Philosophy audiobooks

The Kybalion

By: Three Initiates

Narrated by: Thomas Blackwood

Length: 3 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Step into the world of Hermetic philosophy with 'The Kybalion', an audiobook that explores the timeless wisdom of the ancient Hermetic masters. Written in the early 20th century, 'The Kybalion' remains one of the most influential works on the Hermetic philosophy, offering profound insights into the nature of reality, the workings of the... Read more

The Stoic Mindset

By: Mark Tuitert

Narrated by: Mark Tuitert

Length: 2 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

A ten-step guide to reaching your peak potential through the wisdom of Stoic philosophy by entrepreneur and Olympic champion speed skater Mark Tuitert.

For twenty years, Mark Tuitert has used the principles of Stoic philosophy to become a gold-medal winning Olympic champion athlete, successful entrepreneur, as... Read more

Dune and Philosophy

By: Kevin S. Decker

Narrated by: Ariana Delawari & Nas Mehdi

Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

"He who controls the spice controls the universe." Frank Herbert's Dune saga is the epic story of Paul, son of Duke Leto Atreides, and heir to the massive fortune promised by the desert planet Arrakis and its vast reservoirs of a drug called "spice." To control the spice, Paul and his mother Jessica, a devotee of the pseudo-religious Bene... Read more

The Entanglement

By: Alva Noe

Narrated by: Christopher Douyard

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Entanglement, philosopher Alva Noë explores the inseparability of life, art, and philosophy, arguing that we have greatly underestimated what this entangled reality means for understanding human nature.



Life supplies art with its raw materials, but art, Noë argues, remakes life by giving us resources to live differently. Our lives are... Read more

Living Together

By: David Schmidtz

Narrated by: David de Vries

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Is moral philosophy more foundational than political theory? It is often assumed to be. David Schmidtz argues that the reverse is true: the question of how to live in a community is more fundamental than questions about how to live. This book questions whether we are getting to the foundations of human morality when we ignore contingent features... Read more

Finding Happiness in a Complex World

By: Charles P. Nemeth, JD, PhD, LLM

Narrated by: Lyle Blaker

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Why, since happiness is so universally sought after, are so many people so miserable? The answer can be found by unpacking the wisdom of two of history's intellectual giants who set out to answer the question that has confounded man from time immemorial: What makes us happy?



Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas existed sixteen centuries apart, yet each... Read more

The French Art of Living Well

By: Cathy Yandell

Narrated by: Kim Niemi

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

Cathy Yandell's The French Art of Living Well is a delightful look at French culture, from literature to cuisine to humor and more, showing how the French have captured that magic elixir known as joie de vivre.



What is joie de vivre, and why is it a fundamentally French concept?



In search of those ineffable qualities that make up the joy of... Read more

The Two Moralities

By: Ronnie Janoff-Bulman

Narrated by: Kim Niemi

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The left and right will always have strong policy disagreements, but constructive debate and negotiation are not possible when each side demonizes the other. In this book, social psychologist Ronnie Janoff-Bulman provides a new framework for understanding why and how we disagree.



Janoff-Bulman asks listeners to consider the challenging... Read more

Indiana Jones and Philosophy

By: William Irwin

Narrated by: Chloe Cannon & Jonathan Yen

Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

If adventure has a name, it must be Indiana Jones! He's both a mild-mannered archaeology professor and an intrepid adventurer traversing the globe in search of lost artifacts. Whether seeking the Ark of the Covenant in Egypt, the Sankara Stones in India, the Holy Grail in Turkey, or a mysterious crystal skull in Peru, Indy's adventures never... Read more

Star Wars and Philosophy Strikes Back

By: Jason T. Eberl & Kevin S. Decker

Narrated by: Al Kessel

Length: 11 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

"This is the Way." In Star Wars and Philosophy Strikes Back, the Way wends through entirely new adventures in the Star Wars galaxy far, far away: not only the films of the Skywalker saga, but also Rebels, The Bad Batch, Rogue One, Solo, and The Mandalorian. Like the creators of these films and television series, the authors in this book harness... Read more

Choosing Well

By: Chrisoula Andreou

Narrated by: Lisa S. Ware

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Self-defeating behavior and the damage it can cause constitute a rich and intriguing area of philosophical inquiry. Choosing Well explores the challenges associated with effective choice over time from both theoretical and practical perspectives. Andreou focuses on the challenges raised by cyclic preferences and incomplete preferences, both of... Read more

How Reason Can Lead to God

By: Joshua Rasmussen

Narrated by: Frank Block

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Do you seek the truth?



Do you value reason, science, and independent thinking? Are you skeptical of beliefs that people maintain merely "on faith," yet you remain interested in the big questions of life? Do you hope there could be a greater purpose to the universe, if only that were realistic?



If so, then philosopher Joshua Rasmussen can encourage... Read more

Natality

By: Jennifer Banks

Narrated by: Jen Jayden

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

An exhilarating exploration of natality, a much-needed counterpoint to mortality, drawing on the insights of brilliant writers and thinkers.



