Philosophy audiobooks

The Finite and Infinite Games

By: James Carse

Narrated by: James Carse

Length: 1 hour 33 minutes

Abridged: No

“There are at least two kinds of games,” states James Carse as he begins this extraordinary book. “One could be called finite; the other infinite.”

Carse explores these questions with stunning elegance, teasing out of his distinctions a universe of observation and insight, noting where and why and how we play, finitely and infinitely. He surveys... Read more

We Kill Because We Can

By: Laurie Calhoun

Narrated by: Laurie Calhoun

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

"Last resort has become first resort. Courage has become cowardice. Black ops have become standard operating procedure. An intelligence agency is now a killing machine. Self defense has become naked aggression. Guilt beyond a reasonable doubt has become possible future potential for guilt. Voices of dissent have been irrevocably silenced.... Read more

ماذا يعني هذا كله

By: توماس نيجل

Narrated by: عمار الحاج يحيى

Length: 2 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

إذا كنت من محبي علم الفلسفة وتسعى لمعرفة الكثير من المعلومات عنه فهذا الكتاب سيكون رفيق دربك حيث يتربع على غلافه عنوانٌ فرعي هو "مقدمة قصيرة جدًا إلى الفلسفة" لكنّك ستتفاجىء بأنَّ هذه المقدمة القصيرة جدًا تُضاهي جميع الكتب التي تتحدّث عن الفلسفة بأسلوبها البسيط والعميق في الوقت ذاته. هذا الكتاب هو مقدمةٌ مباشرة لتسعة مشاكل فلسفية شائعة يشرح كلَّ... Read more

Meditations/Discourse on the Method

By: René Descartes

Narrated by: Mark Meadows

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Plagued with doubt and uncertainty in sensory knowledge, Descartes is struck with the idea that everything he knows is false. He considers the possibility that he has been deceived by an ‘evil demon’ and is left with nothing to lean on, until he arrives at the phrase ‘cogito ergo sum’ (‘I think, therefore I am’). Clinging to this, he proceeds to... Read more

Evolución de la Consciencia

By: Nurya Reig

Narrated by: Lustra

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Es un libro acerca de la evolución de la Nueva Consciencia Colectiva, contada con horma de historia.Se sitúa en el siglo XXII, año 2.148, narrada por una adolescente, la cual descubre el diario de un antepasado de su familia del año 2.012, que cuenta cómo fue la transición de la humanidad de la era de Piscis a la era de Acuario y cómo fue el... Read more

Why We Need Religion

By: Stephen T. Asma

Narrated by: James Anderson Foster

Length: 11 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Stephen Asma argues that, like art, religion has direct access to our emotional lives in ways that science does not. Yes, science can give us emotional feelings of wonder and the sublime—we can feel the sacred depths of nature—but there are many forms of human suffering and vulnerability that are beyond the reach of help from science. Different... Read more

The Practicing Stoic

By: Ward Farnsworth

Narrated by: John Lescault

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The great insights of the Stoics are spread over a wide range of ancient sources. This book brings them all together for the first time. It systematically presents what the various Stoic philosophers said on every important topic, accompanied by an eloquent commentary that is clear and concise. The result is a set of philosophy lessons for... Read more

Love for Imperfect Things

By: Haemin Sunim

Narrated by: Raymond Lee

Length: 4 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Susan Cain, New York Times bestselling author of Quiet: "The world could surely use a little more love, a little more compassion, and a little more wisdom. In Love for Imperfect Things, Haemin Sunim shows us how to cultivate all three, and to find beauty in the most imperfect of things--including your very own self."

A #1 internationally... Read more

Moralia

By: Plutarch

Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies

Length: 15 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Though best known now for his collection of lively and vivid Parallel Lives from ancient Greece and Rome, Plutarch (c46 CD-120 CE) was, for centuries, more respected for his Moralia, a remarkable and wide-ranging collection of essays and speeches. No fewer than 78 in total, they range over a broad list of topics in which Plutarch observes,... 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

Seven Types of Atheism

By: John Gray

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

From the provocative author of Straw Dogs comes an incisive, surprising intervention in the political and scientific debate over religion and atheismWhen you explore older atheisms, you will find that some of your firmest convictions―secular or religious―are highly questionable. If this prospect disturbs you, what you are looking for may be... Read more

