Philosophy audiobooks

The ground of being, and the mind of man

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

"Can insight bring about a mutation of the brain cells? - 15 April 1980 • Can insight change the brain cells? • In the brain is there an activity which is not touched by consciousness? • Insight is not dependent on the material process, which is thought. • Where there is violence, peace cannot exist. Where there is peace, is there violence? • As... Read more

Senility and the brain cells

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

Abridged: No

"Senility and the brain cells - 1 June 1980 • Is the human brain deteriorating? • The human brain is not a particular brain, it doesn't belong to me or to anyone else, it is the human brain which has evolved for millions of years. • Can the brain not only be aware of its own movement but can the brain itself have enough energy to break all... Read more

There Is insight when thought is absent

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Public Talks 1. Can I see wholly? - 16 July 1972 Duration: 71 minutes • Do we act casually, expecting division to end as a result of outer environment? • Does change demand immediate attention and action? • Freeing of the mind from conditioning and in that freedom bringing about a cooperative action. • Can one who is conditioned by the past... Read more

Can There Be Complete Freedom Of Thought

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Public Talks 1. Complete freedom from thought - 9 September 1972 Duration: 76 minutes • Learning is instant perception and action. What place has thought in learning? • To learn about freedom must thought be completely silent? Does insight into freedom take time? • Can thinking, however rational, bring about a psychological revolution in us? •... Read more

The Subjection of Women

By: John Stuart Mill

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 4 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

English society in the 1860's was on the brink of enormous change, and some of the biggest changes coming to birth in that time was the tremendous change in the status of women--changes affecting politics, economics, law, government, business, education, psychology, religion and sexuality, and the list goes on. The changes John Stuart Mill... Read more

Gratitude

By: Oliver Sacks

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A deeply moving testimony and celebration of how to embrace life. No writer has succeeded in capturing the medical and human drama of illness as honestly and as eloquently as Oliver Sacks. During the last few months of his life, he wrote a set of essays in which he movingly explored his feelings about completing a life and coming to terms with... Read more

The True Spirit Of Poet And Mystic Robert Lax

By: Michael N. McGregor

Narrated by: Phil Cousineau

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Robert Lax is one of the great experimental poets of the 20th century, a daring and original avant-garde writer who was sought out as a sage and a mentor. He was a circus performer, a clown and a juggler, and well known for being a close friend of Thomas Merton. McGregor knew and loved this man and wrote a biography to make this remarkable man’s... Read more

Toltec Insights And Truths

By: Don Miguel Ruiz

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Many of us have appreciated the four agreements brought to us by don Miguel Ruiz. For many years they have assisted us in altering old behavior patterns that no longer serve our lives. Briefly they are: do not take things personally, stop making assumptions, be impeccable with your words, and do your best. There is a fifth agreement added to... Read more

Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life, They Change It

By: Daniel Klein

Narrated by: James Jenner

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A humorous and philosophical trip through life, from the New York Times-bestselling coauthor of Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar ... Daniel Klein's fans have fallen in love with the warm, humorous, and thoughtful way he shows how philosophy resonates in everyday life. Readers of his popular books Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar ... and... Read more

An Integral View of Spiritual Experience

By: Steve McIntosh, J.D.

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A spiritual experience has been described by some as an encounter with the presence of the infinite within our finite universe of time and space. It takes on many forms and can be conceived of in a wide variety of ways.Here Steve McIntosh addresses such questions as: How do we gain a deeper understanding of such a spiritual experience and why is... Read more

I Ching

By: David Hinton

Narrated by: Tom Zingarelli

Length: 2 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

In a radically new translation and interpretation of the I Ching, David Hinton strips this ancient Chinese masterwork of the usual apparatus and discovers a deeply poetic and philosophical text. Teasing out an elegant vision of the cosmos as ever-changing yet harmonious, Hinton reveals the seed from which Chinese philosophy, poetry, and painting... Read more

The Ecology of Law

By: Fritjof Capra & Ugo Mattei

Narrated by: Jeff Hoyt

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE 2015 IBPA BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AWARD IN POLITICS/CURRENT EVENTS

The Ecology of Law

Fritjof Capra and Ugo Mattei argue that at the root of many of the environmental, economic, and social crises we face today is a legal system based on an obsolete worldview. Capra, a bestselling author, physicist, and systems theorist, and Mattei, a... Read more

Plunkitt of Tammany Hall

By: George Washington Plunkitt

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In the days of Tammany Hall, politicians like George Washington Plunkitt spent their careers in service to the city--but first and foremost in the service of the political machine. Plunkitt seems never to have doubted exactly where he stood on the deeply corrupt, yet amazingly effective politics and government in which he spent his life; he was... Read more

Strangers Drowning

By: Larissa MacFarquhar

Narrated by: Larissa MacFarquhar

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

What does it mean to devote yourself wholly to helping others? In Strangers Drowning, Larissa MacFarquhar seeks out people living lives of extreme ethical commitment and tells their deeply intimate stories; their stubborn integrity and their compromises; their bravery and their recklessness; their joys and defeats and wrenching dilemmas.

