Philosophy audiobooks

Silence

By: Erling Kagge

Narrated by: Atli Gunnarsson

Length: 2 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

What is silence?

Where can it be found?

Why is it now more important than ever?

In 1993, Norwegian explorer Erling Kagge spent fifty days walking solo across Antarctica, becoming the first person to reach the South Pole alone, accompanied only by a radio whose batteries he had removed before setting out. In this book. an astonishing and... Read more

The Essentials of Hinduism

By: Trilochan Sastry

Narrated by: Debajit Saikia

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Hinduism is an ancient religion, philosophy and way of life. Unlike other great religions that are based on a small set of books, there are hundreds of texts in Hinduism, most of which are very voluminous. They span not merely centuries, but millennia. And most importantly, these ancient scriptures are all in Sanskrit which many do not know.... Read more

Caligula and Three Other Plays

By: Albert Camus

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Alyssa Bresnahan, John Skell...

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Four thought-provoking masterworks for the theater by the Nobel Prize–winning author of The Stranger and The Plague, in a restorative new translation by Ryan Bloom that brings together, for the first time in English, Camus’s final versions of the plays, along with deleted scenes and alternate lines of dialogue. Though known for his novels that... Read more

Ewiges Leben

By: Manfred E. Hölz

Narrated by: Max W. Ostmaier

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Der Autor als Nichtraucher findet eine Zigarettenschachtel. Vom Warnhinweis ausgehend begibt er sich kreuz und quer durch Religion, Kirche und Bibel. Er entdeckt dabei eine ganze Reihe von Widersprüchen. Vor allem die Kirche als Institution wird respektlos kritisiert für ihren Umgang mit den 10 Geboten, aber auch Aussagen zur ewigen Ruhe und zum... Read more

How Do We Know? - Abridged

By: Mark W. Foreman & James K. Dew Jr.

Narrated by: Brandon Bell

Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

What does it mean to know something? Can we have confidence in our knowledge? Epistemology, the study of knowledge, can often seem like a daunting subject. And yet few topics are more basic to human life. We are inquisitive creatures by nature, and the unending quest for truth leads us to raise difficult questions about the quest itself. What... Read more

The Daily Tao

By: William Martin

Narrated by: Mike Fraser

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Choose peace over distraction and flexibility over fear with this accessible daily guide to the timeless wisdom of the Tao Te Ching.

Whether you begin your morning with the Tao or snatch a spare moment of calm in the hurry of the day, The Daily Tao–with a reading from the Tae Te Ching for every day of the year–will create a practice of... Read more

The Story of Philosophy Deluxe Edition with The Age of Faith The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers Includes Bonus Book - The Age of Faith: The Climax of Christianity 1095-1300, From the Crusades through Dante Will Durant, Ph.D.

By: Will Durant, Ph.D.

Narrated by: David Markus & Brian Conover

Length: 49 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Philosophy has often seemed like the castor oil of the disciplines: healthy, but never pleasurable, and best when swallowed quickly and forgotten.

Although this view is understandable, it is regrettable. It isolates intelligent readers from some of the most important thought of Western civilization, much of which underlies our understanding of... Read more

The Age of Faith

By: Will Durant, PhD

Narrated by: Brian Conover

Length: 29 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

“I cannot imagine anyone so erudite that they cannot learn a great deal from this monumental work.” —from the foreword by Richard Smoley

The great series The Story of Civilization by Will and Ariel Durant is one of the most monumental achievements in historical writing. In its eleven massive volumes, it tells the story of Western civilization... Read more

El arte de vivir

By: Epicteto

Narrated by: Miguel Ángel Jenner

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Una nueva traducción del manual de vida de Epicteto, un texto que destila los principios del estoicismo en consejos prácticos y directos para cultivar la resiliencia, la paz interna y la libertad personal. Epicteto, maestro de la Antigüedad y uno de los más grandes filósofos estoicos, promulgaba que la felicidad se logra al aceptar lo que no... Read more

A Defence of Detective Stories

By: G. K. Chesterton

Narrated by: Sarah Bacaller

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

While some may argue that the detective story is an example of cheap, dispensable popular fiction, G. K. Chesterton begs to differ. He is, after all, the author of the Father Brown mysteries! Where else but in detective novels do we appreciate the romance of the city?This essay is from a series titled The Defendant, first published as a... Read more

A Defence of Nonsense

By: G. K. Chesterton

Narrated by: Sarah Bacaller

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Nonsense, argues G. K. Chesterton, deserves more serious attention than we may initially assume. It is in nonsense that we regain a sense of wonder at the world – by appreciating the pure serendipitousness of the beauty that fills our lives.This essay is one in a series titled The Defendant, first published as a collection in 1901, after the... Read more

A Defence of Humility

By: G. K. Chesterton

Narrated by: Sarah Bacaller

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Humility gets a bad rap these days, especially when contrasted with philosophies of egoism and self-assertion. But can we see the world as it really is without losing ourselves for a moment to take up the perspective of another?Such is the argument of G. K. Chesterton in this delightful essay, “A Defence of Humility.”This essay is one in a... Read more

The Wisdom Of Life

By: Arthur Schopenhauer

Narrated by: Christopher Turner

Length: 3 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Arthur Schopenhauer's ""The Wisdom of Life"" is a compelling exploration into the nature of happiness and fulfillment.Written by a renowned 19th-century philosopher, this work delves into human desires and motivations, offering a unique perspective on finding meaning in life.Schopenhauer suggests that true contentment comes from within,... Read more

What Is Stoicism?

