Philosophy audiobooks

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 Souls of Black Folk

By: W. E.B. DuBois

Narrated by: Rodney Gardiner

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A cornerstone of African-American literary history, The Souls of Black Folk is a classic work by W. E. B. Du Bois. Originally published in 1903, it contains many essays on race and equality, but is also a piece of seminal history as laying the groundwork for the field of sociology. Some of the essays in the novel were even previously published... Read more

The Art of War

By: Sun Tzu

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Dating back to the 5th century B.C.,The Art of War is an ancient Chinese text on military strategy whose teachings have become very influential and popular in the west. Though authorship is attributed to Sun Tzu (Master Sun), many scholars believe the bulk of the text was written by his descendant Sun Bin, who lived some hundred years later. Its... Read more

Talking God

By: Gary Gutting

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Through interviews with twelve distinguished philosophers-including atheists, agnostics, and believers-Talking God works toward a philosophical understanding and evaluation of religion. Along the way, Gary Gutting and his interviewees challenge many common assumptions about religious beliefs.

As tensions simmer, and often explode, between the... Read more

Thomas Aquinas: Understand the Universal Teacher's Greatest Ideas

By: Eleonore Stump

Narrated by: Eleonore Stump

Length: 4 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

This course will have a profound impact on your faith and thinking. Thomas Aquinas, OP (1225-1274), is one of world history''s most influential thinkers. His works indelibly shaped Western thought and Christian belief, and his brilliant ideas continue to resonate in universities and churches everywhere. But his complex thought can often seem... Read more

Your Mythic Journey

By: Sam Keen & Anne Valley-Fox

Narrated by: Sam Keen & Anne Valley-Fox

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Sam Keen, best selling author of Fire in the Belly and Anne Valley-Fox combine their talents to help today's men and women rediscover the mythic dimension in their own daily lives.A Better Listen audio production. Read more

The Consolation of Philosophy

By: Manlius Boethius

Narrated by: David Rintoul

Length: 4 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The Consolation of Philosophy is one of the key works in the rich tradition of Western philosophy, partly because of the circumstances in which it was written.

Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (c480-c524) was of aristocratic Roman birth and became consul and then master of offices at Ravenna, one of the highest posts under the Ostrogothic Roman... 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

The Dream of Enlightenment

By: Anthony Gottlieb

Narrated by: Anthony Gottlieb

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of the classic The Dream of Reason vividly explains the rise of modern thought from Descartes to Rousseau. Read more

The Eternal and Infinite Nature of the Self

By: Rupert Spira

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

This teacher of non-dualism sheds light on the essential teachings of what is known as “the direct path.” Almost everybody believes that whatever it is we are seeing is something that is outside ourselves. This leads to a most vexing question for science: How is consciousness derived from the brain? No neurologist or brain surgeon has ever found... Read more

The Ethics of Invention

By: Sheila Jasanoff

Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Technology rules us as much as laws do. It shapes the legal, social, and ethical environments in which we act. Every time we cross a street, drive a car, or go to the doctor, we submit to the silent power of technology. Yet, much of the time, the influence of technology on our lives goes unchallenged by citizens and our elected... Read more

Uncomfortable Ideas

By: Bo Bennett, PhD

Narrated by: Bo Bennett, PhD

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Many of our ideas about the world are based more on feelings than facts, sensibilities than science, and rage than reality.

We gravitate toward ideas that make us feel comfortable in areas such as religion, politics, philosophy, social justice, love and sex, humanity, and morality. We avoid ideas that make us feel uncomfortable. This avoidance... Read more

American Philosophy

By: John Kaag

Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The epic wisdom contained in a lost library helps the author turn his life around.In American Philosophy, John Kaag—a disillusioned philosopher at sea in his marriage and career—stumbles upon a treasure trove of rare books on an old estate in the hinterlands of New Hampshire that once belonged to the Harvard philosopher William Ernest Hocking.... Read more

Come and Take It

By: Cody Wilson

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A startling philosophical manifesto for the twenty-first century on freedom of information, Come and Take It is the controversial yet thrilling story of the first ever-3D printable gun, developed by self-described crypto-anarchist and rogue thinker Cody Wilson.

