Philosophy audiobooks

Mastering Logical Fallacies

By: Michael Withey

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 4 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Your argument is valid and you know it; yet once again you find yourself leaving a debate feeling defeated and embarrassed. The matter is only made worse when you realize that your defeat came at the hands of someone's abuse of logic—and that with the right skills you could have won the argument.



The ability to recognize logical fallacies when... Read more

Selections from Parerga and Paralipomena

By: Arthur Schopenhauer

Narrated by: Leighton Pugh

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Volume 2 of Parerga and Paralipomena has a very different character from Volume 1.

There are, in total, 31 Essays, 24 of which are presented here. The range of topics is very varied, opening with 'On Philosophy and Its Method' and including 'On Pantheism', 'On Ethics', 'On Jurisprudence', 'On Men of Learning', 'On Thinking for Oneself', 'On... Read more

Vices of the Mind

By: Quassim Cassam

Narrated by: Matthew Waterson

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Epistemic vices are character traits, attitudes, or thinking styles that prevent us from gaining, keeping, or sharing knowledge. In this book, Quassim Cassam gives an account of the nature and importance of these vices, which include closed-mindedness, intellectual arrogance, wishful thinking, and prejudice. In providing the first extensive... Read more

Selections from Parerga and Paralipomena

By: Arthur Schopenhauer

Narrated by: David Rintoul & Leighton Pugh

Length: 15 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The two sizeable volumes of Parerga and Paralipomena hold a special place in the output of Arthur Schopenhauer.

Parerga means 'supplementary to a main work', and Paralipomena suggests a further supplement, but these two books were anything but a casual addition to his major opus, The World as Will and Idea. For a start, it was the publication of... Read more

Nervous States

By: William Davies

Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell

Length: 11 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In this sweeping and provocative work, political economist William Davies draws on a four-hundred-year history of ideas to reframe our understanding of the contemporary world. He argues that global trends decades and even centuries in the making have reduced a world of logic and fact into one driven by emotions—particularly fear and anxiety.... 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

Good Life, Good Death

By: Nawang Gelek Rimpoche

Narrated by: Brian Nishii

Length: 4 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Who are we? Where did we come from? Where are we going? How do we get there? Many have asked these questions, and many have attempted to answer them. But there is another question Good Life, Good Death asks us to contemplate: How does the idea of life after death affect how we live our lives?Gelek Rimpoche tells stories of the mystical Tibet he... Read more

A Lot of People Are Saying

By: Nancy L. Rosenblum & Russell Muirhead

Narrated by: Katherine Fenton

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook narrated by Katherine Fenton reveals how the new conspiracists are undermining democracy—and explains what can be done about it Conspiracy theories are as old as politics. But conspiracists today have introduced something new—conspiracy without theory. And the new conspiracism has moved from the fringes to the heart of government... Read more

Hagakure

By: Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Narrated by: Tim Campbell

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The comprehensive and accurate edition of the Hagakure is a must-have for serious martial artists or fans of samurai and the bushido code.

The Hagakure is one of the most influential of all Japanese texts—written nearly 300 years ago by Yamamoto Tsunetomo to summarize the very essence of the Japanese Samurai bushido ("warrior") spirit. Its... Read more

The Second Mountain

By: David Brooks

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 12 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Everybody tells you to live for a cause larger than yourself, but how exactly do you do it? The author of The Road to Character explores what it takes to lead a meaningful life in a self-centered world.

“Deeply moving, frequently eloquent and extraordinarily incisive.”—The Washington Post

Every so often, you meet... Read more

Being Logical

By: D.Q. McInerny

Narrated by: Al Kessel

Length: 3 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Logic is synonymous with reason, judgment, sense, wisdom, and sanity. Being logical is the ability to create concise and reasoned arguments—arguments that build from given premises, using evidence, to a genuine conclusion. But mastering logical thinking also requires studying and understanding illogical thinking, both to sharpen one's own skills... Read more

Quelques réflexions sur les origines de l'hitlérisme

By: Simone Weil

Narrated by: Grégoire Orowitz

Length: 2 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

La montée du nazisme et les horreurs du régime véhiculé par Adolf Hitler avaient-ils des antécédents dans l'histoire ? De qui s'est-il inspiré ? Dans quelle mesure, par exemple, la Rome antique fut-elle un modèle pour le Führer ? Simone Weil soumet plusieurs pistes de réflexions qui visent à percevoir ici un ensemble de mécanismes dont elle... Read more

Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

By: Marcus Aurelius

Narrated by: Ron Welch

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Meditations is a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor from 161 to 180 AD, recording his private notes to himself and ideas on Stoic philosophy.
Marcus Aurelius wrote the 12 books of the Meditations in Greek as a source for his own guidance and self-improvement. It is unlikely that Marcus Aurelius ever intended the... Read more

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg: Aus den Sudelbüchern

By: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Narrated by: Sven Görtz

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Lichtenberg war Physiker und Mathematiker, aber der Nachwelt ist er bestens in Erinnerung geblieben durch seine "Sudelbücher", in denen er Gedanken, Satiren, aber auch Witziges aphoristisch formulierte. Read more

We Are Not Who We “Think” We Are

By: Kate Gustin, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Gustin explores how we create our personal myths. This begins when, as toddlers, we start to use language. Our thoughts do a great job of defining us as a discrete individual with a particular narrative about who we think we are but this can contribute to a negative self-concept. She emphasizes the concept of “selfing” as an on-going process... Read more

Egyptian Alphabetical Letters of Creation Cycle

By: Moustafa Gadalla

Narrated by: Susie Hennessy

Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

This book focus on the relationship between the sequence of the creation cycle and the Egyptian ABGD alphabets; the principles and principals of Creation; the cosmic manifestation of The Egyptian Alphabets ; the three Primary Phases of the Creation Cycle and their numerical values; the creation theme of each of the three primary phases, as well... Read more

Irrationality

By: Justin Smith-Ruiu

Narrated by: Jeff Harding

Length: 13 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook narrated by Jeff Harding reveals the surprising ways the pursuit of rationality leads to an explosion of irrationality It's a story we can't stop telling ourselves. Once, humans were benighted by superstition and irrationality, but then the Greeks invented reason. Later, the Enlightenment enshrined rationality as the supreme... 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

How to Think Like a Roman Emperor

By: Donald J. Robertson

Narrated by: Donald J. Robertson

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

"This book is a wonderful introduction to one of history's greatest figures: Marcus Aurelius. His life and this book are a clear guide for those facing adversity, seeking tranquility and pursuing excellence." — Ryan Holiday, bestselling author of The Obstacle is the Way and The Daily Stoic

The life-changing principles of Stoicism taught through... Read more

Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

By: Bertrand Russell

Narrated by: Qarie Marshall

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Dedicated as few men have been to the life of reason, Bertrand Russell has always been concerned with the basic questions to which religion also addresses itself—questions about man’s place in the universe and the nature of the good life, questions that involve life after death, morality, freedom, education, and sexual ethics. He brings to his... Read more

Kahlil Gibran’s Little Book of Secrets

By: Kahlil Gibran

Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly

Length: 2 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most popular and profound inspirational writers of all time explores the mysteries of life. Here is bite-sized wisdom for daily living.Kahlil Gibran’s Little Book of Secrets is a collection of Gibran’s words on life’s big questions and the mysteries of the spiritual path. It is an exploration of the riddles and conundrums that are... Read more

Starting Each Day in a Powerful Way

By: Skip Johnson

Narrated by: Skip Johnson

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Take control of the beginning of each day, and you take control of the way you view your entire day! I designed this book to inspire each of us to be happier in less than one minute.
I took my absolute most popular quotes from my 'Skip Johnson Author' Facebook page and added insights that will have you inspired, encouraged and motivated to live... Read more

The Will to Power

By: Friedrich Nietzsche

Narrated by: Michael Lunts

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Nietzsche never recovered from his mental breakdown in 1889 and therefore was unable to further any plans he had for the ‘magnum opus' he had once intended, bringing together in a coherent whole his mature philosophy.

It was left to his close friend Heinrich Köselitz and his sister Elizabeth Förster-Nietzsche to go through the remaining... Read more

Liebende - Eine poetische Fabel über die unermessliche Kraft verbundener Herzen (Ungekürzte Lesung mit Musik)

By: Jeong Ho-seung

Narrated by: Gert Heidenreich

Length: 3 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Zwei Karpfen an einem Tempelwindspiel lassen hoch oben am First ihre Glöckchen erklingen und schenken einsamen und traurigen Menschen durch ihren Klang Hoffnung. Der Legende nach sind die beiden Fische Liebende, die füreinander bestimmt sind - bis zu dem Tag, als Blauperlenauge beginnt, von einem anderen Leben zu träumen. Sein Leben ist ihm zu... Read more