Philosophy audiobooks

Being A Light To Oneself

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Four Small Group Discussions, Ojai, USA, 1972 1. Conflict and choice - 29 March 1972 Duration: 95 minutes • What do we mean by learning? • Why is one frightened of the past? • Knowing and looking at oneself. • Can that mess which is me be washed away? • How are you aware of conflict? • Choice and clarity. • Looking without any distortion. 2. A... Read more

There Is insight when thought is absent

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Public Talks 1. Can I see wholly? - 16 July 1972 Duration: 71 minutes • Do we act casually, expecting division to end as a result of outer environment? • Does change demand immediate attention and action? • Freeing of the mind from conditioning and in that freedom bringing about a cooperative action. • Can one who is conditioned by the past... Read more

Is there a movement other than the movement of thought?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 18 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Public Talks 1. What is the operation of thought? - 14 July 1974 Duration: 84 minutes • In the world around us and inside us, is there a relationship between the inner and the outer? • Are you free to listen or do you listen with interpretation and prejudices? • Do I observe the content of my consciousness as an outsider? Can one observe the... Read more

Can Thought Be Silent?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

1. Can the mind be free? - 3 February 1969 Duration: 99 minutes • The society in which we live is the result of our psychological state. • Where there is fear there is aggression. • For most of us, freedom is something that we don't want. • Inaction is total action. • What is the machinery that builds images? Questions from the audience followed... Read more

Can the mind observe without comparison?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 11 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

1. Living with a sustained seriousness - 21February 1970 Duration: 91 minutes • What does it mean to be serious? • Becoming • Why do I compare myself with you or with somebody else? • Do I look at people through images? 2. Can the brain operate without recourse to the past?- 22February 1970 Duration: 92 minutes • Is there self-progress? •... Read more

One can learn easily when there is an atmosphere of freedom and friendship

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

1. Why are you being educated? - 1 December 1965 Duration: 75 minutes • What is the function of education? • Q: Some people say that we must live now and others say that we must be concerned further, beyond the present. • Q: Can man really be human without any effort? • Q: What is the difference between affection and love? • Q: How am I to know... Read more

Interview by Frank Waters

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: No

What brings about receptivity? Speaking to the unconscious. The little self and the big self. How the teachings work. Myth. Destruction of the planet. Sleep. Kundalini. Read more

One sees or understands only when the mind is quiet.

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

1. To look without a concept is to be aware of the observer and the thing observed - 20 May 1967 Duration: 88 minutes • Violence and sorrow are not limited to the West or the East; it is part of the human structure, psychologically. • Is it possible to bring about a change radically, a total revolution in the psyche itself, not through time? •... Read more

Can thought become quiet?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

IF WE MAY, we will continue with what we were talking about yesterday. When you look at a field stretching out to the horizon - a field of tulips - words come into your mind: how beautiful it is, the colour, the brilliancy, the texture, the depth of the colour. This whole field of colour with its beauty is put into words. Or you translate it in... Read more

Can There Be Complete Freedom Of Thought?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Public Talks 1. Complete freedom from thought - 9 September 1972 Duration: 76 minutes • Learning is instant perception and action. What place has thought in learning? • To learn about freedom must thought be completely silent? Does insight into freedom take time? • Can thinking, however rational, bring about a psychological revolution in us? •... Read more

Knowledge and Learning are two Different things

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Three Public Talks 1. A radical transformation in the psyche itself - 8 November 1968 Duration: 80 minutes • To communicate we must know that the word is not the thing and also be in that state of mind whose quality is attention, care. That can only take place if we are serious. • We are the world and the world is us. To bring about a radical... Read more

Self-knowledge is the beginning of wisdom

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 12 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Seven Public Talks 1. Does self-knowledge come through searching? - 16 July 1949 Duration: 59 minutes • What is it that most of us are seeking? • Does clarity come through searching and trying to find out what others say? • Can incessant search and longing give you the extraordinary sense of reality or creative being that comes when you really... Read more

The seed of a million years

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

This series of six talks, given by Krishnamurti in Madras in 1979-80, marks a departure from his usual style of exposition. Usually in the opening talk he would dwell first on the problems of the world and then on the psychological factors underlying them. But here he starts straightaway with the most ancient quest of man to find that which is... Read more

Freedom From The Known

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Adam Behr

Length: 3 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Born in poverty in India, Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986) became a leading spiritual and philosophical thinker whose ideas continue to influence us today. George Bernard Shaw declared that he was the most beautiful human being he had ever seen and Aldous Huxley was one of his close friends. Whether debating politics with Nehru, discussing... Read more