In Defense Distributed, Cody Wilson’s employees worked against all odds to defend... Read more

Law And Morality

By: John Montgomery

Narrated by: John Montgomery

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Dr. Montgomery's inaugural lecture on the occasion of his appointment as Professor of Law and Humanities at the University of Luton, England. Do law and morals have an essential interrelationship? If so, from where can moral values justifiably be derived? Read more

The Ramayana

By: Linda Egenes & Kumuda Reddy

Narrated by: Deepti Gupta

Length: 16 hours

Abridged: No

A delightfully straightforward and lyrical retelling of the ancient Indian epic of loyalty, betrayal, redemption, and insight into the true nature of life -- one of history's most sacred ethical works, rendered with completeness and sterling accuracy for the modern reader or listener.
Here is one of the world's most hallowed works of sacred... Read more

How to Win an Argument

By: Marcus Tullius Cicero

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 3 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

All of us are faced countless times with the challenge of persuading others, whether we're trying to win a trivial argument with a friend or convince our coworkers about an important decision. Instead of relying on untrained instinct—and often failing as a result—we'd win more arguments if we learned the timeless art of verbal persuasion,... Read more

Healing Oneself, Healing the World - Abridged

By: Thich Nhat Hanh

Narrated by: Thich Nhat Hanh

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Dharma talks only from the 6-day retreat at Magnolia Grove Monastery in 2013 with the theme Healing Ourselves, Healing the World by Thich Nhat Hanh.A Better Listen audio production. Read more

Madness and Civilization

By: Michel Foucault

Narrated by: Dave Gillies

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In this classic account of madness, Michel Foucault shows once and for all why he is one of the most distinguished European philosophers since the end of World War II. Madness and Civilization, Foucault's first book and his finest accomplishment, will change the way in which you think about society. Evoking shock, pity, and fascination, it might... Read more

Juniper

By: Thomas French & Kelley French

Narrated by: Kelley French & Thomas French

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A micro-preemie fights for survival in this extraordinary and gorgeously told memoir by her parents, both award-winning journalists.

Juniper French was born four months early, at 23 weeks' gestation. She weighed 1 pound, 4 ounces, and her twiggy body was the length of a Barbie doll. Her head was smaller than a tennis ball, her skin was nearly... Read more

Ethics in the Real World

By: Peter Singer

Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Peter Singer is often described as the world's most influential philosopher. He is also one of its most controversial. The author of important books such as Animal Liberation and Practical Ethics, he helped launch the animal rights and effective altruism movements and contributed to the development of bioethics. Now, in Ethics in the Real World,... Read more

Te Regalo lo que se te Antoje (abreviado) - Abridged

By: Conny Mendez

Narrated by: Isabel Vara

Length: 1 hour 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

FonoLibro se enorgullece en presentar el audiolibro en espanol del best seller Te Regalo Lo Que Se Te Antoje de la afamada Conny Mendez. Para comprender las ensenanzas de la Nueva Era y obtener plenamente los beneficios que ella encierra, se recomienda leer Te Regalo Lo Que Se Te Antoje, donde se explica la forma correcta de obrar en la vida,... Read more

The Puzzle of Christianity

By: Peter Vardy

Narrated by: Dugald Bruce-Lockhart

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

An excellent overview of Christianity, suitable for students (and teachers!) embarking on the new GCSE and ‘A’-Level Religious Studies specifications. Written in the same clear and engaging style as the bestselling Puzzle of Ethics and Puzzle of God, this book covers key content common to all the new specifications –... Read more

The Dream of Enlightenment

By: Anthony Gottlieb

Narrated by: Derek Perkins

Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of the classic The Dream of Reason vividly explains the rise of modern thought.Western philosophy is now two-and-a-half millennia old, but much of it came in just two staccato bursts, each lasting only about 150 years. In his landmark survey of Western philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance, The Dream of Reason, Anthony... Read more