Philosophy audiobooks

The Tender Beauty Of Aging

By: Alice Matzkin & Richard Matzkin

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Alice and Richard Matzkin are artists whose work truly is an expression of their lives. Most recently they’ve been applying their gifts to express the beauty—yes, the beauty—of aging, and they do it with the tenderness they’ve learned in their twenty-seven years of loving each other. Read more

The Meditations

By: Marcus Aurelius

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 4 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

"Live each day as if it were your last."



Written in Greek by the only Roman emperor who was also a philosopher, without any intention of publication, Marcus Aurelius's Meditations offers a remarkable series of challenging spiritual reflections and exercises developed as the emperor struggled to understand himself and make sense of the universe.... Read more

Die Wirklichkeit des Abstrakten - Abridged

By: Godehard Brüntrup

Narrated by: Godehard Brüntrup

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Mit dem Wort Philosophie verbindet man gewöhnlich den Versuch, ein umfassendes Weltbild zu entwerfen und zu begründen. Die Metaphysik ist das Herzstück dieser theoretischen Unternehmung. Über den Bereich des naturwissenschaftlich Überprüfbaren hinaus versucht die Metaphysik letzte Grundfragen vor dem kritischen Auge der Vernunft zu prüfen: Gibt... Read more

Die Wirklichkeit der Substanz - Abridged

By: Godehard Brüntrup

Narrated by: Godehard Brüntrup

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Mit dem Wort Philosophie verbindet man gewöhnlich den Versuch, ein umfassendes Weltbild zu entwerfen und zu begründen. Die Metaphysik ist das Herzstück dieser theoretischen Unternehmung. Über den Bereich des naturwissenschaftlich Überprüfbaren hinaus versucht die Metaphysik letzte Grundfragen vor dem kritischen Auge der Vernunft zu prüfen: Gibt... Read more

Die Wirklichkeit der Person - Abridged

By: Godehard Brüntrup

Narrated by: Godehard Brüntrup

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Mit dem Wort Philosophie verbindet man gewöhnlich den Versuch, ein umfassendes Weltbild zu entwerfen und zu begründen. Die Metaphysik ist das Herzstück dieser theoretischen Unternehmung. Über den Bereich des naturwissenschaftlich Überprüfbaren hinaus versucht die Metaphysik letzte Grundfragen vor dem kritischen Auge der Vernunft zu prüfen: Gibt... Read more

Die Wirklichkeit des freien Willens - Abridged

By: Godehard Brüntrup

Narrated by: Godehard Brüntrup

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Mit dem Wort Philosophie verbindet man gewöhnlich den Versuch, ein umfassendes Weltbild zu entwerfen und zu begründen. Die Metaphysik ist das Herzstück dieser theoretischen Unternehmung. Über den Bereich des naturwissenschaftlich Überprüfbaren hinaus versucht die Metaphysik letzte Grundfragen vor dem kritischen Auge der Vernunft zu prüfen: Gibt... Read more

Die Wirklichkeit des spekulativen Denkens - Abridged

By: Godehard Brüntrup

Narrated by: Godehard Brüntrup

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Mit dem Wort Philosophie verbindet man gewöhnlich den Versuch, ein umfassendes Weltbild zu entwerfen und zu begründen. Die Metaphysik ist das Herzstück dieser theoretischen Unternehmung. Über den Bereich des naturwissenschaftlich Überprüfbaren hinaus versucht die Metaphysik letzte Grundfragen vor dem kritischen Auge der Vernunft zu prüfen: Gibt... Read more

Die Wirklichkeit des Geistes - Abridged

By: Godehard Brüntrup

Narrated by: Godehard Brüntrup

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Mit dem Wort Philosophie verbindet man gewöhnlich den Versuch, ein umfassendes Weltbild zu entwerfen und zu begründen. Die Metaphysik ist das Herzstück dieser theoretischen Unternehmung. Über den Bereich des naturwissenschaftlich Überprüfbaren hinaus versucht die Metaphysik letzte Grundfragen vor dem kritischen Auge der Vernunft zu prüfen: Gibt... Read more

Telling the Truth

By: D. A. Carson

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 16 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

"A pre-modern baseball umpire would have said something like this: 'There's balls, and there's strikes, and I call 'em as they are.' The modernist would have said, 'There's balls, and there's strikes, and I call 'em as I see 'em.' And the postmodernist umpire would say, 'They ain't nothing until I call 'em.'" With that humorous quote, Ravi... Read more

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

By: David Hume

Narrated by: Albert A. Anderson

Length: 4 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

David Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion had not yet been published when he died in 1776. Even though the manuscript was mostly written during the 1750s, it did not appear until 1779. The subject itself was too delicate and controversial, and Hume’s dialectical examination of religious knowledge was especially provocative. What should... Read more