El pensamiento ecológico

By: Timothy Morton

Narrated by: Ricky Delgado

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Utilizando a Darwin y los descubrimientos contemporáneos vinculados a las ciencias biológicas, así como referencias literarias y de la cultura popular, Timothy Morton sostiene en este apasionante, lúcido y sorprendente libro que todas las formas de vida están conectadas en una vasta «malla» que penetra todas las dimensiones de la vida. El... Read more

El arte de la buena vida

By: Rolf Dobelli

Narrated by: Pepe Granados

Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Desde la Antigüedad, la gente se ha preguntado qué significa vivir una buena vida. ¿Cómo debo vivir? ¿Qué rol juega el destino? ¿O el dinero? ¿Es la felicidad un estado mental, o se trata más bien de alcanzar ciertas metas? ¿Es mejor buscar la felicidad o solo evitar la infelicidad?  Las respuestas son siempre decepcionantes. ¿Por qué? Porque el... 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... Read more

Chakras

By: Amy White

Narrated by: Robin Shrock

Length: 3 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Are you feeling stuck in a rut? Spinning your wheels in the mud, directionless, daunted by the darkness of this world, uncertain of your future? Do you want to heal yourself, to find a center and a spiritual balance? Do you just want to know what, exactly, are chakras and third eye? If any of these cases rings true, then this two-audiobook... Read more

Untimely Meditations

By: Friedrich Nietzsche

Narrated by: Michael Lunts

Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Untimely Considerations contain four essays: 'David Strauss - Writer and Confessor'; 'On the Use and Abuse of History for Life'; 'Schopenhauer as Educator'; and 'Richard Wagner at Bayreuth'.

The essays date from the early part of Nietzsche's life when his Romantic view on life and art was coloured by the powerful writings and personalities of... Read more

Mad Monk Manifesto

By: Yun Rou

Narrated by: Edward Bauer

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Change The World By Changing YourselfFind answers: Today, it’s easy to get outraged by world events, frustrated by our own personal battles, and disenfranchised from government and leadership. Born of moral indignation, informed by decades of study, and seasoned by a life of devoted self-cultivation, Monk Yun Rou’s Mad Monk Manifesto has the... Read more

Becoming Warriors for The Human Spirit

By: Margaret Wheatley

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Every living system goes through a life cycle: birth, creativity, flowering, harvesting, and then death. Wheatley points out that we are at the end of a cycle and she warns us: “It’s important that we understand where we are in the pattern of collapse and not throw up our hands in despair . . .but to understand: Now that this is happening, who... Read more

The Inner Reaches of Outer Space

By: Joseph Campbell

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

In this work, beloved mythologist Joseph Campbell explores the Space Age. He posits that the newly discovered laws of outer space are actually within us as well, and that a new mythology is implicit in that realization. But what is this new mythology? How can we recognize it? Campbell explores these questions in the concluding essay, “The Way of... Read more

Tao Te Ching

By: Lao Tzu

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The original mindfulness book, in a landmark new translation by the award-winning translator of the I Ching and The Art of War
 
The most translated book in the world after the Bible, the Tao Te Ching, or “Book of the Tao,” is a guide to cultivating a life of peace, serenity, and compassion. Through aphorisms and parable, it leads readers toward... 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 Kybalion 101

By: Matthew Barnes

Narrated by: Kara Jackman

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Master the Laws of Life with the Kybalion, simplified!Imagine finally understanding the teachings of the ancient Egyptian priestly order, and how their findings can be applied to your own existence. How much better would your life be if you actually understood the whys and hows of life? In what ways would your own existence be transformed? Dr.... Read more

Nicomachean Ethics and Eudemian Ethics

By: Aristotle

Narrated by: Andrew Cullum

Length: 14 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics and Eudemian Ethics represent, in many ways, the Western classical springboard for the systematic study and implementation of ethics, the optimum behaviour of the individual. (By contrast, Aristotle's Politics concerns the optimum blueprint for the city-state.) It is in the hands of each individual, he argues in... Read more

El peligro de la historia única

By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Narrated by: Mili Matos & Sol de la Barreda

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Escucha ahora la TED talk más popular de Chimamanda, con más de doce millones de reproducciones. «Las historias importan. Importan muchas historias. Las historias se han utilizado para desposeer y calumniar, pero también pueden usarse para facultar y humanizar. Pueden quebrar la dignidad de un pueblo, pero también pueden restaurarla.» Con su... Read more