A... Read more

The Theater of War

By: Bryan Doerries

Narrated by: Adam Driver

Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

This compassionate, personal, and illuminating work of nonfiction draws on the author’s celebrated work as a director of socially conscious theater to connect listeners with the power of an ancient artistic tradition.For years, Bryan Doerries has been producing ancient tragedies for current and returned servicemen and women, addicts, tornado and... Read more

Rousseau and Revolution

By: Will Durant & Ariel Durant

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 57 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The Pulitzer Prize–winning volume on European civilization by acclaimed historians Will and Ariel DurantRousseau and Revolution, the tenth volume of the Story of Civilization, ranges over a Europe in ferment, but centers on the passionate rebel—philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the great exponent of the romantic impulse toward self-exploration... Read more

Understanding Beliefs

By: Nils J. Nilsson

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 2 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series Our beliefs constitute a large part of our knowledge of the world. We have beliefs about objects, about... Read more

Au nom du père, du fils et de la crème glacée - Abridged

By: Pierre Morency

Narrated by: Pierre Morency

Length: 1 hour 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Après avoir secoué un certain nombre de nos croyances depuis la parution de son best-seller Demandez et vous recevrez, Pierre Morency s'attaque ici de plein fouet aux fondements des écrits religieux et à la relation des humains avec le Père. Son postulat ? Dieu est content lorsque nous sommes gros, pauvres, malades et misérables. Il ne veut pas... Read more

The Buddha's Way of Happiness

By: Thomas Bien

Narrated by: Stephen Paul Aulridge, Jr.

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The excitement you feel after hearing good news or achieving a goal is fleeting, but true happiness - that is, the warm feeling of deep contentment and joy - is lasting, and it can be yours in every moment. The Buddha's Way of Happiness is a guide to putting aside your anxieties about the future, regrets about the past, and constant longing to... Read more

Paradox

By: Margaret Cuonzo

Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin

Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Thinkers have been fascinated by paradox since long before Aristotle grappled with Zeno's. In this volume in The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Margaret Cuonzo explores paradoxes and the strategies used to solve them. She finds that paradoxes are more than mere puzzles but can prompt new ways of thinking. A paradox can be defined as a set... Read more

Ein glückliches Leben

By: Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Narrated by: Uwe Neumann & Anette Daugardt

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

Auf der Suche nach einem glücklichen Leben ist der Mensch seit jeher. Was Glück bedeutet, das hat sich allerdings geändert und ist auch heute so unterschiedlich wie die Lebenswelten der Menschen. Läßt sich vor diesem Hintergrund überhaupt sinnvoll von dem Glück reden, lassen sich Regeln und Maximen aufstellen, die zu einem gelingenden, einem... Read more

Die Gemütsruhe

By: Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Narrated by: Uwe Neumann & Anette Daugardt

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Seneca, der große stoische Philosoph und Staatsmann, wird von seinem Freund Serenus wie ein Arzt angesprochen: »Heile mich, Seneca, von meinem Makel im Innersten!« Seine Seele fühlt sich beklemmt. Serenus beschreibt seine innere Unruhe, den Wankelmut, das innere Schwanken und daraus resultierend seinen Missmut und seine Unzufriedenheit. Seneca... Read more

Wages of Rebellion

By: Chris Hedges

Narrated by: David de Vries

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Revolutions come in waves and cycles. We are again riding the crest of a revolutionary epic, much like 1848 or 1917, from the Arab Spring to movements against austerity in Greece to the Occupy movement. In Wages of Rebellion, Chris Hedges—who has chronicled the malaise and sickness of a society in terminal moral decline in his books Empire of... Read more

The Lucifer Principle

By: Howard Bloom

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 12 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The Lucifer Priciple is a revolutionary work that explores the intricate relationships among genetics, human behavior, and culture to put forth the thesis that “evil” is a by-product of nature’s strategies for creation and that it is woven into our most basic biological fabric. Though this argument is not a new one—it has been brought forth by... Read more