By: Tanner Campbell & Kai Whiting

Narrated by: Tanner Campbell

Length: 2 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

An easy, jargon-free introduction to stoicism that covers the full range of stoic thought in a single compact volume

Divided into short chapters that can be read in brief sittings, What Is Stoicism? compiles two millennia of Stoic thought into simple conversational prose. This whistle-stop tour of Stoicism covers a surprising number of core... Read more

Sri Ramanuja Divya Charitam

By: J Parthasarathy

Narrated by: Uma Maheswari

Length: 3 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

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What Is It Like to Be a Bat?

By: Thomas Nagel

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: No

"Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable." So begins Thomas Nagel's classic 1974 essay "What is it Like to be a Bat?" Nagel's essay initiated the now widespread attention to consciousness as a central problem for philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience; it also influenced the recognition of the consciousness of... Read more

The Joy Document

By: Jennifer McGaha

Narrated by: Dina Pearlman

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

When Jennifer McGaha's grandmother was in her late eighties, Jennifer asked her what her favorite age so far had been. "Fifty-five," her grandmother answered, as though there were something magical about this stage of life. So, in her own fifty-fifth year, Jennifer began to take note. She jotted down her impressions of simple, everyday things... Read more

Goethes Geistesart

By: Rudolf Steiner

Narrated by: Christian Clement

Length: 2 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Wie in den Schriften "Vom Menschenrätsel" und "Von Seelenrätseln" unternimmt Rudolf Steiner auch in der Schrift "Goethes Geistesart" den Versuch, die von ihm entwickelte anthroposophische Geisteswissenschaft in ein Verhältnis zu den bestehenden Wissenschaften zu setzen, in diesem Fall besonders mit den Geisteswissenschaften und der... Read more

Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung

By: Arthur Schopenhauer

Narrated by: Volker Braumann

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Mit ebenso großer Klarheit und Eleganz wie im 1. Band seines Hauptwerks setzt Arthur Schopenhauer auch im 2. Band von "Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung" seine pessimistisch-voluntaristische Metaphysik des Lebens fort, wobei er, direkt Bezug nehmend auf Paragrafen des 1. Bandes, zentrale Gedanken seiner Philosophie weiter vertieft und um mehr... Read more

Vom Menschenrätsel

By: Rudolf Steiner

Narrated by: Christian Clement

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Während der Jahre des Ersten Weltkrieges widmete sich Steiner intensiv der Verteidigung seiner anthroposophischen Geisteswissenschaft gegen zeitgenössische Kritiker. Die Schrift ›Vom Menschenrätsel‹ von 1916 ist Ausdruck dieser Bemühungen. Steiner legt darin Wert darauf, die Anthroposophie methodisch klarer zu fassen als in früheren Texten und... Read more

Von Seelenrätseln

By: Rudolf Steiner

Narrated by: Christian Clement

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Während der Jahre des Ersten Weltkrieges widmete sich Steiner intensiv der Verteidigung seiner anthroposophischen Geisteswissenschaft gegen zeitgenössische Kritiker. Die Schrift ›Von Seelenrätseln‹ von 1917 ist Ausdruck dieser Bemühungen. Steiner legt darin Wert darauf, die Anthroposophie methodisch klarer zu fassen als in früheren Texten und... Read more

Haeckel und seine Gegner

By: Rudolf Steiner

Narrated by: Christian Clement

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Die Entwicklungstheorie Ernst Haeckels und insbesondere dessen »biogenetisches Grundgesetz« übten einen kaum zu überschätzenden Einfluss auf das steinersche Denken aus. Der kurze Text "Haeckel und seine Gegner" von 1900 bildet, neben seinen anderen intellektuellen Biographien über Goethe und Nietzsche, eine aufschlussreiche Quelle zum... Read more

Become What You Are

By: Alan Watts

Narrated by: Jeremy Stockwell

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The prominent Zen Buddhist scholar and author of The Wisdom of Insecurity draws on Taoism, Christianity, and other world religions to explore the dilemma of seeking your true self. In this collection, Alan Watts displays the intelligence, playfulness of thought, and simplicity of language that has made him so perennially popular as an... Read more

What is a chaste mind?

By: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Narrated by: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Length: 1 hour 36 minutes

Abridged: No

"What is a chaste mind? - 4 August 1974 • The word 'chaste' means pure, clean, untouched. • Have we a chaste mind, a mind that has not been hurt, has no image, is free from the pleasure of yesterday and is innocent? • Is chastity a quality of the mind? • Can the mind be free of the word, symbols and the condemnation and approval of the word? •... Read more