Philosophy audiobooks

Plato's Apology

By: Plato

Narrated by: Albert A. Anderson

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

Socrates is on trial for his life. He is charged with impiety and corrupting young people. He presents his own defense, explaining why he has devoted his life to challenging the most powerful and important people in the Greek world. The reason is that rich and famous politicians, priests, poets, and a host of others pretend to know what is good,... Read more

Plato's Phaedo

By: Plato

Narrated by: Albert A. Anderson

Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Socrates is in prison, sentenced to die when the sun sets. In this final conversation, he asks what will become of him once he drinks the poison prescribed for his execution. Socrates and his friends examine several arguments designed to prove that the soul is immortal. This quest leads him to the broader topic of the nature of mind and its... Read more

Plato's Crito

By: Plato

Narrated by: Albert A. Anderson

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

After Socrates is sentenced to death by the Athenian court, his friend Crito comes to the prison to help him escape and go to another country. Socrates responds by saying that he would accept Crito’s offer only if he can be convinced that it is right and just to do so. This dialogue is not only about Socrates’ particular choice but also about... Read more

Many Lives, Many Masters - Abridged

By: Brian L. Weiss

Narrated by: Brian L. Weiss

Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From author and psychotherapist Dr. Brian Weiss comes the classic New York Times bestseller on the true case of the past-life therapy that changed the lives of both the prominent psychiatrist and young patient involved—now featuring a new afterword by the author.

As a traditional psychotherapist, Dr. Brian Weiss was astonished and skeptical when... Read more

Chain of Command - Abridged

By: Seymour M. Hersh

Narrated by: Peter Friedman

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Since September 11, 2001, Seymour M. Hersh has riveted readers -- and outraged the Bush Administration -- with his stories in The New Yorker magazine, including his breakthrough pieces on the Abu Gharaib prison scandal. Now, in Chain of Command, he brings together this reporting, along with new revelations, to answer the critical question of the... Read more

Enjoying Success In Every Moment

By: Guy Finley

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Too often we feel caught in a maze where we endlessly search for success and happiness and try to avoid fear and anxiety. Guy Finley has discovered a way out of that maze. "Until we redefine the purpose of our being," he says, "we're caught in a race in which we cross a finish line only to hear a starting gun go off again." Read more

Meditation Made Easy - Abridged

By: Lorin Roche

Narrated by: Lorin Roche

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“I prefer it to any other guide, including the one I wrote.” - James Fadiman, Ph.D., author of Personality and Personal GrowthMeditation: It's Easier than you think. You've probably heard about the benefits of meditation: Sharper thinking, reduced stress, improved concentration, lower blood pressure, even increased sexual pleasure. So what's... Read more

Mind Wide Open

By: Steven Johnson

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

BRILLIANTLY EXPLORING TODAY'S CUTTING-EDGE BRAIN RESEARCH, MIND WIDE OPEN IS AN UNPRECEDENTED JOURNEY INTO THE ESSENCE OF HUMAN PERSONALITY, ALLOWING READERS TO UNDERSTAND THEMSELVES AND THE PEOPLE IN THEIR LIVES AS NEVER BEFORE.



Using a mix of experiential reportage, personal storytelling, and fresh scientific discovery, Steven Johnson describes... Read more

Rumsfeld's War

By: Rowan Scarborough

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The man in the cockpit fighting the war on terror.



When terrorists crashed a plane into the Pentagon, he was there-helping carry the wounded to safety. And he's been there-leading the war on terror, directing its operations around the world in both open and covert missions, and bluntly focusing on one primary goal: killing terrorists. He is... Read more

Dark Nights of the Soul

By: Thomas Moore

Narrated by: Thomas Moore

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Every human life is made up of the light and the dark, the happy and the sad, the vital and the deadening. How you think about this rhythm of moods makes all the difference.

Our lives are filled with emotional tunnels: the loss of a loved one or end of a relationship, aging and illness, career disappointments or just an ongoing sense of... Read more

Cosmocracy: Democracy for The Cosmos

By: Henryk Skolimowski

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Eco-philosopher Henryk Skolimowski suggests how answers to the big questions of life may be discovered within: "A new light that illumines our minds about the unity of the entire humankind." His theology of light looks ahead to our biological and spiritual evolution into beings that can subsist on light alone. Read more

Parenthood by Proxy - Abridged

By: Dr. Laura Schlessinger

Narrated by: Dr. Laura Schlessinger

Length: 2 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Parenthood by Proxy is a passionate and provocative summation of the perils of parenting and a road map to safety for America's families.Never one to shy away from tough truths, Dr. Laura marshals compelling evidence for the widespread neglect of America's children and condemns the numerous rationalizations to excuse it. Parents, special... Read more

The Essential Questions

By: Christopher Phillips

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2001, Phillips released the book Socrates' Café and started a movement that shares its title, spawning gatherings where, like the sages of old, modern-day thinkers - citizens like you and me - gather in dialogue to make sense of the choices we make as individuals and as a society. Now, he shares the insights he's gleaned from participating in... Read more

The Death of Right and Wrong

By: Tammy Bruce

Narrated by: Tammy Bruce

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

If you believe children should be seduced into warped sexual behavior by the Gay Elite, if you think confessed murderers should be set free by defense attorneys who know how to wield the race card, if you feel promiscuous gay men should be empowered to spread AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, don’t read this book.

