

The Enchiridion & Discourses

By: Epictetus

Narrated by: Hayward B. Morse

Length: 13 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The Enchiridion is the famous manual of ethical advice given in the second century by the Stoic philosopher Epictetus.

Born to a Greek slave, Epictetus grew up in the environment of the Roman Empire and, having been released from bonds of slavery, became a Stoic in the tradition of its originators, Zeno (third Century BCE) and Seneca (first... Read more

Der Appell des Dalai Lama an die Welt - Ethik ist wichtiger als Religion (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Franz Alt & Dalai Lama

Narrated by: Ralf Bauer & Bodo Primus

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

In seinem Appell an die Welt entwirft der Dalai Lama eine neue säkulare Ethik als Basis für ein friedliches Jahrhundert. Nicht Religionen werden die Antwort geben, sondern die Verwurzelung des Menschen in einer Unterschiede überwindenden Ethik. Ein herausfordernder wie mutmachender Text eines bescheidenen wie bedeutenden Mannes unserer Zeit. Read more

Reason: Books I & II

By: Bo Bennett, PhD

Narrated by: Bo Bennett, PhD

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

This book is based on the first five years of The Dr. Bo Show, where Bo takes a critical thinking-, reason-, and science-based approach to issues that matter with the goal of educating and entertaining.

Every chapter in the book explores a different aspect of reason by using a real-world issue or example.

Part one is about how science works even... Read more

Kreativität. Ein Problem? - phil.COLOGNE live (Ungekürzt)

By: Wolfgang Ullrich

Narrated by: Wolfgang Ullrich & Christian Schärf

Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Niemals war mehr von Kreativität die Rede als heute. Sie ist nicht mehr Privileg einiger weniger, sondern gilt als menschliches Grundvermögen. Irgendwo zwischen Lyrik und Ausdruckstanz, Bildermalen und Musikauflegen sollte kreativ tätig werden, wer auf der Höhe der Zeit sein will. Aber dieser Kreativitätsimperativ ist für viele eine... Read more

Big Bang Theory

By: Introbooks Team

Narrated by: Andrea Giordani

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

There are so many number of questions like how this universe came into existence and what form is it going to be in future always keeps bothering our scholars and scientists and thus in sake of finding answers to which they every time come up with some new theory that can prove out to be perfectly answerable to their queries.And so like many... Read more

Systems Theory

By: Introbooks Team

Narrated by: Andrea Giordani

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Systems theory is often referred as system science. It is interdisciplinary study of systems in common terms. Main goal of such studies is to discover new patterns and elucidating principles. Such principles are meant to be derived from and applied to almost any kind of system in all fields of research. These principles can be applied on such... Read more

Philosophy Talk, Vol. 5

By: John Perry & Ken Taylor

Narrated by: John Perry & Ken Taylor

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Host philosophers Ken Taylor and John Perry invite you to join them in conversation on a wide variety of issues, ranging from popular culture to our most deeply held beliefs about science, morality, and the human condition. Philosophy Talk challenges listeners to identify and question their assumptions and to think about things in new ways.Fun,... Read more

On the Shortness of Life, On the Happy Life, and Other Essays

By: Seneca the Younger

Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

As former tutor and adviser to Emperor Nero, philosopher and statesman Seneca was acutely aware of how short life can be - his own life was cut short when the emperor ordered him to commit suicide (for alleged involvement in a conspiracy). And Seneca proved true to his words - his lifelong avowal to Stoicism enabled him to conduct himself with... Read more

Assholes: A Theory of Donald Trump

By: Aaron James

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 2 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Make America Great Again? Donald Trump is an asshole is a fact widely agreed upon—even by his supporters, who actually like that about him. But his startling political rise makes the question of just what sort of asshole he is, and how his assholedom may help to explain his success, one not just of philosophical interest but of almost... Read more

Because We Say So

By: Noam Chomsky

Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Because We Say So presents more than thirty concise, forceful commentaries on U.S. politics and global power. Written between 2011 and 2015, Noam Chomsky's arguments forge a persuasive counter-narrative to official accounts of U.S. politics and policies during global crisis. Find here classic Chomsky on the increasing urgency of climate change,... Read more

On Anger, on Leisure, on Clemency

By: Seneca the Younger

Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

'On Anger' is one of Seneca's most important essays. At some length he investigates the nature of anger: how and why it emerges, the effect it has on the individual and those to whom it is directed, and how to manage it and prevent it even from arising. For, Seneca considers, anger simply serves no purpose - it does not bring courage in war,... Read more

The Gay Science

By: Friedrich Nietzsche

Narrated by: Michael Lunts

Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The Gay Science (The Joyful Wisdom) is one of Nietzsche's greatest books. His wonderfully fertile mind roams over mankind, his thoughts, his emotions, his behaviour and his weaknesses with remarkable clarity, with insight - but also with humour!

In this work are 383 separate paragraphs, some short, some long, but all singular observations - the... Read more

Siddhartha's Brain

By: James Kingsland

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 10 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking exploration of the “science of enlightenment,” told through the lens of the journey of Siddhartha (better known as Buddha), by Guardian science editor James Kingsland.In a lush grove on the banks of the Neranjara in northern India—400 years before the birth of Christ, when the foundations of western science and philosophy were... Read more

Learning Theories

By: Introbooks Team

Narrated by: Andrea Giordani

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Sitting inside a class, one student finds it easy to absorb information while another struggles with it. While one learner may excel in a particular subject another may do well in all the subjects. Trainees go through the same training to be graded differently according to the level of information they have absorbed and the understanding they... Read more