Philosophy audiobooks

Fay Wray and Robert Riskin

By: Victoria Riskin

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 12 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Biography)A Hollywood love story, a Hollywood memoir, a dual biography of two of Hollywood’s most famous figures, whose golden lives were lived at the center of Hollywood’s golden age, written by their daughter, an acclaimed writer and producer.

Fay Wray was most famous as the woman—the blonde in a... Read more

The Original Buddhist Psychology

By: Beth Jacobs, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Margo Trueblood

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Drawing on decades of experience, a psychotherapist and Zen practitioner makes the Abhidharma—the framework of Buddhist psychology—accessible to a general audience for the first time.

The Abhidharma, one of the 3 major text collections of the original Buddhist canon, explores the critical juncture of Buddhist thought and the therapeutic aspects... Read more

The Magical Approach

By: Jane Roberts

Narrated by: Braden Wright, Donna Postel, Mel Foster & Dara ...

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The Seth books are world-renowned for comprising one of the most profound bodies of work ever written on the true nature of reality. In this brand new volume of original material, Seth invites us to look at the world through another lens—a magical one. Seth reveals the true, magical nature of our deepest levels of being, and explains how we have... Read more

The Lost Love

By: Michael Lanfield

Narrated by: Michael Lanfield

Length: 3 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

At the core of our being, lies the heart. The heart is what contains human emotion, including love and compassion. Though humanity wants world peace, we can’t seem to live peacefully amongst one another. Religious institutions, schools and educational systems, military and governments have done little to nothing to end the violence. Love is the... Read more

To Shape a New World

By: Tommie Shelby & Brandon M. Terry

Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly, Priya Ayyar, Cary Hite, Robin Mi...

Length: 16 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Martin Luther King Jr. may be America’s most revered political figure, commemorated in statues, celebrations, and street names around the world. On the fiftieth anniversary of King’s assassination, the man and his activism are as close to public consciousness as ever. But despite his stature, the significance of King’s writings and political... Read more

The Ordinary Virtues

By: Michael Ignatieff

Narrated by: Michael Ignatieff

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

What moral values do human beings hold in common? As globalization draws us together economically, are our values converging or diverging? In particular, are human rights becoming a global ethic? These were the questions that led Michael Ignatieff to embark on a three-year, eight-nation journey in search of answers. The Ordinary Virtues presents... Read more

How to Grow Old

By: Marcus Tullius Cicero

Narrated by: Roger Clark

Length: 1 hour 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Worried that old age will inevitably mean losing your libido, your health, and possibly your marbles too? Well, Cicero has some good news for you. In How to Grow Old, the great Roman orator and statesman eloquently describes how you can make the second half of life the best part of all—and why you might discover that reading and gardening are... Read more

Why Honor Matters

By: Tamler Sommers

Narrated by: Tamler Sommers

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A controversial call to put honor at the center of moralityTo the modern mind, the idea of honor is outdated, sexist, and barbaric. It evokes Hamilton and Burr and pistols at dawn, not visions of a well-organized society. But for philosopher Tamler Sommers, a sense of honor is essential to living moral lives. In Why Honor Matters, Sommers argues... Read more

One World Now

By: Peter Singer

Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

One World Now seamlessly integrates major developments of the past decade into Peter Singer's classic text on the ethics of globalization, One World. Singer, often described as the world's most influential philosopher, here addresses such essential concerns as climate change, economic globalization, foreign aid, human rights, immigration, and... Read more

The Life of the Mind

By: Hannah Arendt

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 20 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Considered by many to be Hannah Arendt's greatest work, published as she neared the end of her life, The Life of the Mind investigates thought itself, as it exists in contemplative life. In a shift from her previous writings, most of which focus on the world outside the mind, this work was planned as three volumes that would explore the... Read more

The Morning Mind

By: Dr. Robert Carter III & Kirti Salwe Carter, MBB...

Narrated by: Wayne Campbell

Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Unleash positive thinking and productive imagination, and flip negative thoughts and behaviors into a lifetime to improve every aspect of your life—each morning, one day at a time.Bad habits. Bad feelings. Bad mornings that turn into regrettable days. Banish them all with simple brain hacks that flip negative thoughts and behaviors into... Read more

Buddhism

By: Joan Duncan Oliver

Narrated by: Joan Duncan Oliver & Juanita Rockwell

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

This program includes an introduction read by the author.

A modern guide to the teachings of Buddhism.

