Philosophy audiobooks
Original Self
By: Thomas Moore
Narrated by: Thomas Moore
Length: 3 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
According to Thomas Moore, people today have lost the deep, direct, and vivid sense of what it means to live with passion and originality. Moore believes that beneath the many thick layers of indoctrination about who we are and who we should be lies an original self, a person who came into this world full of possibility and destined for a... Read more
View audiobookEducation of the Heart - Abridged
By: Thomas Moore
Narrated by: Thomas Moore
Length: 2 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In an era of information technology we tend to neglect education in the emotions, the imagination, and civility. Thomas Moore's books on the soul paint a picture of literate, sensitive, and artful human living. In The Education of the Heart he presents many of the sources that influenced and inspired Care of the Soul, Soul Mates, and The... Read more
View audiobookCare of the Soul - Abridged
By: Thomas Moore
Narrated by: Peter Thomas
Length: 3 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: Yes
#1 New York Times Bestseller • More than 1.5 Million Copies SoldThomas Moore's now classic work provides a powerful spiritual message for our troubled times.In Care of the Soul readers are presented with a revolutionary approach to thinking about daily life—everyday activities, events, problems and creative opportunities—and a therapeutic... Read more
View audiobookPlaton und seine Lebensanschauung - Abridged
By: Rudolf Eucken
Narrated by: Michael Kommant
Length: 1 hour 19 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Plato bildet die Höhe der gesamten griechischen Geistesarbeit, indem in ihm ihre beiden Hauptrichtungen, das Erkenntnisverlangen und der Gestaltungstrieb, das wissenschaftliche und das künstlerische Streben, sich miteinander verbinden und durcheinander steigern. Seine Lebensanschauung hat den eigentümlichen Typus des grie-chischen Idealismus... Read more
View audiobookAristoteles - Abridged
By: Fritz Mauthner
Narrated by: Michael Kommant
Length: 2 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Fritz Mauthner, der große Sprachkritiker zeigt hier, dass das Lebenswerk des berühmtesten Philosophen, der Stolz zweier Jahrtausende, nicht mehr als ein Gesellschaftsspiel war. Er nennt Aristoteles einen Denker ohne schöpferische Kraft und bescheinigt ihm keine philosophische Persönlichkeit gewesen zu sein... Read more
View audiobookImmanuel Kant: Die moralische Welt und das Reich des Schönen - Abridged
By: Rudolf Eucken
Narrated by: Michael Kommant
Length: 1 hour 7 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Es dauerte eine Weile, bis Kants Zeitumgebung erkannte, wie sehr seine Leistung ihrem eigenen Streben entgegen-kam. Aber als sie es erkannte, da fielen ihm weiteste Kreise mit heller Begeisterung zu und folgten den von ihm eröffneten Bahnen. Denn sein Werk schien das sie beseelende Verlangen nach Freiheit erst recht zu begründen und abschließend... Read more
View audiobookLe bonheur, désespérément - Abridged
By: André Comte-Sponville
Narrated by: André Comte-Sponville
Length: 1 hour 48 minutes
Abridged: Yes
"Qu'est-ce que je serais heureux si j'étais heureux !" Cette formule de Woody Allen dit peut-être l'essentiel : que nous sommes séparés du bonheur par l'espérance même qui le poursuit. La sagesse serait au contraire de vivre pour de bon, au lieu d'espérer vivre. C'est où l'on rencontre les leçons d'Epicure, des stoïciens, de Spinoza, ou, en... Read more
View audiobookDas neue Weltbild des Physikers Burkhard Heim - Abridged
By: Burkhard Heim
Narrated by: Detlef Kügow
Length: 4 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Englische Zeitungen sahen in ihm den "neuen Einstein". "Steht den Deutschen ein neues Weltbild bevor?" fragte der Stern 1957 in einem Artikel über den fast blinden und tauben sowie Handlosen Physiker Burkhard Heim. Es sieht so aus, als könnte die Frage heute mit "ja" beantwortet werden. Heim vollendet Einsteins Ansätze zu einer einheitlichen... Read more
View audiobookFreiheit - Abridged
By: Wilhelm Vossenkuhl
Narrated by: Wilhelm Vossenkuhl
Length: 58 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Vossenkuhl ist Inhaber des Lehrstuhls I für Philosophie an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in München. Er beschäftigt sich in dieser Folge der Reihe "uni-auditorium" mit der Frage "Was ist Freiheit?" Es gibt mehrere Arten der Freiheit, die des Willens und die des Handelns. Es ist uns selten bewusst, dass Freiheit sehr... Read more
View audiobookPhilosophische Grundbegriffe: Philosophie - Erkenntnis - Wahrheit - Gut - Abridged
By: Rafael Ferber
Narrated by: Detlef Kügow
Length: 4 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Diese kleine Denkschule für Studierte und interessierte Laien führt den Leser verständlich und anspruchsvoll zugleich in die wichtigsten Grundbegriffe der Philosophie ein: Philosophie, Erkenntnis, Wahrheit und das Gute. Inhalt, Methode und Geschichte dieser Disziplin werden auf originelle Weise philosophierend nahe gebracht. Read more
View audiobookDas Philosophenportal - Abridged
By: Robert Zimmer
Narrated by: Martin Umbach & Anja Buczkowsky
Length: 5 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Die Kurzbesichtigung von 16 zentralen Werken der Philosophiegeschichte als Hörbuch enthält folgende Themen: Platon: Der Staat Augustinus: Bekenntnisse Machiavelli: Der Fürst Montaigne: Essais Descartes: Abhandlung über die Methode Pascal: Gedanken Locke: Zwei Abhandlungen über die Regierung Kant: Kritik der reinen Vernunft... Read more
View audiobookIdentität - Abridged
By: Wilhelm Vossenkuhl
Narrated by: Wilhelm Vossenkuhl
Length: 1 hour 2 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Vossenkuhl ist Inhaber des Lehrstuhls I für Philosophie an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in München. Er beschäftigt sich in dieser Folge der Reihe "uni-auditorium" mit der Frage "Wer bin ich?" Mit dieser Frage beschäftigten wir uns meistens dann, wenn es uns besonders schwer fällt, darauf zu antworten. Wie können wir... Read more
