Philosophy audiobooks

Kritisch denken

By: Gerard de Vogel

Narrated by: Roy van den Groot

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In een tijdperk waarin informatie overvloedig is en meningen gemakkelijk worden verspreid, is kritisch denken de gids die ons helpt de waarheid te onderscheiden van ruis. Het stelt ons in staat om dieper te graven, vragen te stellen en complexe problemen op te lossen.Dit boek heeft als doel een duidelijk begrip te verschaffen van kritisch denken... Read more

The Stoic Man's Guide

By: William T. Harrison

Narrated by: Seth B Toledo

Length: 3 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Wrestling with life's greatest demands? Find answers within yourself with a little Stoic guidance.Marcus Aurelius penned many of his incredible thoughts working off of Ancient Stoic teachings. It's unreal how you can still grasp his concepts and apply them to your daily problems!Modern problems require modern Stoicism. Often, men find themselves... Read more

Total Reset

By: Greg Campbell, Lulu & The Goolarabooloo Family

Narrated by: Mark Coles Smith

Length: 36 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1991 the author met Lulu, a widely respected Aboriginal elder and powerful maban (shaman) in the remote Kimberley region of Australia. He asked Greg to work with him and the Goolarabooloo people to write one book. Its purpose: enable people to view reality through the lens of original knowledge and apply it for the well-being of one another... Read more

Emoções que Curam

By: Wanderley Oliveira

Narrated by: Christiana Vidal

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Nesse último livro de espiritismo da Série Harmonia Interior, Ermance Dufaux estuda as instintivas emoções primárias, que cumprem funções nobres na arquitetura da vida mental e são fios condutores da nossa evolução espiritual. Aceitar emoções é uma forma terapêutica de viver porque, se você as acolhe, faz uso de duas medicações essenciais... Read more

The Prince

By: Niccolò Machiavelli

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 3 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an auto-narrated audiobook version of this book.

The most famous book on politics ever written, The Prince remains as lively and shocking today as when it was written almost five hundred years ago. Initially denounced as a collection of sinister maxims and a recommendation of tyranny, it has more recently been defended as the first... Read more

Police Deception and Dishonesty

By: Luke William Hunt

Narrated by: Christopher Grove

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

In Police Deception and Dishonesty, Luke William Hunt—a philosophy professor and former FBI special agent—argues that many of our assumptions about policing and security are unjustified. Through a rich discussion of literature and case studies, he shows that there are compelling reasons to think that the police's widespread use of proactive... Read more

Coragem Sob Fogo

By: James Bond Stockdale & Aldo Dinucci

Narrated by: Edu Oliveira & Fernando Lauletta

Length: 3 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Coragem Sob Fogo é uma tradução de Courage Under Fire, do escritor James Bond Stockdale. O livro registra a experiência de Stockdale como prisioneiro de guerra em Hanói, Vietnã do Norte, durante muitos anos, enquanto servia à marinha americana como piloto de caças.A riqueza do seu registro está no fato de que ele relaciona toda sua difícil... Read more

New World Order

By: H.G. Wells

Narrated by: Graham Dunlop

Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The New World Order – H.G. Wells. One of the central texts in explaining the psychopathic drive of elitists to enslave the world in a unified empire. H. G. Wells was an insider with a British group tasked with the revival of their once great empire—this time in conjunction with Venetian Black Nobility Khazar bankers (not mentioned this... Read more

By What Standard?

By: R. J. Rushdoony

Narrated by: Nathan Conkey

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

An introduction into the problems of Christian philosophy. It focuses on the philosophical system of Dr. Cornelius Van Til, which in turn is founded upon the presuppositions of an infallible revelation in the Bible and the necessity of Christian theology for all philosophy.Basic to this study is the belief that presuppositions of human thought... Read more

The Tao Te Ching 201

By: Matthew Barnes

Narrated by: Kara Jackman

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Learn to think like the great Chinese philosophers of old and swim with the flow of life, no longer against it. The ancient Chinese sages were reported to have lived extremely long lives yet to have retained their youth, vigor, and a childlike humor well into their latter years. How? By discovering and aligning themselves with the underlying... Read more

On the Shortness of Life, On the Happy Life, and Other Essays

By: Seneca the Younger

Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

As former tutor and adviser to Emperor Nero, philosopher and statesman Seneca was acutely aware of how short life can be - his own life was cut short when the emperor ordered him to commit suicide (for alleged involvement in a conspiracy). And Seneca proved true to his words - his lifelong avowal to Stoicism enabled him to conduct himself with... Read more

The Enchiridion & Discourses

By: Epictetus

Narrated by: Hayward B. Morse

Length: 13 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The Enchiridion is the famous manual of ethical advice given in the second century by the Stoic philosopher Epictetus.