Buddhism: An Introduction to the Buddha’s Life, Teachings, and Practices is an indispensable guide to a 2,600-year-old wisdom tradition that has transformed the lives of millions across centuries and around the world. Readers will learn how... Read more

The Art of Simple Living

By: Shunmyo Masuno

Narrated by: Louis Ozawa Changchien

Length: 2 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

"Does for mental clutter what Marie Kondo has done for household clutter." --Publishers Weekly

Relax and find happiness amid the swirl of the modern world with this internationally bestselling guide to simplifying your life by the renowned Zen Buddhist author of Don’t Worry and How to Let Things Go.

In clear, practical, easily adopted lessons--one... Read more

Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us

By: Simon Critchley

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

From the moderator of The New York Times philosophy blog "The Stone," a book that argues that if we want to understand ourselves we have to go back to theater, to the stage of our lives

Tragedy presents a world of conflict and troubling emotion, a world where private and public lives collide and collapse. A world where morality is ambiguous and... Read more

Suffering and Virtue

By: Michael S. Brady

Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Suffering, in one form or another, is present in all of our lives. But why do we suffer? On one reading, this is a question about the causes of physical and emotional suffering. On another, it is a question about whether suffering has a point or purpose or value. In this groundbreaking book, Michael Brady argues that suffering is vital for the... Read more

The Character Gap

By: Christian B. Miller

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

We like to think of ourselves, our friends, and our families as decent people. We may not be saints, but we are still honest, relatively kind, and mostly trustworthy. Miller argues here that we are badly mistaken in thinking this. Hundreds of recent studies in psychology tell a different story: that we all have serious character flaws that... Read more

Anarchy, State, and Utopia

By: Robert Nozick

Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell

Length: 14 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In this classic work, award-winning philosopher Robert Nozick offers a “complex, sophisticated, and ingenious” (The Economist) defense of libertarianism

First published in response to John Rawls' A Theory of Justice, Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia has since become one of the defining texts in classic libertarian thought. Challenging... Read more

The Layman's Guide To Quantum Reality

By: JD Lovil

Narrated by: Cathi Colas

Length: 3 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Have you always wanted to understand Quantum Theory, but was afraid of the math?Relax. I have written this book so that you can understand the theory without all the hard to understand equations and science speak.Once you understand quantum mechanics, you can use that knowledge to take control of your life.

This book has three sections.It will... Read more

The Dangers of Christian Practice

By: Lauren F. Winner

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Challenging the central place that "practices" have recently held in Christian theology, Lauren Winner explores the damages these practices have inflicted over the centuries.



Sometimes, beloved and treasured Christian practices go horrifyingly wrong, extending violence rather than promoting its healing. In this bracing book, Lauren Winner... Read more

Philosophy of Religion

By: Tim Bayne

Narrated by: Charles Constant

Length: 3 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

What is the philosophy of religion? How can we distinguish it from theology on the one hand and the psychology/sociology of religious belief on the other? What does it mean to describe God as 'eternal'? And should religious people want there to be good arguments for the existence of God, or is religious belief only authentic in the absence of... Read more

Viajar para Trascender (Travel as Transformation)

By: Gregory V. Diehl

Narrated by: Xavi Parellada

Length: 3 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

De vivir en una camioneta en las calles de San Diego, a cultivar chocolate con las tribus indígenas en Centroamérica, a enseñar en Oriente Medio y a hacer voluntariado en África, el autor de éxitos de ventas Gregory V. Diehl ha seguido un camino mundano y poco convencional. Dejando su casa en California cuando era adolescente, pasó a vivir y... Read more

Baumgarten and Kant on Metaphysics

By: Courtney D. Fugate & John Hymers

Narrated by: Bob Souer

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

This volume explores the metaphysics of Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714–1762) and its decisive influence on Immanuel Kant.



For over a century, scholars have recognized the significance of Baumgarten's Metaphysics, both because of its impact on Kant's intellectual development, and because of the way it fundamentally informed the work of... Read more

The Hiddenness of God

By: Michael C. Rea

Narrated by: Chris Sorensen

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The Hiddenness of God addresses the problem of divine hiddenness which concerns the ambiguity of evidence for God's existence, the elusiveness of God's comforting presence, the palpable and devastating experience of divine absence and abandonment, and more; phenomena which are hard to reconcile with the idea, central to the Jewish and Christian... Read more

A Way of Being

By: Carl R. Rogers

Narrated by: Joe Hempel

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A profound and deeply personal collection of essays by renowned psychologist Carl Rogers.



The late Carl Rogers, founder of the humanistic psychology movement and father of client-centered therapy, based his life's work on his fundamental belief in the human potential for growth. A Way of Being was written in the early 1980s, near the end of Carl... Read more