Philosophy audiobooks

The Death of Expertise

By: Tom Nichols

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

People are now exposed to more information than ever before, provided both by technology and by increasing access to every level of education. These societal gains, however, have also helped fuel a surge in narcissistic and misguided intellectual egalitarianism that has crippled informed debates on any number of issues. Today, everyone knows... Read more

Self-Discovery Through Photography

By: David Ulrich

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Thanks to cell phones, photography is now the great democratic medium, one of the most important means of communication of the 21st century. This is a new order, in which images are made, seen, and shared immediately and globally without curation or censoring by editors or governments. We can participate in shaping the reality of this order. Read more

Rhetoric and Poetics

By: Aristotle

Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart

Length: 10 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Poetics and Rhetoric are the two major works by Aristotle which, after more than 2,000 years, remain key behavioural handbooks for anyone interested in story, performance, presentation and indeed psychology.

The continuing influence of Poetics, for example, is readily discernible even among the scriptwriters of Hollywood! Poetics is the shorter... Read more

How to Be a Stoic

By: Massimo Pigliucci

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A philosopher asks how ancient Stoicism can help us flourish today Whenever we worry about what to eat, how to love, or simply how to be happy, we are worrying about how to lead a good life. No goal is more elusive. In How to Be a Stoic, philosopher Massimo Pigliucci offers Stoicism, the ancient philosophy that inspired the great emperor Marcus... Read more

The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership

By: James C. Hunter

Narrated by: Tony Pasqualini

Length: 4 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

With a new introduction on using the principles of The Servant in your life and career, this book redefines what it means to be a leader.

In this absorbing tale, you watch the timeless principles of servant leadership unfold through the story of John Daily, a businessman whose outwardly successful life is spiraling out of control. He is... Read more

The Gift of Anger

By: Arun Gandhi

Narrated by: Arun Gandhi

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover ten vital and extraordinary life lessons from one of the most important and influential philosophers and peace activists of the twentieth century—Mahatma Gandhi—in this poignant and timely exploration of the true path from anger to peace, as recounted by Gandhi’s grandson, Arun Gandhi. In the current troubled climate, in our country and... Read more

The Book of Not Knowing

By: Peter Ralston

Narrated by: Keith O'Brien

Length: 19 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Eckhart Tolle—a guide to mastering self-awareness through direct experience rather than old presumptions or harmful thought patterns

Through decades of martial arts and meditation practice, Peter Ralston discovered a curious and paradoxical fact: that true awareness arises from a state of not-knowing. Even the most sincere... Read more

Guide to Chip Heath's & et al Made to Stick by Instaread

By: Instaread

Narrated by: Sam Scholl

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Chip Heath’s & et al Made to Stick and NOT the original book.
Preview:
In Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die (2007), educators and brothers Chip Heath and Dan Heath offer a guide for sharing ideas that stick with listeners. As a framework for their advice, they offer the acronym SUCCES,... Read more

The Genius of Being

By: Peter Ralston

Narrated by: Toby Sheets

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Peter Ralston’s exceptionally lucid trilogy on the nature of human consciousness culminates here. In The Genius of Being Peter Ralston presents an audiobook of deep contemplations on the unseen elements that create our world. The first volume, The Book of Not Knowing, garnered much praise as a comprehensive exploration of the depths of self and... Read more

Brain Training with the Buddha

By: Eric Harrison

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The essential guide to training your brain for mindfulness—modern, science-based, and with no Buddhism required.

Publisher’s note: Brain Training with the Buddha was previously published in hardcover as The Foundations of Mindfulness.

Lifelong meditation teacher Eric Harrison intimately understands the benefits of mindfulness, from improved focus... Read more

Learning to Live with Uncertainty

By: Estelle Frankel

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Frankel recommends that we not make a habit of focusing on the obstacles on our life paths. Rather, we should consider the open spaces before us as our guides. She further suggests that we designate some time each month to take a “wordfast” and points out that “Silence is a precious commodity and if we don’t create space for ourselves we’re... Read more

Esto es agua

By: David Foster Wallace

Narrated by: Carlos Manuel Vesga

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Escucha ahora este discurso que vio la luz en 2005 y ha sido debatido ampliamente tras la muerte del autor. Transido con su humor único, su intelecto preciso y su filosofía práctica, Esto es agua muestra los retos de la vida diaria, un legado conciso de uno de los grandes pensadores de nuestro tiempo. Había una vez dos peces jóvenes que iban... Read more

