Philosophy audiobooks

Gandhis Evangelium der Gewaltlosigkeit (Ahimsa) - Abridged

By: Ram A. Mall

Narrated by: Ram A. Mall

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Gandhis Evangelium der Gewaltlosigkeit als Hörbuch einer Philiosophie-Vorlesung mit Prof. Dr. Ram A. Mall: WAS IST GEWALTLOSIGKEIT (AHIMSA)? Gewaltlosigkeit ist weder ein Dogma noch eine bloße Ideologie, auch nicht eine reine Utopie, sondern ein allumfassendes Ideal der Minimierung der Gewalt auf allen Ebenen des menschlichen Verhaltens.... Read more

Philosophie: Zur Theorie und Praxis der Toleranz - Abridged

By: Ram A. Mall

Narrated by: Ram A. Mall

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Zur Theorie und Praxis der Toleranz - Philosophie mit Prof. Dr. Ram A. Mall: WAS IST TOLERANZ HEUTE IM WELTKULTURELLEN, WELTPHILOSOPHISCHEN, WELTPOLITISCHEN UND WELTRELIGIÖSEN KONTEXT? Toleranz ist eine Tugend, die das eine Wahre, Gute und Schöne in vielen Gestalten zulässt. IST TOLERANZ GRENZENLOS ODER GIBT ES GRENZEN DER TOLERANZ?... Read more

The Way of the World

By: Ron Suskind

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 16 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

From Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and bestselling author Ron Suskind comes a startling look at how America lost its way and at the nation's struggle, day by day, to reclaim the moral authority upon which its survival depends. From the White House to Downing Street, from the fault-line countries of South Asia to the sands of Guantánamo,... Read more

The Seekers - Abridged

By: Daniel J. Boorstin

Narrated by: Denis deBoisblanc

Length: 4 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
From the author of The Discoverers and The Creators, an incomparable history of man's essential questions: "Who are we?" and "Why are we here?" Read more

What Is Art?

By: Leo Tolstoy

Narrated by: Geoffrey Blaisdell

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

What Is Art? is the result of fifteen years’ reflection on the nature and purpose of art.Tolstoy claims that all good art is related to the authentic life of the broader community and that the aesthetic value of a work of art is not independent of its moral content. The book is noteworthy not only for its famous iconoclasm and compelling attacks... Read more

As Luck Would Have It

By: Joshua Piven

Narrated by: J. P. Guimont

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Once upon a time, there was a swimming-pool repairman who only had a hundred-dollar bill to pay for a hot dog, requested the change in lottery tickets, and subsequently won $180 million. Strange, but ultimately true. In this insightful, thoroughly entertaining book, countless similar case studies of "as luck would have it …" are presented,... Read more

The Romantic Manifesto

By: Ayn Rand

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In this beautifully written and brilliantly reasoned collection of essays, Ayn Rand throws new light on the nature of art and its purpose in human life. Once again, Rand demonstrates her bold originality and her refusal to let popular catchphrases and conventional ideas define her sense of the truth.In her ethics AynRand extolled the virtue of... Read more

Mein Lieblingsphilosoph - Abridged

By: Christian Schlesiger

Narrated by: Gerald Drews & Christian Schlesiger

Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Sokrates - Platon - Augustinus - Descartes - Kant - Hegel - Schopenhauer - Kierkegaard - Nietzsche - Heidegger - Sartre - Popper - Sloterdijk ... Eine kleine Zeitreise durch die Geschichte der abendländischen Philosophie. Von den Vorsokratikern bis zur Dekonstruktion stellt die Autorin bedeutende Philosophen und maßgebliche Strömungen... Read more

Schopenhauer für Anfänger - Abridged

By: Susanne Möbuß

Narrated by: Martin Umbach

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Arthur Schopenhauers Hauptwerk "Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung" zählt zu den wirkungsmächtigsten philosophischen Schriften des 19. Jahrhunderts. Dies gilt nicht nur für den Bereich der Philosophie, sondern auch für Literatur und Kunst, für Psychologie und Anthropologie bis hin zur Sozialforschung. Das vorliegende Hörbuch bietet sich als... Read more

The City of God

By: Aurelius Augustinus

Narrated by: Bernard Mayes

Length: 47 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Written between AD 413 and 426, The City of God is one of the great cornerstones in the history of Christian thought, a book vital to understanding modern Western society. Augustine originally intended it to be an apology for Christianity against the accusation that the Church was responsible for the decline of the Roman Empire. Indeed,... Read more

Wiser in Battle - Abridged

By: Ricardo S. Sanchez

Narrated by: Ricardo S. Sanchez

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Amidst all of the criticisms of America's war in Iraq, one essential voice has remained silent . . . until now. In his groundbreaking new memoir, Wiser in Battle, LTG (Ret) Ricardo S. Sanchez, former Commander of Coalition Forces in Iraq, reports back from the front lines of the global War on Terror to provide a comprehensive and chilling... Read more

The Revolution

By: Ron Paul

Narrated by: Bob Craig

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

This Much Is True: You Have Been Lied To.

