Philosophy audiobooks
On the Social Contract
By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Narrated by: Erik Sandvold
Length: 5 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
“Man was born free, but everywhere he is in chains.” Thus begins Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s influential 1762 work, On the Social Contract, a milestone of political science and essential reading for students of history, philosophy, and social science. A progressive work, it inspired worldwide political reforms, most notably the American and French... Read more
View audiobookOvercoming the Power of Difficult and Dangerous People
By: Shirley Hancen
Length: 2 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Men are not disturbed by things that happen, but by their opinions of the things that happen. Epictetus Blessed is the man who fi nds wisdom, the man who gains understanding for she (wisdom) is more profi table than silver or gold. She (wisdom) is more precious than rubies – nothing you desire can compare with her – her ways are pleasant... Read more
View audiobookThe Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
By: Alain de Botton
Narrated by: David Colacci
Length: 6 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
We spend most of our waking lives at work—in occupations most often chosen by our inexperienced younger selves. And yet we rarely ask ourselves how we got there or what our jobs mean to us. The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work is an exploration of the joys and perils of the modern workplace, beautifully exploring what other people wake up to do... Read more
View audiobookThe Doors of Perception
By: Aldous Huxley
Narrated by: Rudolph Schirmer
Length: 2 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
The critically acclaimed novelist and social critic Aldous Huxley describes his personal experimentation with the drug mescaline and explores the nature of visionary experience. The title of this classic comes from William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: “If the doors of perception were cleansed, every thing would appear to man as it... Read more
View audiobookThe Noticer
By: Andy Andrews
Narrated by: Andy Andrews
Length: 4 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times bestseller! From the author of The Traveler’s Gift comes a story of common wisdom based on the remarkable true story of “Jones,” a mysterious old man who has a knack for showing up in people's lives at just the right time, providing priceless lessons about love, life, and the importance of perspective.Orange Beach, Alabama, is a... Read more
View audiobookWem gehört das Sterben? - Abridged
By: Jürgen Mittelstraß
Narrated by: Jürgen Mittelstraß
Length: 58 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Es gibt Dinge, die sich auch in einer verwissenschaftlichen Welt dem wissenschaftlichen Zugriff entziehen. Dazu gehört auch das Sterben. Der Vortrag geht Fragen der Endlichkeit und unterschiedlichen Gestalten des Lebens, zu denen auch das Alter gehört, nach und befasst sich mit dem, was dem Menschen verfügbar, und dem, was dem Menschen... Read more
View audiobookGrenzen des Wissens und der Wissenschaft - Abridged
By: Jürgen Mittelstraß
Narrated by: Jürgen Mittelstraß
Length: 55 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Grenzen des Wissens sind sowohl für den Alltagsverstand als auch für die Wissenschaft etwas Vertrautes; sie machen die Erfahrung der Endlichkeit aus. In der Wissenschaft können sie aber auch Ausdruck von etwas Vollständigem oder Vollkommenen sein die Wissenschaft weiß (irgendwann) alles und kommt deshalb zu einem Ende. Im Gegensatz dazu steht... Read more
View audiobookWas ist der Mensch? - Abridged
By: Jürgen Mittelstraß
Narrated by: Jürgen Mittelstraß
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Der Mensch ist sich selbst noch immer das rätselhafteste Wesen. Daran ändern auch die Fortschritte der Wissenschaften vom Menschen nichts. Es kommt darauf an, jenseits einer Absolutsetzung entweder biologischer Erklärungen (Biologismus) oder kultureller Erklärungen (Kulturalismus), die sich auf das Leben und die Gesetze, unter die das Leben... Read more
View audiobookAristoteles - Abridged
By: Aristoteles
Narrated by: Andreas Dietrich
Length: 2 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Aristoteles, einer der bedeutendsten Philosophen, lebte von 384 - 322 v. Chr. Er war Schüler Platons und Lehrer Alexanders des Großen. Für seinen Sohn Nikomachos schrieb er einen Leitfaden zum rechten Leben, der als "Nikomachische Ethik" eins der Hauptwerke der philosophischen Ethik wurde. Im Abschnitt über die menschlichen Gemeinschaften... Read more
View audiobookGlanz und Elend der Geisteswissenschaften - Abridged
By: Jürgen Mittelstraß
Narrated by: Jürgen Mittelstraß
Length: 58 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Die Geisteswissenschaften haben es schwer mit ihren wissenschaftlichen Nachbarn und mit sich selbst. Der Mythos von den zwei Kulturen, der naturwissenschaftlichen und der geisteswissenschaftlichen Kultur, macht sie zu Nachzüglern des wissenschaftlichen und gesellschaftlichen Fortschritts. Dabei geht es in den Geisteswissenschaften um die... Read more
View audiobookDis papa, l'amour c'est quoi - Abridged
By: Jacques Salomé
Narrated by: Jacques Salomé
Length: 1 hour 12 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Mon propos s'adresse essentiellement à des femmes et à des hommes qui souhaiteraient, dans leurs réponses ou leurs tentatives d'exploration du vaste sujet de l'amour, ne pas leurrer leurs enfants, ou veiller à ne pas entretenir des mythologies et des fables, des songes et des mensonges, autour de ce qui est peut-être la plus belle aventure... Read more
View audiobookFeel First/Think Later, Finding Your Way to Emotional Freedom
By: Raphael Cushnir
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Are there places in your life where you feel blocked? Is your career or your relationship not what you thought it would be? Are you still struggling with an addiction to smoking or food? Raphael Cushnir believes that whenever we struggle, or whenever we feel unable to accomplish the things that matter to us, there’s an emotion waiting to be... Read more
View audiobookThe Natural Mind - Waking Up
By: Alan Orr
Narrated by: Alan Orr
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Imagine if just by reading one book you could transform your thinking, open your mind to new possibilities and embark on a mind adventure on a voyage of self discovery that will not only benefit you, your loved ones, friends and family but has the power to benefit humanity. This is that book.
