Philosophy audiobooks

The Matrix and Philosophy - Abridged

By: William Irwin

Narrated by: Oliver Wyman, Rick Adamson & Jennifer Jay Myers

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Matrix conveys the horror of a false world made of nothing but perceptions. Based on the premise that reality is a dream controlled by malevolent forces, it is one of the most overtly philosophical movies ever to come out of Hollywood. These thought-provoking essays by the same team of young philosophers who created The Simpsons and... Read more

Walking the Indigenous Way in Contemporary Times

By: Leslie Gray

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

How do you find balance and inner peace in a world rocked by instability? In the telling of her story, shamanic psychologist Leslie Gray speaks to the importance of learning from our past, and takes us on a journey to an indigenous world, where the earth is honored and people live together in peace on the great turtle island. Read more

How to Practice

By: His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Narrated by: Jeffrey Hopkins

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

As human beings, we all share the desire for happiness and meaning in our lives. According to His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the ability to find true fulfillment lies within each of us. In this very special book, the spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet, Nobel Prize winner, and bestselling author helps readers embark upon the path to... Read more

Rediscovering America's Founding Principles

By: Jacob Needleman

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

American democracy has existed for more than two hundred years, surviving challenges, betrayals, bashing, bloody wars, and the tragic attacks of September 11, 2001.Here Jacob Needleman explores the sacred meaning of America. Read more

Christ

By: Jack Miles

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

With the same passionate scholarship and analytical audacity he brought to the character of God, Jack Miles now approaches the literary and theological enigma of Jesus. In so doing, he tells the story of a broken promise–God’s ancient covenant with Israel–and of its strange, unlooked-for fulfillment. For, having abandoned his chosen people to... Read more

The Infinite Field Of Possibilities: Viewing Change Through A Kaleidoscope

By: Angeles Arrien, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Eastern philosophy tells us that the only constant in life is change. We move into our day feeling secure about the future, then suddenly we are faced with a catastrophe. A new world is born and our lives are forever altered. In these times of transition what do we do? How do we move beyond fear and anger to live heartfully in the field of... Read more

The Soul Of America

By: Jacob Needleman, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Jacob Needleman, internationally acclaimed author and philosopher, takes us on a journey back to the beginning of America and re-tells the story of America in a way that inspires and invites us to explore the lives of our forefathers and the sacred dimension of their founding principles. Read more

The Glance

By: Jalaluddin Rumi & Coleman Barks

Narrated by: Coleman Barks & Various

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the great icons of mysticism, by the Persian poet who has captured today’s spiritual audience—now in a first-ever English translation by his premier interpreter. In an intriguing and deeply personal introduction to the exquisitely packaged The Glance, Coleman Barks interprets this love that transcends time, gender, sex, and age. This... Read more

Thinking Together: A Socratic Dialogue

By: Christopher Phillips

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1996, Phillips started on a journey across America introducing his love of questions, using the Socratic method, to anyone who was interested.  In creating his first Socrates Café, he created an atmosphere of free exchange and energetic thinking, reviving the pleasures of examining one's most cherished beliefs. Read more

De l'amitié

By: Ciceron

Narrated by: Jean-Pierre Michaël

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Scaevola, vieillard et augure, rapporte à Cicéron une conversation tenue avec Laelius et Fannius sur l'amitié. Cicéron écrit alors un traité où se mêlent dialogues et récits sur le sens que doit avoir l'amitié, et la conduite qu'elle dicte aux hommes qui se réclament d'elle. Ce texte, écrit en 44 avant J.-C., s'inspire de la philosophie... Read more

Matter Of Perception, A:  Seeing Your World with Clarity

By: Susan Gregg

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Susan Gregg tells us that  "life is as it is," and our whole concept of reality is colored by what we tell ourselves about it.  She offers us an ancient Toltec formula for changing our experience of life without changing external situations. Read more

What Is Man?

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Carl Reiner

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: No

Locked in his desk for 25 years, What Is Man? was Twain's most serious, philosophical, and private work. The narrative appears in the form of a Socratic dialogue between a romantic young idealist and an elderly cynic. The pair debate issues of mankind, such as whether man is free to act or is more of a machine, whether personal merit is... Read more

What Is Your Calling?