The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians

By: Xenophon

Narrated by: Daniel Duffy

Length: 1 hour 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Xenophon (431-355 BC), son of Gryllus, of the deme Erchia of Athens, was a soldier, mercenary and an admirer of Socrates. He is known for his writings on the history of his own times, the sayings of Socrates, and the life of Greece. He participated in the expedition led by Cyrus the Younger against his older brother, the emperor Artaxerxes II of... Read more

Le goût du mépris

By: Evelyne Ballanfat

Narrated by: Lionel Cruzille

Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Qui, parmi nous, n'a pas fait, à un moment quelconque de son existence, l'expérience du mépris ? À partir de situations vécues et de témoignages confiés dans la force de leur vérité, cet essai propose des tableaux de la vie courante dans lesquels le langage révèle le pouvoir blessant du mépris. Mots ou expressions pris dans la banalité du... Read more

Le neveu de Rameau

By: Denis Diderot

Narrated by: Denis d'Inès & Jean Debucourt

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Sur le point d'assister à un récital d'opéra, un philosophe rencontre le neveu du compositeur Rameau. Leur discussion est l'occasion d'aborder de nombreux sujets tels que l'art, l'éducation, la vertu, la morale ou la musique. Entre le philosophe moraliste et le neveu cynique semble de prime abord exister un fossé, qui, au fur et à mesure du... Read more

Platon, sa vie son oeuvre

By: Platon

Narrated by: Juliette Lancrenon

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Ce livre audio vous permettra de vous initier à la vie et à l'oeuvre de Platon, l'un des plus grands philosophes. Fils d'une famille de l'aristocratie athénienne, Platon semblait être destiné à occuper des responsabilités politiques de tout premier ordre. Mais sa rencontre avec Socrate bouleverse ces plans. A la mort du maître, il se consacre,... Read more

Aristote, sa vie son oeuvre

By: Aristote

Narrated by: Juliette Lancrenon

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Après la mort prématurée de son père médecin, Aristote intègre l'académie de Platon. A la mort du philosophe, il apprend les subtilités de l'art politique aux côtés du tyran Hermias d'Atarnée. En 343, l'élève Aristote, appelé par Philippe roi de macédoine, devient précepteur et responsable de l'éducation du jeune Alexandre le Grand. A son retour... Read more

Socrate, sa vie son oeuvre

By: Socrate

Narrated by: Juliette Lancrenon

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Socrate est un philosophe de la Grèce antique (-470 à -399), considéré comme l'un des inventeurs de la philosophie morale et politique. Il n'a cependant laissé aucune œuvre écrite ; sa philosophie s'est transmise par l'intermédiaire de témoignages indirects (en particulier par les écrits de ses disciples Platon et Xénophon). Voici l'histoire de... Read more

Durkheim : Cours de philosophie

By: Emile Durkheim

Narrated by: Juliette Lancrenon

Length: 1 hour 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Philosopher, c'est essayer de penser par soi-même, librement. Autant dire que c'est une nécessité pour chacun de nous. Nous philosophons tous, la plupart du temps sans le savoir. Au delà du formatage des idées, des a priori et des luttes partisanes ou idéologiques, Emile Durkheim nous donne un véritable cours de philo, simple et accessible, pour... Read more

Discours sur le bonheur

By: Emilie du Chatelet

Narrated by: Fabienne Prost

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Cette comédie philosophique qui tente de répondre à la question fondamentale " Comment être heureux sur cette terre ? " s'articule en deux parties. Alors que la première aborde les thèmes philosophiques, la seconde est consacrée à la passion amoureuse. " Les gens heureux ne cherchent rien. " Quittée par Voltaire, après dix ans de vie commune... Read more

Les Dieux antiques

By: Stéphane Mallarmé

Narrated by: Stella Garnier

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

« Les dieux antiques » écrit en 1880 est consacré aux dieux et aux héros grecs. Mallarmé décrit les origines et l'histoire de ces personnages. Découvrez ou redécouvrez ces personnages mythiques sous la plume brillante de Mallarmé : Persée, Europe, Thésée, Oedipe, Scylla, Narcisse... Replongez-vous dans la mythologie grecque et romaine !- Read more

Les Héros antiques

By: Stéphane Mallarmé

Narrated by: Stella Garnier

Length: 2 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

« Les dieux antiques » écrit en 1880 est consacré aux dieux et aux héros grecs. Mallarmé décrit les origines et l'histoire de ces personnages. Découvrez ou redécouvrez ces personnages mythiques sous la plume brillante de Mallarmé : Persée, Europe, Thésée, Oedipe, Scylla, Narcisse... Replongez-vous dans la mythologie grecque et romaine !- Read more