Philosophy audiobooks

The Story of Philosophy

By: Will Durant

Narrated by: Graham Dunlop

Length: 21 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The Story of Philosophy is a captivating intellectual journey that explores the evolution of human thought and the enduring legacy of great thinkers throughout history. Written by the renowned author Will Durant, this monumental work provides readers with a comprehensive overview of the world's philosophical traditions, from ancient Greece to... Read more

Fábulas, cuentas y valores

By: René J. Trossero

Narrated by: Natalia Ivana Escobar

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

En medio de esta realidad dolorosa, yo no me rindo y no me resigno, y me propongo ayudarte a ti para que tú ayudes a otros, a vivir el amor. Lo harás como padre, como madre, como hermano, como amigo, o como educador… Lo importante es que vivas el amor y ayudes a otros a vivirlo.

Este audiolibro contiene el desarrollo de los siguientes... Read more

Radical Therapy

By: Lily de Silva

Narrated by: Jim Swift

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an audiobook of Bodhi Leaves No.123 by Lily de Silva, "Radical Therapy: Buddhist Precepts in the Modern World" narrated by Jim Swift. The print edition can be found in the Pariyatti Edition of Collected Bodhi Leaves Vol. V.
Excerpts:"The Five Precepts are designed to discipline and purify the three avenues of human action-body, speech,... Read more

The Ultimate Spiritual Growth Master Course

By: Nick Hall, Wayne Dyer, Marianne Williamson, Gre...

Narrated by: Neale Donald Walsch, Luanne Oaks, Ron Roth, Sam...

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Delve into the profound mysteries of existence. Designed for those who are yearning to understand the purpose of their lives and seeking a path to true fulfillment, this book is an enlightening exploration of the intricate world of spirituality and the divine.Distinct from religious doctrine, spirituality is often a personal journey towards... Read more

The Emerson Essential Master Course

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Narrated by: Joe Nuckols

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Ralph Waldo Emerson has been famous as a major leader in the New Thought movement,
establishing transcendentalism as a new paradigm. He wrote a massive amount of life-
changing material in his life. His lectures and essays became the hallmark of the
transcendentalist ideas and principles echoed today by many contemporary best sellers.
Concepts... 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

Heedfulness

By: Bhikkhu Khantipālo

Narrated by: Shelina Hetherington

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an audiobook of Bodhi Leaves No. 98 by Bhikkhu Khantipālo, 'Heedfulness' found in the Pariyatti Edition of Collected Bodhi Leaves Vol. IV, narrated by Shelina Hetherington.
Excerpt:...The quality of heedfulness has been praised many times by the Exalted Buddha, just as the opposite, heedlessness, has been condemned. In this Dhamma, there... Read more

The Buddha’s Practical Teaching

By: John D. Ireland

Narrated by: Jim Swift

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

"To summarise what has been indicated above, our aim should be complete deliverance from suffering, or stated positively, the unconditioned and perfect happiness of Nibbāna; to be differentiated from other forms of happiness which are imperfect because ‘conditioned’ by impermanence, and thus liable to revert to suffering when circumstances or... Read more

Letter from Māra

By: Ajahn Puṇṇadhammo

Narrated by: Jonathan Nelson

Length: 1 hour 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In this satirical, allegorical essay, Māra - the Buddhist personification of evil and death - writes a letter to his armies with instructions on how to keep his subjects trapped in his realm of birth and death.
Māra is portrayed as a modern figure who views his dominions through a computer monitor. His armies personify the mental defilements that... Read more

A Lifetime Doing Nothing

By: Ian McCrorie

Narrated by: Ian McCrorie

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

This book is a compilation of teachings told in short stories about the author's attempts to undo the done. He offers this little book as a more ardent, and hopefully lucid, attempt to explain the paramount importance of doing nothing as a way to undo oneself.
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"In my experience, all our problems do indeed stem from... Read more

The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

By: Patanjali

Narrated by: Ron Welch

Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Embark on a profound journey of self-discovery and spiritual enlightenment with "The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali" by Patanjali, now available as a transformative audiobook. In this ancient text, listeners will explore the foundational teachings of yoga and delve into the principles and practices that have guided practitioners for centuries.As the... Read more

Man A Machine

By: Julien Offray de La Mettrie

Narrated by: Edward Hermann (Synthesised) & Synthesised Voice

Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

This recording has been digitally produced by DeepZen Limited, using a synthesized version of an audiobook narrator’s voice under license. DeepZen uses Emotive Speech Technology to create digital narrations that offer a similar listening experience to human narration. 
"Man a Machine" by Julien Offray de La Mettrie is a provocative treatise from... Read more

The Middle Way and other essays

By: M. O'C. Walshe

Narrated by: Joseph Jacob

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an audiobook of Bodhi Leaves No.99 by M. O’C. Walshe, "The Middle Way and other essays" found in the Pariyatti Edition of Collected Bodhi Leaves Vol. IV.
Excerpt:"It is always a good idea to seek the middle way, or the golden mean, between extremes whether in politics, in one’s personal view and behaviour, or in fact in any walk of life.... Read more