Plato's Gorgias

By: Plato

Narrated by: Albert A. Anderson

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Gorgias of Leontini, a famous teacher of rhetoric, has come to Athens to recruit students, promising to teach them how to become leaders in politics and business. A group has gathered at Callicles' house to hear Gorgias demonstrate the power of his art. This dialogue blends comic and serious discussion of the best life, providing a penetrating... Read more

Plato's Greater Hippias

By: Plato

Narrated by: Albert A. Anderson

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Hippias of Elis travels throughout the Greek world practicing and teaching the art of making beautiful speeches. On a rare visit to Athens, he meets Socrates who questions him about the nature of his art. Socrates is especially curious about how Hippias would define beauty. They agree that “beauty makes all beautiful things beautiful,” but when... Read more

Plato's Republic

By: Plato

Narrated by: Albert A. Anderson

Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The Republic poses questions that endure: What is justice? What form of community fosters the best possible life for human beings? What is the nature and destiny of the soul? What form of education provides the best leaders for a good republic? What are the various forms of poetry and the other arts, and which ones should be fostered and which... Read more

Plato's Phaedrus

By: Plato

Narrated by: Albert A. Anderson

Length: 2 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Plato’s dialogues frequently treat several topics and show their connection to each other. The Phaedrus is a model of that skill because of its seamless progression from examples of speeches about the nature of love to mythical visions of human nature and destiny to the essence of beauty and, finally, to a penetrating discussion of speaking and... Read more

Plato's Ion

By: Plato

Narrated by: Albert A. Anderson

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Socrates questions Ion, an actor who just won a major prize, about his ability to interpret the epic poetry of Homer. How does an actor, a poet, or any other artist create? Is it by knowing? Is it by inspiration? As the dialogue proceeds, the nature of human creativity emerges as a mysterious process and an unsolved puzzle. Read more

Plato's Meno

By: Plato

Narrated by: Albert A. Anderson

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A dialogue between Socrates and Meno probes the subject of ethics. Can goodness be taught? If it can, then we should be able to find teachers capable of instructing others about what is good and bad, right and wrong, or just and unjust. Socrates and Meno are unable to identify teachers of ethics, and we are left wondering how such knowledge... Read more

Reality and the Arts

By: Albert A. Anderson

Narrated by: Albert A. Anderson

Length: 4 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Art is the creative manifestation of essences. In order to understand the relation between art and reality, we need a philosophical guide. The best way to comprehend how the creative act of imagining enables the mind to seek reality is to employ the kind of dialectical thinking that Plato used in his dialogues. Beginning with the shadows on the... Read more

Reflections on the Mind of Plato

By: Joseph N. Uemura

Narrated by: Joseph N. Uemura

Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

“Plato was not a Platonist! I would like to show . . . that anyone who reads the dialogues of Plato without bias or an ax to grind will find a humorous, witty, pleasant friend; and not a desiccated scholarly mandarin. Plato was an open-minded, tolerant, reasonable individual, not a tight-lipped, pietistic, puritan. In a word, Plato was an... Read more

The Poetics

By: Aristotle

Narrated by: Albert A. Anderson

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Aristotle's Poetics is best known for its definition and analysis of tragedy and comedy, but it also applies to truth and beauty as they are manifested in the other arts. In our age, when the natural and social sciences have dominated the quest for truth, it is helpful to consider why Aristotle claimed: "poetry is more philosophical and more... Read more

Dao De Jing

By: Laozi

Narrated by: Albert A. Anderson

Length: 1 hour 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The Dao De Jing exists on the border between poetry and philosophy, embracing both mythos and logos. Its poetic form can stand alone, but it is enriched when its timeless ideas are analyzed and explained through careful scholarship. For example: “He who knows others is knowledgeable. He who knows himself is wise.” These words resemble Socrates’... Read more

Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health (Japanese Edition)

By: L. Ron Hubbard

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 23 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

No.1インターナショナル・ベストセラー
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「（ダイアネティックスは）人間の... Read more

Scientology: A New Slant on Life

By: L. Ron Hubbard

Narrated by: Harry Chase

Length: 3 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Dianetics, with over 22 million copies sold
"The truth of the matter is that all the happiness you will ever find lies in you."—L. Ron Hubbard
In this book you'll find the answers to put you in charge of your life. Based on L. Ron Hubbard's discoveries culled from decades of research, it's filled... Read more

Foundations of Ethics

By: Immanuel Kant

Narrated by: Ray Childs

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

These works articulate the most fundamental principles of Kant’s ethical and political world-view. “What is Enlightenment?” (1784) and Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785) were written in the period between the American Revolution and the French Revolution. Taken together they challenge all free people to think about the... Read more

Plato's Symposium

By: Plato

Narrated by: Albert A. Anderson

Length: 2 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The dramatic nature of Plato’s dialogues is delightfully evident in the Symposium. The marriage between character and thought bursts forth as the guests gather at Agathon’s house to celebrate the success of his first tragedy. With wit and insight, they each present their ideas about love—from Erixymachus’s scientific naturalism to Aristophanes’... Read more