Philosophy audiobooks

La Gaya Ciencia

By: Friedrich Nietzsche

Narrated by: Artur Mas

Length: 12 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

La gaya ciencia, también traducido como El gay saber o El alegre saber, es una de las obras capitales del filósofo Friedrich Nietzsche, escrita en 1882. Con ella se cierra el periodo "negativo" (de destrucción de la metafísica cristiana) y se abre el periodo afirmativo (de construcción de nuevos valores), en el que se destaca la obra Así habló... Read more

Utopia

By: Thomas More

Narrated by: Edith Harson

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Utopia is a work of fiction and political philosophy by Thomas More. The book is a frame narrative primarily describing a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. Utopia is an ideal society with a perfect socio-politico-legal system. Read more

The Art of Literature

By: Arthur Schopenhauer

Narrated by: Mark Meadows

Length: 3 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Arthur Schopenhauer’s The Art of Literature is a lively, illuminating and brutally honest collection of essays on literary style and values, writers and critics, and the nature of genius. The volume is comprised of eight chapters: On Authorship, On Style, On the Study of Latin, On Men of Learning, On Thinking for Oneself, On Criticism, On... Read more

Aristopia: A Romance-History of the New World

By: Castello Newton Holford

Narrated by: Edith Harson

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

Aristopia: A Romance-History of the New World is a utopian novel by Castello Holford, considered the first novel-length alternate history in English. In Aristopia we follow Ralph Morton, an early settler in Virginia, who discovers a golden reef. He uses his wealth to build a planned society, based on the Utopia of Sir Thomas More, with... Read more

The Bhagavad Gita

By: anonymous

Narrated by: Sagar Arya

Length: 2 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Sanskrit for ‘Song of the Lord’, the Bhagavad Gita is a 700-verse Hindu epic that constitutes part of the faith’s vast cornerstone work, the Mahabharata. The book provides timeless truths and indispensible advice for believers trying to overcome internal tensions, doubt and indecision. The teachings are conveyed in the form of a dialogue between... Read more

A Meaning to Life

By: Michael Ruse

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Does human life have any meaning? Does the question even make sense today? For centuries, the question of the meaning or purpose of human life was assumed by scholars and theologians to have a religious answer: life has meaning because humans were made in the image of a good god. In the 19th century, however, Charles Darwin's theory of evolution... Read more

El arte de la guerra

By: Sunzi

Narrated by: Carme Ambrós & Miguel Ángel Jenner

Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Esta traducción del chino realizada y comentada por Ana Aranda Vasserot nos permite comprender la verdadera intención y significado de este gran clásico de la estrategia china. Es una edición especial en la que se analiza el texto de una manera accesible, comparando distintas interpretaciones de términos o pasajes complejos y recurriendo a... Read more

Instant Calmness

By: The INSTANT-Series

Narrated by: The INSTANT-Series

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

How to Calm Down and Stay Calm in Any Tough Situation Instantly!
Pressure, stress, tension, uneasiness, worries, etc. - you name it. Ugh, can you just feel the burdens of work piling up, the responsibilities at home mounting up, and all the other countless things you have to do?
Welcome to your 21st century modern lifestyle - where everything is... Read more

Instant Genius

By: The INSTANT-Series

Narrated by: The INSTANT-Series

Length: 47 minutes

Abridged: No

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How to Think Like a Genius to Be One Instantly!
When you hear the word "genius" - what immediately pops into your mind? Perhaps, people like Albert... Read more

Instant Mind Power

By: The INSTANT-Series

Narrated by: The INSTANT-Series

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

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How to Train and Sharpen Your Mental Abilities Instantly!
System Updating In Progress...
Your "mind" is a superhuman computer. It houses all your cognitive... Read more

Ancient Egyptian Universal Writing Modes

By: Moustafa Gadalla

Narrated by: Susie Hennessy

Length: 11 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

This book will show how the Egyptians had various modes of writings for various purposes , and how the Egyptian modes were falsely designated as "separate languages" belonging to others and how this one original language came to be called Greek, Hebrew, Arabic and other 'languages' throughout the world—through deterioration of sound values via... Read more

History of Physics

By: Introbooks Team

Narrated by: Andrea Giordani

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The discipline of science that shades the most light on the structure of the world and also the most advanced one is undoubtedly none other than Physics. Hence, it is much needed to have some basic ideas of not only what the up-to-date development of physics is but also how we came to think in that way and how the whole of modern physics is... Read more

The Communist Manifesto

By: Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels

Narrated by: Austin Vanfleet

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The Communist Manifesto is an 1848 political pamphlet by the German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. It presents an analytical approach to the class struggle and the conflicts of capitalism and the capitalist mode of production, rather than a prediction of communism's potential future forms.
The Communist Manifesto summarizes Marx and... Read more

The Organs of Sense

By: Adam Ehrlich Sachs

Narrated by: Andrew Wincott

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1666, an astronomer makes a prediction shared by no one else in the world: at the stroke of noon on June 30th of that year, a solar eclipse will cast all of Europe into total darkness for four seconds. This astronomer is rumored to be using the largest telescope ever built, but he is also known to be blind—both of his eyes were plucked out... Read more