Birth is one of the most fraught and polarized issues of our time, at the center of debates on abortion, gender, work, and medicine. But birth is not solely an issue; it is a fundamental part of the human... Read more

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness

By: Peter Moore

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 17 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The most famous phrase in American history once looked quite different. "The preservation of life, & liberty, & the pursuit of happiness" was how Thomas Jefferson put it in the first draft of the Declaration, before the first ampersand was scratched out, along with "the preservation of." The precise contours of these three rights have... Read more

Ethics in Action for Sustainable Development

By: Jeffrey D. Sachs, Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, Owen...

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 17 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The Sustainable Development Goals, adopted by the United Nations in 2015, comprise an ambitious and sweeping agenda that unites economic, social, and environmental aims. What resources do the world's religious and secular traditions offer in support of these objectives? Which principles do these traditions hold in common, and how can these... Read more

A Hidden Wisdom

By: Christina Van Dyke

Narrated by: Christina Van Dyke

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Medieval philosophy is primarily associated today with university-based disputations and the authorities cited in those disputations. In their own time, however, scholastic debates were recognized as just one part of wide-ranging philosophical and theological discussions. A Hidden Wisdom breaks new ground by drawing attention to another crucial... Read more

The Essence of Chan

By: Guo Gu

Narrated by: Daniel Henning

Length: 3 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Clear and illuminating commentary on one of Bodhidharma's most important texts—designed to help Chan practitioners apply timeless and essential advice to their practice



Legend has it that more than a thousand years ago an Indian Buddhist monk named Bodhidharma arrived in China. His approach to teaching was unlike that of any of the Buddhist... Read more

Метод Мацкевича

By: Владимир Мацкевич

Narrated by: Владимир Мацкевич

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

МЕТОД МАЦКЕВИЧА - подкаст, в котором вместе с методологом Владимиром Мацкевичем разбираемся с тем, что происходит вокруг в политике, культуре, обществе. Стараемся вникнуть в суть вещей, отбросить случайное и уловить важное.Учимся мыслить. Read more

300 Quotes from Idealistic Philosophers

By: Immanuel Kant, Plato & Arthur Schopenhauer

Narrated by: Brad Carty

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: No

'300 Quotes from Idealistic Philosophers' is an incredible collection of quotes from the world's finest Idealistic Philosophers, including German philosophers Immanuel Kant and Arthur Schopenhauer and Ancient Greek philosopher Plato. Idealistic philosophy or idealism identifies and describes metaphysical perspectives and argues that reality is... Read more

700 Quotations from Ancient Philosophy

By: Heraclitus, Seneca the Younger, Cicero, Epictet...

Narrated by: Brad Carty

Length: 2 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Plato, Aristotle, Marcus Aurelius, and Cicero are some of the famous names whose wit and wisdom are included in this audiobook, '700 Quotations from Ancient Philosophy'.This group of Greek philosophers, Roman Statesmen and Emperors is responsible for some of the world's best-known quotes, including "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able... Read more

500 Quotations from the Great Philosophers of the 16th Century

By: Miguel de Cervantès, Nicolas Machiavel, Michel ...

Narrated by: Brad Carty

Length: 1 hour 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Known as the High Renaissance period, the philosophy of the 1500s leaned towards establishing the relationship between the human body and the human soul. Logic was waning as a philosophical ideal and, instead, the focus fell on human nature. '500 Quotations from the Great Philosophers of the 16th Century' cherry-picks some of the most profound... Read more

400 Quotations from the Great Philosophers of the 17th Century

By: Blaise Pascal, Baruch Spinoza, Voltaire & Monte...

Narrated by: Brad Carty

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

'400 Quotations from the Great Philosophers of the 17th Century' features the unparalleled wit and wisdom of some of the 17th century's greatest philosophers, including Voltaire and Montesquieu. These great minds are responsible for some of the most famous quotes in the world, and their influence continues to this day. Guaranteed to educate... Read more

500 Quotations from the Great Philosophers of the 18th Century

By: Denis Diderot, Adam Smith, Georg Christoph Lich...

Narrated by: Brad Carty

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Known as the 'Age of Enlightenment,' the 1700s was a time that provoked significant leaps in philosophical thought. Most importantly, the thinkers of the time espoused the virtues of happiness, the evidence provided by the senses, and the distance between organised religion and the state. '500 Quotations from the Great Philosophers of the 18th... Read more

500 Quotations from the Great Philosophers of the 19th Century

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Søren Kierkegaard, Friedri...

Narrated by: Brad Carty

Length: 2 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

While we tend to think of the great thinkers as hailing from Ancient Greece, the 19th century has had more than its fair share of sharp minds. '500 Quotations from the Great Philosophers of the 19th Century' is a collection of reflections, insights, and observations from some of the best brains of that era. A superb book for dipping in and out... Read more