Philosophy audiobooks

La hoja del olmo no es perfecta

By: Javier López Facal

Narrated by: David Morales

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

La Tierra no es perfectamente redonda, pero la circunferencia creada por los hombres sí lo es. Lo malo es que cuando intentaban medir esa circunferencia inventada con su diámetro, salía un número irracional, un número desconcertante, el número pi. Otros conceptos ideales creados también por los hombres, como la simetría, la ortodoxia, la... Read more

Die Kunst, die Eltern zu enttäuschen

By: Michael Bordt SJ

Narrated by: Michael Bordt SJ

Length: 1 hour 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Man kann es nicht allen recht machen – vor allem seinen Eltern nicht! Nur wer bereit ist, andere zu enttäuschen, wird sein eigenes Leben finden.  Manchmal müssen wir andere Menschen enttäuschen, weil ihre Vorstellungen von unserem Leben einfach nicht zu uns passen - bei aller Liebe nicht. Wie enttäuscht man Erwartungen, um selbstbestimmt leben... Read more

Determined to Believe?

By: John C. Lennox

Narrated by: Paul Gregory

Length: 13 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A serious biblical and philosophical investigation of theological determinism: the idea that everything that happens has already been decided by God, including who will and won’t be saved.This audiobook is for those who are interested in, or troubled by, questions about God's sovereignty and human freedom and responsibility. Christian apologist... Read more

Humankind

By: Timothy Morton

Narrated by: Liam Gerrard

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A radical call for solidarity between humans and nonhumans



What is it that makes humans human? As science and technology challenge the boundaries between life and nonlife, between organic and inorganic, this ancient question is more timely than ever. Acclaimed object-oriented philosopher Timothy Morton invites us to consider this philosophical... Read more

The Craftsman

By: Richard Sennett

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The Craftsman explores the relation between the hand and the head. Richard Sennett argues that working with physical things stimulates people to think.



Craftsmanship, says Sennett, names the basic human impulse to do a job well for its own sake, and good craftsmanship involves developing skills and focusing on the work rather than ourselves. The... Read more

Under the Sign of Saturn

By: Susan Sontag

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Sontag’s most important critical writings from 1972 to 1980 are collected in Under the Sign of Saturn. One of America’s leading essayists, Sontag’s writings are commentaries on the relation between moral and aesthetic ideas, discussing the works of Antonin Artaud, Leni Riefenstahl, Elias Canetti, Walter Benjamin, and others. The collection... Read more

Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine

By: Alan Lightman

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

From the acclaimed author of Einstein’s Dreams, an inspired, lyrical meditation on religion and science, with an exploration of the tension between our yearning for permanence and certainty versus modern scientific discoveries pointing to the impermanent and uncertain nature of the worldAs a physicist, Alan Lightman has always held a purely... Read more

Essentials of Buddhist Philosophy with Bee Scherer

By: Bee Scherer

Narrated by: Bee Scherer

Length: 3 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

This course introduces key concepts of Indian Buddhist thought. Over 5 lectures Bee explains the fundamental themes and problems of Buddhist Philosophy; from the early Buddhist teachings on ‘suffering’, ‘karma’ and ‘No-Self’, to the later scholasticism and the famous schools of thought around ‘emptiness’ and ‘mind-only’. Each chapter introduces... Read more

The F-Word

By: Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Buddhist teacher Namgyel points out that “everything leans.” She frames this statement with the reminder, “[W]e live in a world where ‘it all depends’ and everything is influencing everything else. We might think we know something at one moment but everything is always interrupting and influencing and so it’s always changing. Life, as we know... Read more

How to Die

By: Seneca

Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan

Length: 2 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

"It takes an entire lifetime to learn how to die," wrote the Roman Stoic philosopher Seneca (c. 4 BC–65 AD). He counseled readers to "study death always," and took his own advice, returning to the subject again and again in all his writings, yet he never treated it in a complete work. How to Die gathers in one volume, for the first time,... Read more

Radical Wholeness

By: Philip Shepherd

Narrated by: Philip Shepherd

Length: 11 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

There are qualities we all yearn to experience in our lives—peace, simplicity, grace, connection, clarity. Yet these qualities evade us because each of them arises from an experience of wholeness, and we live in a culture that enforces divisions within each of us. In Radical Wholeness, Philip Shepherd shows the countless ways in which we are... Read more

Healing Love through the Tao

By: Mantak Chia

Narrated by: Donna Postel

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

For thousands of years the sexual principles and techniques presented here were taught by Taoist masters in secret only to a small number of people (sworn to silence), in the royal courts and esoteric circles of China. This is the first book to make this ancient knowledge available to the West.