The government is expanding. Taxes are increasing. More senseless wars are being planned. Inflation is ballooning. Our basic freedoms are disappearing.
The Founding Fathers didn't want any of this. In fact, they said so quite clearly in the Constitution of the United States of America.... Read more

Liberal Fascism

By: Jonah Goldberg

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 15 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

"Fascists," "Brownshirts," "jackbooted stormtroopers"—such are the insults typically hurled at conservatives by their liberal opponents. Calling someone a fascist is the fastest way to shut them up, defining their views as beyond the political pale. But who are the real fascists in our midst?

Liberal Fascism offers a startling new perspective... Read more

Democracy in America

By: Alexis de Tocqueville

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 4 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1831, a Frenchman named Alexis de Tocqueville arrived in New York convinced that the democratic spirit America had embraced would eventually spread across Europe. Democracy in America, a treatise on democratic government written from his fresh perspective as an outsider, is now a classic document of political history. Read more

The Republic: Book VII

By: Plato

Narrated by: Adrian Cronauer

Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

"Behold! Human beings living in an underground den. Like ourselves, they see only their own shadows, or the shadows of one another, which the fire throws on the opposite wall of the cave." With that statement, Plato - one of the greatest thinkers in the history of mankind - introduces one of his of most important philosophical constructs: the... Read more

On Truth

By: Harry G. Frankfurt

Narrated by: George Wilson

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Having outlined a theory of bullshit and falsehood, Harry G. Frankfurt turns to what lies beyond them: the truth, a concept not as obvious as some might expect. Our culture's devotion to bullshit may seem much stronger than our apparently halfhearted attachment to truth. Some people (professional thinkers) won't even acknowledge "true" and... Read more

The Philosophical Dictionary

By: Voltaire

Narrated by: Donal Donnelly

Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

-A collection of Voltaire's ideas and thoughts that were too short for pamphlets but worth saving for later development-wise and witty entries on subjects as diverse as atheism and kissing. Read more

Tao Te King

By: Lao Tseu

Narrated by: Michaël Lonsdale

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Le Tao Te King, traduit souvent pas Livre de la joie et de la vertu, fut considéré comme le texte fondateur de l'école, puis de la religion taoiste. Son auteur, Lao Tseu, serait né au VIème siècle avant J-C, mais rien n'établit clairement son existence. Il aurait été contemporain de Confucius et c'est en réponse aux principes de ce maître qu'il... Read more

The Faith

By: Charles W. Colson & Harold Fickett III

Narrated by: Charles W. Colson

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Rightly understood and rightly communicated, the Christian faith is one of great joy. It is an invitation to God's kingdom, where tears are replaced by laughter and longing hearts find their purpose and their home.This is the heart of the gospel: God's search to reclaim us and love us as his own. But have we truly grasped this? Those of us who... Read more

Adorno - Abridged

By: Christoph Demmerling

Narrated by: Christoph Demmerling

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Die Dichte von Adornos Texten erfordert eine Art von Aufmerksamkeit, die der Aufmarksamkeit beim analytischen Hören eines Musikstücks vergleichbar ist. Auch deshalb, und nicht nur, weil die Musik ein wichtiges Sujet der philosophischen Arbeit Adornos ist, würde sich die von ihm gelegentlich gebrauchte Formulierung "mit den Ohren denken" als... Read more

The Final Days of Socrates

By: Plato

Narrated by: Ray Atherton & Donal Donnelly

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The trial and condemnation of Socrates (469-399 B.C.) is one of the most tragic episodes in the history of Athens' decline. Plato, Socrates' most devoted disciple, has preserved for us the essence of the teaching and logical system of question-and-answer of western civilization's purest intellect in this sequence of four works: Euthyphro, The... Read more

The Art of War

By: Sun Tzu

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Master Sun said: “Ultimate excellence lies not in winning every battle but in defeating the enemy without ever fighting.”For more than two thousand years, The Art of War has stood as a cornerstone of Chinese culture, a lucid text that reveals as much about psychology, politics, and economics as it does about battlefield strategy. For those... Read more

The Histories

By: Caius Cornelius Tacitus

Narrated by: James Adams

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Caius Cornelius Tacitus, a Roman orator and public official, is considered one of the greatest historians as well as one of the greatest prose stylists of the Latin language. In The Histories, he describes and interprets the period in which he lived, beginning with the political situation that followed Nero's death in AD 69 and ending with the... Read more

Aristotle's Children

By: Richard E. Rubenstein

Narrated by: Nelson Runger

Length: 13 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Europe was in the long slumber of the Middle Ages, the Roman Empire was in tatters, and the Greek language was all but forgotten, until a group of twelfth-century scholars rediscovered and translated the works of Aristotle. His ideas spread like wildfire across Europe, offering the scientific view that the natural world, including the soul of... Read more