Philosophy audiobooks

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

Telling the Truth

By: D. A. Carson

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 16 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

"A pre-modern baseball umpire would have said something like this: 'There's balls, and there's strikes, and I call 'em as they are.' The modernist would have said, 'There's balls, and there's strikes, and I call 'em as I see 'em.' And the postmodernist umpire would say, 'They ain't nothing until I call 'em.'" With that humorous quote, Ravi... Read more

Why You Think the Way You Do

By: Glenn S. Sunshine

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

How do we come by our worldviews and philosophies? What impact did Christianity have on the worldviews that are common to Western civilization?Why You Think the Way You Do traces the development of the worldviews that underpin the Western world. Professor and historian Glenn S. Sunshine demonstrates the decisive impact that the growth of... Read more

What Can I Do?

By: David Livermore

Narrated by: Tom Parks

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

While “missions” used to be the territory of experts and missionary professionals, globalization has made the issues and needs of our world accessible to average Americans. Many American Christians feel overwhelmed by the scope of the brokenness in the world and conclude all they can do is go on with their lives. Others respond by giving and... Read more

Moral Choices

By: Scott Rae

Narrated by: Maurice England

Length: 16 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Understanding the basis of making moral choices is crucial as society becomes increasingly complex. Moral Choices: An Introduction to Ethics gives college students a solid grounding in both theory of ethics and its applications to the social issues of today. Avoiding undue dogmatism, Professor Scott B. Rae outlines the distinctive elements of... Read more

The 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

The Seven Decisions

By: Andy Andrews

Narrated by: Andy Andrews

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Just one of these decisions can alter the course of a person’s life. What if you decided to master them all? Explore the seven decisions for success first introduced in the New York Times bestselling book The Traveler’s Gift, learning how you can turn life around—no matter how hopeless it seems.In this updated and repackaged edition of Mastering... Read more

The Futilitarians

By: Anne Gisleson

Narrated by: Anne Gisleson

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A memoir of friendship and literature chronicling a search for meaning and comfort in great books, and a beautiful path out of grief.

Anne Gisleson had lost her twin sisters, had been forced to flee her home during Hurricane Katrina, and had witnessed cancer take her beloved father. Before she met her husband, Brad, he had suffered his own... Read more

Zen and Now

By: Mark Richardson

Narrated by: Buck Schirner

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1968, Robert Pirsig and his eleven-year-old son, Chris, made the cross-country motorcycle trip that would become the inspiration for Pirsig’s book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, a powerful blend of personal narrative and philosophical investigation that has inspired generations. Among the millions of readers to fall under the... Read more

What Matters Most

By: James Hollis, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Jim Bond

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Why are we here? What is the meaning of existence? What truly matters the most in life? We have all felt the looming presence of these questions, but it’s never easy to examine our life’s path and its meaning. To begin finding answers, we must start by exploring our own internal ideals, values, and beliefs. Taking a fresh look at the concept... Read more

The 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

Self-Reliance

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Narrated by: Kurt Andersen & Joyce Bean

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Redefining the classic essay, this modern edition of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s most famous work, Self-Reliance, includes self-reflections from both historical and contemporary luminaries. With quotes from the likes of Henry Ford and Helen Keller to modern-day thought leaders like Jesse Dylan, Steve Pressfield, and Milton Glaser, we’re reminded of... Read more

The Glass Cage

By: Nicholas Carr

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

At once a celebration of technology and a warning about its misuse, The Glass Cage will change the way you think about the tools you use every day.In The Glass Cage, bestselling author Nicholas Carr digs behind the headlines about factory robots and self-driving cars, wearable computers and digitized medicine, as he explores the hidden costs of... Read more

Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking

By: Daniel C. Dennett

Narrated by: Jeff Crawford

Length: 13 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Over a storied career, Daniel C. Dennett has engaged questions about science and the workings of the mind. His answers have combined rigorous argument with strong empirical grounding. And a lot of fun. Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking offers seventy-seven of Dennett’s most successful “imagination-extenders and focus-holders” meant to... 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

The Dalai Lama's Little Book of Buddhism

By: His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Narrated by: Tom Parks

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

This little audiobook contains the core teaching on Buddhism by the Dalai Lama. It includes thought-provoking quotations about the importance of love and compassion, and the need for individual responsibility, fuses ancient wisdom with an awareness of the problems of everyday life.In addition to containing the essence of Buddhism, this audiobook... Read more

Wages of Rebellion

By: Chris Hedges

Narrated by: David de Vries

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Revolutions come in waves and cycles. We are again riding the crest of a revolutionary epic, much like 1848 or 1917, from the Arab Spring to movements against austerity in Greece to the Occupy movement. In Wages of Rebellion, Chris Hedges—who has chronicled the malaise and sickness of a society in terminal moral decline in his books Empire of... Read more

Rethink

By: Steven Poole

Narrated by: Simon Mattacks

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliant and groundbreaking argument that innovation and progress are often achieved by revisiting and retooling ideas from the past rather than starting from scratch—from The Guardian columnist and contributor to The Atlantic.Innovation is not always as innovative as it may seem. This is the story of how old ideas that were mocked or ignored... Read more

The Little Things

By: Andy Andrews

Narrated by: Andy Andrews

Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Wall Street Journal BestsellerHave you ever wondered why we spend so much time and energy thinking about the big challenges in our lives when all the evidence proves it’s actually the little things that change everything?  That’s right…  Absolutely everything.Little Things embodies Andy’s own approach to life and work, detailing for the first... Read more

La 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

Consider the Lobster

By: David Foster Wallace

Narrated by: David Foster Wallace & Robert Petkoff

Length: 15 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person?

David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralling narrative adventures. Whether covering the three-ring circus of John McCain's 2000... Read more

Every Word Is a Bird We Teach to Sing

By: Daniel Tammet

Narrated by: Daniel Tammet

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A mind-expanding, deeply humane tour of language by the bestselling author of Born on a Blue Day and Thinking in Numbers.

Is vocabulary destiny? Why do clocks "talk" to the Nahua people of Mexico? Will A.I. researchers ever produce true human-machine dialogue? In this mesmerizing collection of essays, Daniel Tammet answers these and many other... Read more

Creating Freedom

By: Raoul Martinez

Narrated by: Steve West

Length: 17 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A manifesto for deep and radical change, Creating Freedom explores the limits placed on freedom by human nature and society. It explodes myths, calling for a profound transformation in the way we think about democracy, equality, and our own identities.Free markets, free elections, free media, free thought, free speech, free will—the language of... Read more

The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down

By: Haemin Sunim

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 2 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

“Is it the world that’s busy, or is it my mind?”The world moves fast, but that doesn’t mean we have to. In this bestselling mindfulness guide—it has sold more than three million copies in Korea, where it was a #1 bestseller for forty-one weeks and received multiple Best Book of the Year awards—Haemin Sunim (which means “spontaneous wisdom”), a... Read more