Philosophy audiobooks

La désobéissance civile

By: Henry Thoreau

Narrated by: Nicolas Planchais

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

La résistance et la désobéissance civile ? Un sujet toujours d'actualité. De nos jours, les Indignés, les Anonymous, les Zadistes et tant d'autres citoyens engagés et parfois révoltés veulent exprimer leurs convictions citoyennes en s'affranchissant des traditionnels relais politiques, dans un désir de démocratie directe engagée. Tous ces... Read more

L'art d'être heureux

By: Epicure

Narrated by: Nicolas Planchais

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

La Lettre à Ménécée est une lettre écrite par le philosophe Épicure à son disciple Ménécée. Le texte résume la doctrine éthique d'Épicure et propose une méthode pour atteindre le bonheur, en même temps qu'elle en précise les conditions. Avec la Lettre à Hérodote et la Lettre à Pythoclès, la Lettre à Ménécée fait partie des rares textes d'Épicure... Read more

Mastery of Life

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Narrated by: Mitch Horowitz

Length: 4 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The great writings of American transcendentalist philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) are not some distant ponderings on life – they are works of the highest practicality, intended to supply guidance and daily help. Emerson’s ideas arose from his simple observations of human existence, with all its pitfalls and possibilities. Reading and... Read more

Love Infusion: Tropical Healing Meditation

By: Max Highstein

Narrated by: Max Highstein

Length: 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Colds and flu are kind to no one. They make us feel wretched, limit our ability to function, and make it hard to enjoy life. Worst of all, they can seem to drag on forever. Yuck!If you’re sick, follow your doctor’s orders and be sure to get plenty of rest, so your body has all the energy it needs to recover. To give your immune system a boost... Read more

Mastery of Life

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Narrated by: Mitch Horowitz

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The great writings of American transcendentalist philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) are not some distant ponderings on life - they are works of the highest practicality, intended to supply guidance and daily help. Emerson's ideas arose from his simple observations of human existence, with all its pitfalls and possibilities. Reading and... Read more

The Function of Reason

By: Alfred North Whitehead

Narrated by: Albert A. Anderson

Length: 2 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Whitehead presented these three lectures at Princeton University in 1929. Although 85 years have passed, his central thesis and his analysis remain remarkably current. The scientific materialism that Whitehead opposed with such vigor continues to dominate in academic circles, and even now those who question that worldview are often accused of... Read more

L'art d'avoir toujours raison

By: Arthur Schopenhauer

Narrated by: Nicolas Planchais

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

L'Art d'avoir toujours raison (titre d'origine : " La Dialectique éristique " ) est un petit traité pratique et humoristique de mauvaise foi : de façon à la fois sarcastique et pragmatique, Schopenhauer y expose une série de stratagèmes permettant de l'emporter lors de controverses, indépendamment de la vérité du point de vue que l'on soutient.... Read more

Le diable et le bon Dieu - Abridged

By: Jean Paul Sartre

Narrated by: Pierre Brasseur, Jean Vilar, Henri Nassiet, Jea...

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Le Diable et le Bon Dieu est un drame en trois actes de Jean-Paul Sartre paru et représenté la première fois à Paris au Théâtre Antoine (direction Simone Berriau) le 7 juin 1951, dans une mise en scène de Louis Jouvet. Cette pièce, comme le laisse prévoir le titre, traite de la nature humaine, de Dieu et du Diable, et de la question " Le Bien... Read more

L'art d'aimer - Abridged

By: Ovide

Narrated by: Jean Marc Tennberg

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

L'Art d'aimer est une œuvre en vers du poète latin Ovide parue autour de l'an 1. Elle se veut une initiation à l'art de l'amour et surtout de la séduction. Avec le Kama-Sutra, le Satyricon, ou encore La Prairie parfumée, L'Art d'aimer est l'un des textes érotiques les plus connus au monde. L'ouvrage est divisé en trois Livres. Le premier... Read more

Thoughts To Get You Through The Night

By: Phil Cousineau

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Cousineau tantalizes us with his understanding of how night is a powerful companion for creativity. The quiet rhythm of the night is a holy experience of soul. He describes how language and culture arose around the fires of our ancestors talking into the night. By sharing stories and poems he takes us from the contemplative, starry night to the... Read more

The Cave and the Light

By: Arthur Herman

Narrated by: Paul Hecht

Length: 25 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Arthur Herman has now written the definitive sequel to his New York Times bestseller, How the Scots Invented the Modern World, and extends the themes of the book—which sold half a million copies worldwide—back to the ancient Greeks and forward to the age of the Internet. The Cave and the Light is a magisterial account of how the two greatest... Read more

Modern Thought in Buddhism

By: Robert Thurman

Narrated by: Robert Thurman

Length: 3 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

This Classic Course was recorded in the mid 1980's as we neared the end of the second- Christian Millenium, many prophetic voices were being raised to speak of revelation and other apocolyptic visions. Some western mystics even mentioned the future Buddha, -Maitreya, in connection with a returning Christ or Christ impulse. What do the Buddhists,... Read more

Just Babies

By: Paul Bloom

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A leading cognitive scientist argues that a deep sense of good and evil is bred in the bone.
 