Born to a Greek slave, Epictetus grew up in the environment of the Roman Empire and, having been released from bonds of slavery, became a Stoic in the tradition of its originators, Zeno (third Century BCE) and Seneca (first... Read more

The Wisdom of Life, Counsels and Maxims

By: Arthur Schopenhauer

Narrated by: David Rintoul

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

'The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom.'

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) was one of the most influential philosophers of the 19th century because his humanistic, atheistic, if pessimistic views chimed with a new secularism that was emerging from a Western society dominated by religion. Despite his rather forbidding image (and a few... Read more

Utilitarianism/On Liberty

By: Johnn Stuart Mill

Narrated by: Derek Le Page

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

John Stuart Mill (1808-1873) was a torchbearer for liberal thought in the 19th century, including liberty of the individual and freedom of speech, and he championed women's suffrage in Parliament. A remarkable man - he learned Greek aged three and at eight had read Herodotus, Xenophon and Plato - he campaigned all his life for a just society.... Read more

The World as Will And Idea

By: Arthur Schopenhauer

Narrated by: Leighton Pugh

Length: 20 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Schopenhauer was just 30 when his magnum opus, Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung, a work of considerable learning and innovation of thought, first appeared in 1818.

Much to his chagrin and puzzlement (so convinced was he of its merits), it didn't have an immediate effect on European philosophy, views and culture. It was only decades later that... Read more

Metaphysics

By: Aristotle

Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart

Length: 14 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Aristotle's Metaphysics was the first major study of the subject of metaphysics - in other words, an inquiry into 'first philosophy', or 'wisdom'. It differs from Physics, which is concerned with the natural world: things which are subject to the laws of nature, things that move and change, are measurable. In Metaphysics, the study falls on... Read more

The World as Will and Idea

By: Arthur Schopenhauer

Narrated by: Leighton Pugh

Length: 17 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The original edition of The World as Will and Idea appeared in 1818, but in 1844 Schopenhauer published an expanded version. It contained the 'Criticism of the Kantian Philosophy', a lengthy document; and Supplements to the First Book (The Doctrine of the Idea of Perception) and the Second Book (The Doctrine of Perception or Knowledge of the... Read more

The Socratic Dialogues: Early Period

By: Benjamin Jowett & Plato

Narrated by: David Rintoul & Laurence Kennedy

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Here are the Socratic Dialogues presented as Plato designed them to be - living discussions between friends and protagonists, with the personality of Socrates himself coming alive as he deals with a host of subjects, from justice and inspiration to courage, poetry and the gods.

Plato's Socratic Dialogues provide a bedrock for classical Western... Read more

The Socratic Dialogues: Early Period

By: Benjamin Jowett & Plato

Narrated by: David Rintoul

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Here, in this second collection of Socratic Dialogues from Plato's Early Period, read by David Rintoul as Socrates with a full cast, are contrasting six works. Often, as with Gorgias, which opens the recording, Socrates combats the popular subjects of sophistry and rhetoric, in direct conversation with Gorgias (a leading sophist teacher), and... Read more

The Socratic Dialogues: Middle Period

By: Benjamin Jowett & Plato

Narrated by: David Rintoul

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Here are three important but very different Dialogues from the Middle Period. Symposium, the most well-known in this collection, is concerned with the theme of love. In the house of Agathon, a group of friends - each very different in personality and background - meet to consider and discuss various kinds of love. Each one, Phaedrus, Pausanias,... Read more

The Enneads

By: Plotinus

Narrated by: Peter Wickham

Length: 21 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Plotinus (204/5 -270CE), born in Lycopolis, Egypt, when it was part of the Roman Empire, was a major figure in the philosophical school later called Neoplatonism. Neoplatonists viewed reality as deriving from a single force or figure expressed as 'the One'. Two further concepts from Plotinus, 'the Intellect' and 'the Soul', are also principal... Read more

The Socratic Dialogues: Middle Period

By: Benjamin Jowett & Plato

Narrated by: David Rintoul & Laurence Kennedy

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The remarkable range of Plato's Dialogues is vividly demonstrated by these three works.

It opens with Phaedrus, a highly personal discussion between Socrates (David Rintoul) and the young, love-struck Phaedrus (Gunnar Cauthery). They go for a walk outside the walls of Athens and, under a plane tree by the banks of the Ilissus, talk about love -... Read more

Of Consolation

By: Seneca the Younger

Narrated by: Mike Rogers

Length: 3 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

These three ‘Consolations’, written by Seneca to his mother and two friends, have been described as ‘the crowning achievement in the canon of ‘consolation letters’. But sentimental they are not, for they emerge from the writer’s deep-seated commitment to Stoicism, where individuals are exhorted to inhabit qualities of virtue, positivity,... Read more

Four Dissertations

By: David Hume

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

David Hume (1711-1776) remains one of the most stimulating and entertaining writers in the English essay tradition. Though primarily known for long-form writings, he was adept at taking one subject and looking at it in a more concise but accessible manner.
Hume devoted his life to study – across a wide range of his personal interests, reflecting... Read more