But if you’ve always... Read more

Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea - Abridged

By: Thomas Cahill

Narrated by: Olympia Dukakis

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the fourth volume of the acclaimed Hinges of History series, Thomas Cahill brings his characteristic wit and style to a fascinating tour of ancient Greece.
The Greeks invented everything from Western warfare to mystical prayer, from logic to statecraft. Many of their achievements, particularly in art and philosophy, are widely celebrated;... Read more

A Book of Five Rings - Abridged

By: Miyamoto Musashi

Narrated by: Stanley Ralph Ross

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The classic book of strategy A Book of Five Rings is now available on CD.

Miyamoto Musashi was renowned in his own time as an invincible warrior, a master artisan, an author, and philosopher. Today, his philosophy is still revered by the Japanese and used as a guide for daily decision-making—and business strategy. He wrote A Book of Five Rings... Read more

The Hero with a Thousand Faces - Abridged

By: Joseph Campbell

Narrated by: Ralph Blum

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Joseph Cambell transformed forever the way we view mythology, as he wove traditional wisdom together with the modern struggle for identity and spiritual depth. This adaptation of his all-time bestseller gives new life to his brilliant poetic vision. The Adventure of the Hero, part one, describes the universal image of the hero and shows that... Read more

Creating True Peace - Abridged

By: Thich Nhat Hanh

Narrated by: Michael York

Length: 4 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Creating True Peace is both a profound work of spiritual guidance and a practical blueprint for peaceful inner change and global change. It is Thich Nhat Hanh's answer to our deep-rooted crisis of violence and our feelings of helplessness, victimization, and fear.

As a world-renowned writer, scholar, spiritual leader, and Zen Buddhist monk,... Read more

Exploring The Dark Night Of The Soul

By: Marabai Starr

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Starr gets personal, diving deep into her own journey, sharing her pain and passion of the dark night of the soul, and the refuge she found in exploring the wisdom of these ancient texts. “The dark night of the soul is about the spiritual value of suffering and the stripping away of everything we have ever believed and relied upon.” Starr shares... Read more

The Death of Right and Wrong - Abridged

By: Tammy Bruce

Narrated by: Tammy Bruce

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: Yes

If you believe children should be seduced into warped sexual behavior by the Gay Elite, if you think confessed murderers should be set free by defense attorneys who know how to wield the race card, if you feel promiscuous gay men should be empowered to spread AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, don’t read this book.

But if you’ve always... Read more

Sailing the Wine Dark Sea

By: Thomas Cahill

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, his fourth volume to explore “the hinges of history,” Thomas Cahill escorts the reader on another entertaining—and historically unassailable—journey through the landmarks of art and bloodshed that defined Greek culture nearly three millennia ago.

In the city-states of Athens and Sparta and throughout the Greek... Read more

The Tao of Physics - Abridged

By: Fritjof Capra

Narrated by: Michael McConnohie

Length: 3 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Science does not need mysticism and mysticism does not need science, but man needs both." —Fritjof Capra, Ph.D.
Their paths to the truth could not be more different—but the amazing thing is that, in their own ways, the mystics and the scientists are discovering the same truths about our world. In non-technical language, with no complex... Read more

The Path to Enlightenment - Abridged

By: Dalai Lama

Narrated by: Ken McLeod

Length: 3 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this extensive lesson, Tenzin Gyatso, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, beautifully elucidates the meaning of the path to enlightenment.

His discourse arises from the Third Dalai Lama's brilliant and powerful work, Essence of Refined Gold, a classic text that summarizes the meaning of all Buddha's teachings. The subject of Essence is the Lam Rim, a... Read more

Discours sur la servitude volontaire

By: Étienne de La Boétie

Narrated by: Denis Podalydes

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Étienne de la Boétie écrit le Discours sur la servitude volontaire en 1549 alors qu'il n'a que 18 ans. Si la question est politique, l'auteur ne se contente pas de critiquer les régimes tyranniques, il questionne aussi l'agent politique, celui qui est gouverné : comment peut-il se faire que « tant d'hommes, tant de bourgs, tant de villes, tant... Read more