View audiobookSternstunden der Philosophie - Abridged
By: Otto Böhmer
Narrated by: Achim Höppner & Anja Buczkowsky
Length: 4 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Bei Pascal war es eine Eingebung wie durch "Feuer", bei Schopenhauer der Anblick von Galeerensklaven, bei Wittgenstein ein Theaterstück, bei Heidegger ein Feldweg. Diese kleine Geschichte der "Erweckungserlebnisse" großer Denker von Platon bis Heidegger ist zugleich eine kurzweilige Einführung in Grundgedanken der abendländischen... Read more
View audiobookEinführung in das Werk Theodor Adornos - Abridged
By: Christoph Demmerling
Narrated by: Christoph Demmerling
Length: 51 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Die Dichte von Adornos Texten erfordert eine Art von Aufmerksamkeit, die der Aufmerksamkeit beim analytischen Hören eines Musikstücks vergleichbar ist. Auch deshalb, und nicht nur, weil die Musik ein wichtiges Sujet der philosophischen Arbeit Adornos ist, würde sich die von ihm gelegentlich gebrauchte Formulierung "mit den Ohren denken" als... Read more
View audiobookLost Triumph
By: Tom Carhart
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 9 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
A fascinating narrative-and a bold new thesis in the study of the Civil War-that suggests Robert E. Lee had a heretofore undiscovered strategy at Gettysburg that, if successful, could have crushed the Union forces and changed the outcome of the war.
The Battle of Gettysburg is the pivotal moment when the Union forces repelled perhaps America's... Read more
Dostoevsky in 90 Minutes
By: Paul Strathern
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 2 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Building on his enormously successful series of Philosophers in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern now applies his witty and incisive prose to brief biographical studies of the world's great writers. He brings their lives and ideas to life in entertaining and accessible fashion.After narrowly avoiding a firing squad when he was just twenty-eight years... Read more
View audiobookHeidegger in 90 Minutes
By: Paul Strathern
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 1 hour 27 minutes
Abridged: No
One of two major philosophical traditions of the twentieth century was Wittgenstein's linguistic analysis. The other, diametrically opposed, came from Heidegger, and his fundamental question: "What is the meaning of existence?" For Heidegger, this question was beyond the reach of reason and was the primary "given" of every individual life. To... Read more
View audiobookPlato in 90 Minutes
By: Paul Strathern
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 1 hour 14 minutes
Abridged: No
In an age when philosophers had scarcely glimpsed the horizons of the mind, a boy named Aristocles decided to forgo his ambitions as a wrestler. Adopting the nickname Plato, he embarked instead on a life in philosophy. In 387 BC he founded the Academy, the world's first university, and taught his students that all we see is not reality but... Read more
View audiobookWittgenstein in 90 Minutes
By: Paul Strathern
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 1 hour 16 minutes
Abridged: No
If we accept Wittgenstein's word for it, he is the last philosopher. In his view, philosophy in the traditional sense was finished.Ludwig Wittgenstein was a superb logician who distrusted language and sought to solve the problems of philosophy by reducing them to logic. All else—metaphysics, aesthetics, ethics, finally even philosophy itself—was... Read more
View audiobookNietzsche in 90 Minutes
By: Paul Strathern
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 1 hour 14 minutes
Abridged: No
With Friedrich Nietzsche, philosophy was dangerous not only for philosophers but for everyone. Nietzsche ultimately went mad, but his ideas presaged a collective madness that had horrific consequences in Europe in the early 1900s. Though his philosophy is more one of aphorisms and insights than a system, it is brilliant, persuasive, and... Read more
View audiobookKierkegaard in 90 Minutes
By: Paul Strathern
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 1 hour 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Kierkegaard wasn't really a philosopher in the academic sense, yet he produced what many people expect of philosophy. He didn't write about the world, he wrote about life, about how we live, and how we choose to live. His subject was the individual and his or her existence, the "existing being." In Kierkegaard's view, this purely subjective... Read more
View audiobookKant in 90 Minutes
By: Paul Strathern
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 1 hour 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Immanuel Kant taught and wrote prolifically about physical geography yet never traveled further than forty miles from his home in Königsberg. How appropriate it is then that in his philosophy he should deny that all knowledge was derived from experience. Kant's aim was to restore metaphysics. He insisted that all experience must conform to... Read more
View audiobookAristotle in 90 Minutes
By: Paul Strathern
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 1 hour 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Aristotle wrote on everything from the shape of seashells to sterility, from speculations on the nature of the soul to meteorology, poetry, art, and even the interpretation of dreams. Apart from mathematics, he transformed every field of knowledge that he touched. Above all, Aristotle is credited with the founding of logic. When he first divided... Read more
View audiobookRousseau in 90 Minutes
By: Paul Strathern
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 1 hour 28 minutes
Abridged: No
In Rousseau we encounter a walking ego, a naked sensibility. Feeling triumphs over intellectual argument in his works, which are both deeply stirring and deeply inconsistent. Yet while his contemporaries Kant and Hume may have been superior academic philosophers, the sheer power of Rousseau’s ideas was unequaled in his time. It was he who... Read more
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