The foundation of healing love is the cultivation,... Read more

After Virtue, Third Edition

By: Alasdair MacIntyre

Narrated by: Derek Perkins

Length: 14 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

When After Virtue first appeared in 1981, it was recognized as a significant and potentially controversial critique of contemporary moral philosophy. Since that time, the book has been translated into more than fifteen foreign languages and has sold over one hundred thousand copies. Now, twenty-five years later, the University of Notre Dame... Read more

Future Predictions by an Engineer and Seer

By: Martin K. Ettington

Narrated by: Martin K. Ettington

Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

This book is about predictions of the Future from both projections of existing trends and possible major paradigm changes.On Making Predictions of the Future: It is possible to make pretty good future predictions by taking into account three things-- 1) Technological and Sociological Trends 2) Potential Paradigm changes 3) IntuitionIn this book... Read more

The Socratic Dialogues: Late Period

By: Benjamin Jowett

Narrated by: Hayward B. Morse & Laurence Kennedy

Length: 14 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The Laws is the longest of Plato's Dialogues and actually doesn't feature Socrates at all - the principal figure taking the lead is the ‘Athenian Stranger' who engages two older men in the discussion, Cleinias (from Crete) and Megillus (from Sparta).

The Dialogue is set in Crete, and the three men embark on a pilgrimage from Knossus to the cave... Read more

Skin in the Game

By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Narrated by: Joe Ochman

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A bold work from the author of The Black Swan that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion, finance and personal responsibility

In his most provocative and practical book yet, one of the foremost thinkers of our time redefines what it means to understand the world,... Read more

Yamas & Niyamas

By: Deborah Adele

Narrated by: Laura Jennings

Length: 4 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The first two limbs of the eight-fold path of yoga sutras—the basic text for classical yoga—are examined in this spiritual guide to the practice of yoga. Foundational to all yogic thought, they are considered to be the guidelines to the yoga way of living that free individuals to take ownership of their lives, direct them toward the fulfillment... Read more

Let's Move On

By: Vicente Fox

Narrated by: Thom Rivera

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Vicente Fox, the former president of Mexico, issues both a denunciation of the current state of American politics and a call to unity and resistance in the face of rising ethnocentric and anti-democratic sentiments.Vicente Fox offers his unique viewpoint as a former head of state, avid historian, and true admirer of America’s constitutional... Read more

The Common Good

By: Robert B. Reich

Narrated by: Robert B. Reich

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Robert B. Reich makes a powerful case for the expansion of America’s moral imagination. Rooting his argument in common sense and everyday reality, he demonstrates that a common good constitutes the very essence of any society or nation. Societies, he says, undergo virtuous cycles that reinforce the common good as well as vicious cycles that... Read more

The Arrows of Zen

By: Ernest Cadorin

Narrated by: Ernest Cadorin

Length: 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Think Zen is soft music and scented candles? This absolutely fantastic book turns up the lights and illuminates some of the most profound aspects of the ancient philosophy. Drawing on decades of experience in Zen and the martial arts, Ernest Cadorin explains the principles and practices of Zen through compelling stories and brilliant... Read more

High-Risers

By: Ben Austen

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 13 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Joining the ranks of Evicted, The Warmth of Other Sons, and classic works of literary non-fiction by Alex Kotlowitz and J. Anthony Lukas, High-Risers braids personal narratives, city politics, and national history to tell the timely and epic story of Chicago’s Cabrini-Green, America’s most iconic public housing project.Built in the 1940s atop an... Read more

Midlife

By: Kieran Setiya

Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne

Length: 4 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Philosophical wisdom and practical advice for overcoming the problems of middle age.



How can you reconcile yourself with the lives you will never lead, with possibilities foreclosed, and with nostalgia for lost youth? How can you accept the failings of the past, the sense of futility in the tasks that consume the present, and the prospect of... Read more

Maharishi & Me

By: Susan Shumsky

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 13 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Susan Shumsky is a successful author in the New Age/Spirituality field, writing books on meditation, intuition, prayer, auras, chakras, and the like. But in the 1970s, she was one of only a handful of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s personal attendants and administrators, in India, Switzerland, and elsewhere. Following the teachings of Maharishi... Read more

On Using the Scientific Method for the Paranormal

By: Martin K. Ettington

Narrated by: Martin K. Ettington

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: No

“On Using the Scientific Method to Study the Paranormal” is an analysis of how the un-measureable can be measured. The basis of Science is the ability to test a Hypothesis. This can only be done by having instruments which can measure the phenomena in question. If measurements can’t be made then Science can’t be conducted. After discussing some... Read more