Albert Einstein's Theories

By: Introbooks Team

Narrated by: Andrea Giordani

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Exact insight into the relativity theory, from both philosophical perspective and general scientific perspective, for all those who are not conversant in theoretical physics and the mathematical apparatus, can be handy enough to understand the nuances associated with the subject. Einstein ideas were inspired basically by the brilliant... Read more

Platon: Die Apologie des Sokrates

By: Platon

Narrated by: Sven Görtz

Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Sokrates ist wegen Unfrömmigkeit angeklagt. Welches Strafmaß soll ergehen? In seiner Verteidiungsrede, die zu einer der Grundlagen der Philosophie geworden ist, zeigt Sokrates: Die Wahrheit ist das höchste Gut – und Eigeninteressen müssen dahinter zurückstehen. Ein packendes Hörerlebnis. Read more

Von der Freundschaft

By: Michel de Montaigne

Narrated by: Burghart Klaußner & Stephan Schad

Length: 2 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

"Nichts ist so voll und ganz das Werk unsres freien Willens wie Zuneigung und Freundschaft." Der französische Philosoph Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) geht in diesen Essays den Tugenden und Schwächen der Menschen nach. Dem Geist der Renaissance verpflichtet, zeichnet er ein Bild des Menschen in all seiner Widersprüchlichkeit und plädiert für... Read more

Los 53 Sutras de Buda

By: Siddharta Gautama Buda

Narrated by: Artur Mas

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Los sutras son mayoritariamente discursos dados por Buda o alguno de sus discípulos más próximos. Designa en el budismo los textos escritos en los que se exponen enseñanzas y preceptos relativos a las diferentes vías de conocimiento para alcanzar la "iluminación" o realización espiritual completa del ser humano. Transcurridos varios siglos... Read more

Über das Mitleid

By: Arthur Schopenhauer

Narrated by: Jens Wawrczeck

Length: 1 hour 41 minutes

Abridged: No

"Das Mitleid hebt die Mauer zwischen du und ich auf." Mitleid ist nach Schopenhauer das Fundament der Menschenliebe, der Gerechtigkeit und der Ethik. Es schließt die Liebe zu den Tieren ein und ist die natürliche, uneigennützige und allein wirklich moralische Triebfeder ethischen Handelns. Es ist damit die Basis einer jeden Tugend.... Read more

Über die Liebe

By: Hildegard von Bingen

Narrated by: Grischa Huber & Stephan Schad

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

"Aus der wahren Liebe, die ganz göttlich ist, kommt auch das Gute, das wertvoller ist als alles, was man ersehnt." Obwohl Hildegard von Bingen kein eigenständiges Werk "Über die Liebe" verfasst hat, sind "caritas" und "amor" wichtige Begriffe im Denken der Seherin und Mystikerin. Dieses Hörbuch versammelt die wichtigsten Gedanken Hildegards... Read more

Lektionen der Stille - Abridged

By: Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer

Narrated by: Maja Maranow

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

"Wenn du jenseits von Liebe und Hass bist, ist alles so klar wie das helle Tageslicht." Der Zen-Weg, in China zwischen 500 und 1000 n. Chr. entwickelt, ist nicht nur einfach Meditation und Versenkung, sondern vor allem Praxis. Zen umfasst die ganze Existenz. Diese Auswahl aus der reichhaltigen Literatur bietet klassische Texte von bekannten... Read more

Philosophie des Glücks - Abridged

By: Epikur

Narrated by: Peter Jordan & Stephan Schad

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Niemand ist zu jung oder zu alt, um etwas für die Gesundheit seiner Seele zu tun." Der griechische Philosoph Epikur stellte das Glück des einzelnen ins Zentrum seiner Lehre. Er wies seinen Schülerinnen und Schülern den Weg zur höchsten Lust und zur Vermeidung des Schmerzes. Dem modernen Menschen erscheint Epikurs Philosophie nicht zuletzt... Read more

Handorakel und Kunst der Weltklugheit - Abridged

By: Balthasar Gracián

Narrated by: Axel Milberg & Stephan Schad

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Herz und Kopf - die beiden Pole der Sonne unserer Fähigkeiten. Eines ohne das andere - halbes Glück." Das "Handorakel" des spanischen Jesuitenpaters Balthasar Gracián, eine Sammlung von Weisheiten, Merksprüchen und praktischen Verhaltensregeln, ist einer der berühmtesten Texte des 17. Jahrhunderts. Das Werk, das zum Nachdenken über guten... Read more

Die Reden des Buddha - Abridged

By: Siddhartha Gautama

Narrated by: Andreas Pietschmann

Length: 1 hour 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Was zum Frieden und zur Erleuchtung dient, hat der Buddha die Seinen gelehrt: die Wahrheit vom Leiden, die Wahrheit von der Entstehung des Leidens, von der Aufhebung des Leidens, vom Wege zur Aufhebung des Leidens." Der Heilsweg des Buddha ist ein Weg zur Weisheit und zur Erlösung des Einzelnen. Am Anfang der Lehre stand die Einsicht, dass... Read more