This Is an Uprising

By: Mark Engler & Paul Engler

Narrated by: Graham Halstead

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Strategic nonviolent action has reasserted itself as a potent force in shaping public debate and forcing political change. Whether it is an explosive surge of protest calling for racial justice in the United States or a demand for democratic reform in Hong Kong or Mexico, when mass movements erupt onto our television screens, the media portrays... Read more

60 MINUTES TO MASTER BUDDHISM

By: Michael Chaskalson

Narrated by: Edward Killingback

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A Buddhist life is lived with peace, joy and contentment: each day can be a step along the path to true enlightenment. To live by these values every day takes patience, skill and knowledge, but it is hugely rewarding. This book can show you how to begin to do so – in just 20 minutes. Principles of Buddhism covers the history... Read more

Behaving Badly

By: Eden Collinsworth

Narrated by: Joy Nash

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

What is the relevance of morality today? Eden Collinsworth enlists the famous, the infamous, and the heretofore unheard-of to unravel how we make moral choices in an increasingly complex—and ethically flexible—age.

To call these unsettling times is an understatement: our political leaders are less and less respectable; in the realm of business,... Read more

Notes on Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince by Instaread

By: Instaread

Narrated by: Dwight Equitz

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince and NOT the original book.
Preview:
The Prince (1532) is a guide to success in statecraft for heads of state, whom author Niccolò Machiavelli refers to as “princes” throughout the text. Machiavelli argues that princes should cultivate the appearance of virtue, but that they... Read more

Chosen by God

By: R.C. Sproul

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

With nearly 200,000 copies sold in its 25 years, Chosen by God by Dr. R. C. Sproul is a contemporary classic on predestination, a doctrine that isn't just for Calvinists, says Sproul. It is a doctrine for all biblical Christians. In this updated and expanded edition of Chosen by God, Sproul shows that the doctrine of predestination doesn't... Read more

The Family Gene

By: Joselin Linder

Narrated by: Khristine Hvam

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

When Joselin Linder was in her twenties, her legs started to swell. She thought little of it, until her health problems started to compound in ways that baffled her doctors. Diagnosed with extreme liver blockage and dangerous levels of lymph fluid, Joselin turned to the most similar case she could think of—her father’s.Joselin compared the... Read more

The Five Invitations

By: Frank Ostaseski

Narrated by: Frank Ostaseski

Length: 12 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The cofounder of the Zen Hospice Project and pioneer behind the compassionate care movement shares an inspiring exploration of the lessons dying has to offer about living a fulfilling life.

Death is not waiting for us at the end of a long road. Death is always with us, in the marrow of every passing moment. She is the secret teacher hiding in... Read more

The Shipwrecked Mind

By: Mark Lilla

Narrated by: Michael Kramer

Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

We don't understand the reactionary mind. As a result, argues Mark Lilla in this timely book, the ideas and passions that shape today's political dramas are unintelligible to us.



The reactionary is anything but a conservative. He is as radical and modern a figure as the revolutionary, someone shipwrecked in the rapidly changing present, and... 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 Little Things

By: Andy Andrews

Narrated by: Andy Andrews

Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Wall Street Journal BestsellerHave you ever wondered why we spend so much time and energy thinking about the big challenges in our lives when all the evidence proves it’s actually the little things that change everything?  That’s right…  Absolutely everything.Little Things embodies Andy’s own approach to life and work, detailing for the first... Read more

Hygge – Die Kunst, das Leben zu geniessen

By: Katja Schütz

Narrated by: Carmen Molinar

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Je stressiger unser Alltag ist, desto stärker ist unser Wunsch nach Rückzug und Erholung. Die dänische Glücksphilosophie "Hygge" beschreibt einen neuen Weg für mehr Wohlfühlen im 21. Jahrhundert. Die Dänen zählen zu den glücklichsten Menschen weltweit. Hygge ist nicht individualistisch, sondern widmet sich der Sehnsucht nach Zusammengehörigkeit,... Read more

The Lost Love

By: Michael Lanfield

Narrated by: Michael Lanfield

Length: 3 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

At the core of our being, lies the heart. The heart is what contains human emotion, including love and compassion. Though humanity wants world peace, we can’t seem to live peacefully amongst one another. Religious institutions, schools and educational systems, military and governments have done little to nothing to end the violence. Love is the... Read more