From John Locke to Sigmund Freud, philosophers and psychologists have long believed that we begin life as blank moral slates. Many of us take for granted that babies are born selfish and that it is the role of society—and especially parents—to transform... Read more

Moral Tribes

By: Joshua Greene

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 14 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

“Moral Tribes is a masterpiece—a landmark work brimming with originality and insight that also happens to be wickedly fun to read. The only disappointing thing about this book is that it ends.” —Daniel Gilbert, professor of psychology, Harvard University; author of the international bestseller Stumbling on HappinessOur brains were designed for... Read more

My Son and the Afterlife

By: Elisa Medhus, MD

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Dr. Elisa Medhus never believed in life after death. As an accomplished physi­cian, she placed her faith in science. All of that changed after her son Erik took his own life and then reached out from the other side.



Intimate, heartbreaking, and illuminating, this book takes listeners on an incredible journey from grief and skepticism to healing... Read more

Two Birds in a Tree

By: Ram Nidumolu

Narrated by: Jim Manchester

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Looking back to the ancient knowledge of the Indian scripture, the Upanishads, Ram Nidumolu finds the core philosophy of sustainable leadership that's needed today. In this remarkable book, he uses a powerful parable from these scriptures to create a business vision that our world desperately needs."There are two birds, two sweet friends, who... Read more

Discipline & Punish

By: Michel Foucault

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 13 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Two hundred and fifty years ago, a man condemned of attempting to assassinate the King of France was drawn and quartered in a grisly spectacle that suggested an unmediated duel between the violence of the criminal and the violence of the state. This groundbreaking book by Michel Foucault, the most influential philosopher since Sartre, compels us... Read more

The Book of Immortality

By: Adam Leith Gollner

Narrated by: Adam Verner

Length: 15 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Raised an atheist, Adam Leith Gollner was struck by mankind's tireless efforts to cheat aging and death. In a narrative that pivots between profundity and hilarity, he brings us into the world of those whose lives are shaped by a belief in immortality. From a Jesuit priest on his deathbed to anti-aging researchers at Harvard, Gollner—sorting... Read more

The Art of Communicating

By: Thich Nhat Hanh

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 3 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Zen master Thick Nhat Hanh, bestselling author of Peace is Every Step and one of the most respected and celebrated religious leaders in the world, delivers a powerful path to happiness through mastering life's most important skill.How do we say what we mean in a way that the other person can really hear?How can we listen with compassion and... Read more

Trusting a Loving Universe

By: Connie Baxter Marlow & Andrew Cameron Bailey

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Coming from divergent life experiences, Marlow and Baliey challenge a number of basic assumptions which have driven humanity’s behavior for millennia. The main problem is that many of our beliefs are learned at a very young age and are unconscious. Read more

Thinking In Numbers

By: Daniel Tammet

Narrated by: Daniel Tammet

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The irresistibly engaging book that "enlarges one's wonder at Tammet's mind and his all-embracing vision of the world as grounded in numbers" (Oliver Sacks, MD).

Thinking in Numbers is the book that Daniel Tammet, mathematical savant and bestselling author, was born to write. In Tammet's world, numbers are beautiful and mathematics illuminates... Read more

Touching a Nerve

By: Patricia S. Churchland

Narrated by: Karen Saltus

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A trailblazing philosopher’s exploration of the latest brain science—and its ethical and practical implications. What happens when we accept that everything we feel and think stems not from an immaterial spirit but from electrical and chemical activity in our brains? In this thought-provoking narrative—drawn from professional expertise as well... Read more

Mémoire sur le paupérisme

By: Alexis de Tocqueville

Narrated by: Fabienne Prost

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Alexis-Henri-Charles Clérel, vicomte de Tocqueville, né à Paris en 1805 et mort à Cannes en 1859, est un philosophe politique et un historien. Il est le précurseur de la sociologie. Toute l'œuvre de Tocqueville repose sur la foi qu'il a pour le progrès de l'égalité et des conditions entre les êtres humains. Read more

50 Philosophy Classics

By: Tom Butler-Bowdon

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 13 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

From Aristotle to Wittgenstein and Zizek, 50 Philosophy Classics provides a lively entry point to the field of philosophy. Analyses of key works by Descartes, Schopenhauer, Hegel, Heidegger, and Nietzsche also show how philosophy helped shape the thinking and events of the last 150 years. The list also includes 20th century greats including de... Read more