By: Richard Leider

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Leider points out that a calling is more than just finding a job; it involves talents, passions, environment and values. Read more

The Burden of Bad Ideas

By: Heather Mac Donald

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

In closely reported stories from the streets of New York to the seats of intellectual power, MacDonald shows how bad ideas get started and then acquire a life of their own. Her reports trace the transformation of influential opinion-makers and large philanthropic foundations from confident advocates of individual responsibility, opportunity, and... Read more

Radical Son

By: David Horowitz

Narrated by: Jonathan Marosz

Length: 18 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Originally a radical socialist, the current driving force behind the rise of the Hollywood right recounts how he moved from one set of political convictions to another over the course of thirty years, and challenges readers to consider how they came by their own convictions. Read more

The Wonder of Mysticism

By: Wilson Van Dusen

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Van Dusen opens up the realm of mystical experience to all by sharing from his own personal experience in a simple, authentic style.  His eloquence and exuberant passion shine through his stories. Read more

The Bhagavad Gita

By: Stephen Mitchell

Narrated by: Stephen Mitchell

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The Bhagavad Gita is universally acknowledged as one of the world's literary and spiritual masterpieces. It is the core text of the Hindu tradition, one that has been translated into more than two hundred English editions. Stephen Mitchell—the acclaimed translator of Pablo Neruda, Rainer Maria Rilke, and the Tao Te Ching—has produced a... Read more

Escritos Y Proclamas: Simon Bolivar

By: Simon Bolivar

Narrated by: Pedro Montoya

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

El pensamiento vivo del Libertador. Simon Bolivar, el Libertador de America por antonomasia es justamente admirado, pero hay que decir que mucha gente lo considera un gran guerrero, un habil militar, pero olvidan las ideas que inspiraron a Bolivar, para convertirse en estadista guia de nuestro continente. Su prosa lucida y sus ideas se reflejan... Read more

Asi Hablo Zaratustra - Abridged

By: Friedrich Nietzsche

Narrated by: Pedro Montoya

Length: 3 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Así habló Zaratustra. Un libro para todos y para nadie (Título original en alemán: Also sprach Zarathustra. Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen) es una obra escrita entre 1883 y 1885 por el filósofo alemán Friedrich Nietzsche.

La obra contiene las principales ideas de Nietzsche, expresadas de forma poética: está compuesta por una serie de relatos y... Read more

Awakening the Buddhist Heart - Abridged

By: Lama Surya Das

Narrated by: Lama Surya Das

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Life is about relationship-the relationship we have with ourselves, with each other, with the world, as well as the connection to that which is beyond any of us yet imminent in each of us. When our relationships are good, we feel good; when they are bad, we feel awful. Let's accept it: We need each other. We need to feel connected; we need to... Read more

Lives of Moral Leadership - Abridged

By: Robert Coles

Narrated by: Harry Goz

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this rich and illuminating book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author Robert Coles creates a portrait of moral leadership--what it is, and how it is achieved--through stories of people who have led and inspired him: Robert Kennedy, Dorothy Day, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Erik Erikson, a Boston bus driver, teachers in college, medical... Read more

The Gift of Giving

By: Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspired by stories from her grandfather, an orthodox rabbi and scholar of the Kaballah, Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D., tells with wit and inspiration of her emergence from a socialistic, atheistic upbringing to a life and medical practice filled with grace, mystery and wonder. Read more

Balance Through Bodywork

By: Jon Schreiber, Angela Porter & Denise Berezonsky

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Jon Schreiber, America’s foremost Breema specialist and director of The Breema Center in Oakland, CA, discusses this unique bodywork based on nine universal principles that nurture the mind and body, guiding one towards a unified and harmonious state of well being. Read more

Healing and the Mind

By: Bill Moyers

Narrated by: Bill Moyers

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

In the best-selling companion volume to the PBS series, acclaimed television journalist Bill Moyers explores the fascinating, complex, powerful connection between mind and body in human health. Ancient medical science told us our minds and bodies are one. So did philosophers of old. Now, modern science and new research are helping us to... Read more