The journey of personal deconstruction is not an easy... Read more
The Virtue of Selfishness
By: Ayn Rand & Nathaniel Branden
Narrated by: C. M. Hébert
Length: 6 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
The provocative title of Ayn Rand’s The Virtue of Selfishness introduces an equally provocative thesis about ethics. Traditional ethics has always been suspicious of self-interest, praising acts that are selfless in intent and calling acts that are motivated by self-interest amoral or immoral. Ayn Rand’s view is exactly the opposite.This... Read more
View audiobookThe Architecture of Happiness
By: Alain de Botton
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 4 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
The Architecture of Happiness is a dazzling journey through the philosophy and psychology of architecture and the indelible connection between our identities and our locations.One of the great but often unmentioned causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kinds of walls, chairs, buildings, and streets that... Read more
View audiobookThe Second Book of the Tao
By: Stephen Mitchell
Narrated by: Stephen Mitchell
Length: 2 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
"A twenty-first-century form of ancient wisdom . . . Mitchell's flights, his paradoxes, his wonderful riffs are brilliant and liberating." -Pico Iyer
The most widely translated book in world literature after the Bible, Lao-tzu's Tao Te Ching, or Book of the Way, is the classic manual on the art of living. Following the phenomenal success of... Read more
Looking Deeply At Our Relationship With Money
By: Vicki Robin
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
You've worked hard all these years, believing you were working to support yourself, your family, your future. But in reality, Vicki Robin tells us, the current economic crisis makes it clear that most of us have been working to support the economic system-a system that is now in a downward spiral. Read more
View audiobookFinding a Deeper Satisfaction in Our Work, Relationships, and Ourselves
By: David Whyte
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Did you know you are currently in at least two, and possibly three marriages? In addition to your relationship with your significant other, you have equally profound relationships with yourself and with your work. When you examine these three areas of your life through the discerning eye of poet David Whyte, you'll find a wealth of opportunity... Read more
View audiobookLa mente en la materia
By: Fred Alan Wolf
Narrated by: Francisco Rivela
Length: 5 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Los antiguos alquimistas intentaron encontrar el sentido del Universo buscando descubrir la conexion entre la mente y la materia. Algunos cientificos contemporaneos, en particular en el campo de la fisica cuantica, siguen el mismo camino. En esta reciente contribucion al estudio de la conciencia, el fisico Fred AlanWolf revela lo que el denomina... Read more
View audiobookDe geschiedenis van research en onderzoek
By: L. Ron Hubbard
Narrated by: Golden Era Productions
Length: 58 minutes
Abridged: No
L. Ron Hubbard onderzocht de geschiedenis van de research door de Mens op het gebied van de menselijke geest. Toen er mechanische technologieën opkwamen, kwam er niets dergelijks naar voren om religie in de sfeer van dagelijkse toepassing te brengen. Voor zowel het individu als voor de Mensheid betekent de komst van Scientology daarom alles,... Read more
View audiobookΗ Ιστορία της Διανοητικής και της Σαηεντολογίας
By: L. Ron Hubbard
Narrated by: Golden Era Productions
Length: 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Ξεκίνησε από τα περιπετειώδη νεανικά χρόνια του στη σκληρή αµερικανική Δύση κι έφτασε µέχρι τη µακρινή του περιπλάνηση στη µυστηριώδη Ασία κι από την εικοσαετή του έρευνα για την ουσία της ζωής έφτασε µέχρι το θρίαµβο της Διανοητικής και της Σαηεντολογίας. Αυτή είναι η ιστορία που αφηγείται ο Λ. Ρον Χάμπαρντ σε µια διάλεξη τόσο θρυλική, που... Read more
View audiobookתולדות המחקר והחקירה
By: L. Ron Hubbard
Narrated by: Golden Era Productions
Length: 54 minutes
Abridged: No
תולדות המחקר והחקירה
ל. רון האברד חוקר את ההיסטוריה של המחקר והחקירה של האדם בתחום נפש האדם. עם התקדמותן של טכנולוגיות מכניות, לא צצה אף מקבילה שתקדם את הדת אל היישום היומיומי.לכן, להופעתה של סיינטולוגיה יש משמעות עצומה עבור האדם היחיד ועבור המין האנושי כאחת, כי כאן נמצאת הדת הראשונה בעולם שהיא לגמרי מעשית, שמספקת לכל אחד תשובות מעשיות שהוא יכול... Read more
Het verhaal van Dianetics en Scientology
By: L. Ron Hubbard
Narrated by: Golden Era Productions
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Van zijn avontuurlijke jeugd in het ruige Amerikaanse Westen, tot aan zijn verafgelegen tocht door een toen nog mysterieus Azië; van zijn twintigjarige zoektocht naar de essentie van het leven tot aan de triomf van Dianetics en Scientology – dat is het verhaal dat uitvoerig wordt verteld in een lezing die zo legendarisch is, dat hij al door... Read more
View audiobookDe Hoop van de Mens
By: L. Ron Hubbard
Narrated by: Golden Era Productions
Length: 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Met aantoonbare bewijzen in plaats van louter geloven, stelde L. Ron Hubbard vast dat er inderdaad een onsterfelijke ziel met oneindige voortbestaanskracht is – een bewustzijn van bewustzijnseenheid die de persoon zelf is. Met de wetenschap die de technologie verschafte waarmee de ziel voor de Mens gevonden werd, die hem lang ontzegd was, werden... Read more
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