Coming to Terms With One’s Shadow

By: Ruth Walshe

Narrated by: Joseph Jacob

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: No

"Though, to some extent, the psychological and the Buddhist way of looking at the shadow is similar, the Buddhist way of seeing, rather than investigating, is far deeper and more penetrating. For if you wash your dirty linen yourself instead of sending it to the laundry, you yourself discover the stains. But unlike with the washing, there is no... Read more

Buddhist Aids To Daily Conduct

By: Edward Greenly

Narrated by: Christa Michel

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an audiobook of Bodhi Leaves No. 6 by Edward Greenly, 'Buddhist Aids To Daily Conduct' found in the Pariyatti Edition of Collected Bodhi Leaves Vol. I, narrated by Christa Michel.
Excerpt:...The first thing to be observed is that Buddhism does not make what we may perhaps call a “frontal attack” upon evil. There is in it no “commandment,”... Read more

The Mastery of Personal Transformation

By: Mark Victor Hansen, Wayne Dyer, Richard Sutphen...

Narrated by: Jack Canfield, Gregg Braden, Sonia Choquette, M...

Length: 15 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Is the key to a powerful future lying dormant within the corridors of your mind?Unearth the age-old principles of healing and manifestation, now corroborated by the modern science of the 21st century, in this enthralling master course.Embark on an exhilarating voyage into the heart of personal transformation with this exhaustive course. Through... Read more

A Good Dose of Dhamma

By: Tan Acharn Kor Khao-suan-luang

Narrated by: Takae Ishizuka

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an audiobook of Bodhi Leaves No.136 by Tan Acharn Kor Khao-suan-luang (Upāsikā Kee Ñāṇayon), 'A Good Dose of Dhamma: For Meditators WhenThey Are Ill' found in the Pariyatti Edition of Collected Bodhi Leaves Vol. V. Translated from the Thai by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
Excerpt from Chapter 1"Normally, illness is something we all have, but the... Read more

Of Gods and Men

By: Francis Story

Narrated by: Christa Michel

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

We are all familiar with the fact that man in former daysreadily believed in the existence of an unseen world, a worldof ghosts, demons, nature-spirits which were worshipped as gods,and a host of other supernatural beings. This world lay all about himand in some respects was more real to him than the physical world.It was his belief in it, and... Read more

Attitudes to Life

By: Ruth Walshe

Narrated by: Christa Michel

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

"As long as we have the delusion of an ego, we will have all sorts of attitudes, convictions and views, which are all thought-created. In fact, instead of having a direct experience of life in the present, we live in a world of thoughts of either the past or the future. We live by our memories, speculations and fears.
We miss so much of life by... Read more

A Journey into Buddhism

By: Elizabeth J. A. Harris

Narrated by: Ethan Christy

Length: 34 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an audiobook of Bodhi Leaves No. 134 by Elizabeth J. A. Harris, A Journey into Buddhism narrated by Ethan Christy.
Excerpt:"The themes of the talks are rooted in my journey, as a Christian, into Buddhism. In the mid-1980s I felt the need to ’let go’ of my own religious conditioning to enter the world of another faith. It grew from a... Read more

Immanuel Kant zum Reinhören

By: Immanuel Kant

Narrated by: Stefan Schäfer

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Die Werke von Immanuel Kant sind bekannt für ihre Tiefe und Komplexität, was sie zu einer Herausforderung für viele Leser macht. In diesem Hörbuch werden Sie Zeuge davon, wie Kant die philosophische Landschaft für immer verändert hat. Seine Ideen sind nicht nur relevant für seine Zeit, sondern auch für unsere moderne Welt, in der Fragen nach... Read more

Right Story, Wrong Story

By: Tyson Yunkaporta

Narrated by: Tyson Yunkaporta

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Continuing the work of the award-winning Sand Talk, Tyson Yunkaporta casts an Indigenous lens on contemporary society, challenging us to face conflict and embrace conversation to find our way onto the right track. With Right Story, Wrong Story, Apalech Clan member Tyson Yunkaporta, from far north Queensland, tackles the divisions that prevent us... Read more

The Sovereignty of Good

By: Iris Murdoch

Narrated by: Daisy-May Parsons

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Iris Murdoch once observed: 'philosophy is often a matter of finding occasions on which to say the obvious'. What was obvious to Murdoch, and to all those who read her work, is that Good transcends everything - even God. Throughout her distinguished and prolific writing career, she explored questions of Good and Bad, myth and morality. The... Read more

The Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece

By: Three Initiates

Narrated by: Jeff Moon

Length: 3 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Embark on a profound journey of ancient wisdom with "The Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece" audiobook. Authored by the enigmatic Three Initiates, this timeless work unveils the secrets of Hermeticism, guiding listeners through the profound teachings of ancient Egypt and Greece."The Kybalion" delves into the... Read more