Philosophy audiobooks

Evangelical Teaching

By: George Eliot

Narrated by: Sarah Bacaller

Length: 1 hour 32 minutes

Abridged: No

“Evangelical Teaching” is an insightful 1855 essay written by George Eliot (Marian Evans) and published in The Westminster Review. Here, Eliot explores ethical problems inherent in certain strands and styles of Christian evangelical teaching—particularly as displayed in the writings of one Dr. Cumming. While Eliot’s critique is focused on the... Read more

SURVIVE

By: Jerry Pannone

Narrated by: Jerry Pannone

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

We’re coming to understand that life in this world is that of an extended family, not just from a human perspective, but from all manner and forms of sentient organisms. The purpose of Survive is not to enumerate the processes of every kind of life up the evolutionary tree, from bacteria to humans, but to look for the common denominators on that... Read more

அசோகர் கதைகள் - Asokar Kadhaigal

By: Na Ra Nachiappan

Narrated by: Priya KS

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Tamil Moral Stories for Kids by Na Ra Nachiappan Read more

Путь к спокойствию

By: Ievgen Bulba

Narrated by: Ievgen Bulba

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Почему нас гложут тревожность, эмоциональная усталость и неудовлетворённость? Почему раздражают близкие, привычный быт и даже собственный характер? Почему мы так часто мечтаем о покое и так редко его находим?Откуда приходит гнев и почему обладает неподконтрольной мощью? Почему мы превращаемся в орущее скандальное существо, потом ненавидим себя и... Read more

Erfareren

By: Tom W. Ottmar

Narrated by: Tom W. Ottmar

Length: 15 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Forfatteren mener bestemt at idealismen er den filosofiske retningen som gir den korrekte filosofiske og vitenskapelige forståelsen av verden. Ingenting materielt eksisterer, alt er forestillinger i én enkelt, universell bevissthet.Er det mulig? Er det sannsynlig?Denne boken viser at det faktisk er den mest sannsynlige forklaringen av alle. I en... Read more

Ответственность и свобода

By: Лятучы ўніверсітэт

Narrated by: Зміцер Макарчук

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

В рубрике «классическое образование» представляем коллекцию текстов философов, интеллектуалов и общественных деятелей, которые обращаются к теме ответственности человека. Речь идет прежде всего о понимании индивидуальной ответственности в исторических ситуациях, о мужестве действия и мышления, о границах и основаниях свободного действия.В... Read more

La Volonté de puissance

By: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Narrated by: Olivier Valiente

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Dans la veine de son célèbre Crépuscule des Idoles, ce recueil d'aphorismes qui ne fut jamais achevé par l'auteur — le projet initial fut abandonné en 1888 — visait à exposer l'ensemble de sa doctrine dans un ouvrage synthétique. L'existence même de ce livre suscita de vives polémiques et aujourd'hui encore la fiabilité de certains passages... Read more

Artful Truths

By: Helena de Bres

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an auto-narrated audiobook edition of this book.

Offers a philosophical perspective on the nature and value of writing a memoir.
 
Artful Truths offers a concise guide to the fundamental philosophical questions that arise when writing a literary work about your own life. Bringing a philosopher’s perspective to a general audience, Helena... Read more

Diálogos sobre Religión Natural

By: David Hume

Narrated by: Jorge Ramírez

Length: 4 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

"Diálogos sobre religión natural" es una obra del filósofo escocés David Hume, publicada póstumamente en 1779. En esta obra, Hume utiliza el formato de un diálogo filosófico para explorar las preguntas fundamentales sobre la existencia y naturaleza de Dios.En los diálogos, los personajes discuten si la existencia de Dios puede ser probada a... Read more

Les 42 points d'enseignements proférés par Bouddha

By: Joseph Gabet & Évariste Huc

Narrated by: Daniel Franck

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: No

En ce tems-là, Bouddah, le suprême des êtres, ayant révélé ses enseignements, ils se propagèrent de la manière suivante. Cinq hommes du rang des initiés, parvenus par le dépouillement de leurs passions à une paix profonde et inaltérable, passaient leurs jours dans une sublime contemplation  dans le dessein de dompter la troupe des démons. Comme... Read more

Luminous Darkness

By: Deborah Eden Tull

Narrated by: Deborah Eden Tull

Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A resonant call to explore the darkness in life, in nature, and in consciousness through teachings, embodied meditations, and mindful inquiry that provide us with a powerful path to healing.



Darkness is deeply misunderstood in today's world; yet it offers powerful medicine, serenity, strength, healing, and regeneration. All insight, vision,... Read more

The Quest for a Moral Compass

By: Kenan Malik

Narrated by: Homer Todiwala

Length: 15 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Accessible, fascinating, and thought-provoking, this is the groundbreaking story of the global search for moral truths



In this remarkable book, Kenan Malik explores the history of moral thought as it has developed over three millennia, from Homer's Greece to Mao's China, from ancient India to modern America. It tells the stories of the great... Read more

Ode aan de verwondering

By: Caroline Pauwels

Narrated by: Joke Devynck & Jeroen Medaer

Length: 2 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Kinderen zijn vaak verwonderd. Waarom is de zee blauw? Waarom wordt het donker? Waarom is die meneer kaal? Ergens op weg naar de volwassenheid verliezen de meesten van ons die onbevangenheid. Gaandeweg wordt het vuur van de nieuwsgierigheid gedoofd: de dingen zijn nu eenmaal wat ze zijn, er is niets nieuws onder de zon. En dat is jammer.... Read more

Avatar: The Last Airbender and Philosophy

By: unknown

Narrated by: Tegan Ashton Cohan & Diontae Black

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Would our world be a better place if some of us were benders? Can Katara repair the world through care? Is Toph a disability pride icon? What does it mean for Zuko to be bad at being good? Can we tell whether uncle Iroh is a fool or a sage?



On the face of it, Avatar: The Last Airbender is a story about a lone superhero. However, saving the world... Read more

Dune and Philosophy

By: Kevin S. Decker

Narrated by: Ariana Delawari & Nas Mehdi

Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

"He who controls the spice controls the universe." Frank Herbert's Dune saga is the epic story of Paul, son of Duke Leto Atreides, and heir to the massive fortune promised by the desert planet Arrakis and its vast reservoirs of a drug called "spice." To control the spice, Paul and his mother Jessica, a devotee of the pseudo-religious Bene... Read more

A Hidden Wisdom

By: Christina Van Dyke

Narrated by: Christina Van Dyke

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Medieval philosophy is primarily associated today with university-based disputations and the authorities cited in those disputations. In their own time, however, scholastic debates were recognized as just one part of wide-ranging philosophical and theological discussions. A Hidden Wisdom breaks new ground by drawing attention to another crucial... Read more

Theätet

By: Platon

Narrated by: Volker Braumann

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Was ist Wissen? Dies ist die grundlegende Frage, die Platon in dem Dialog "Theätet" verhandelt. Um diese so gewichtige Frage philosophisch zu diskutieren, lässt Platon seinen Sokrates mit dem Mathematiker Theodoros und dessen Schüler Theätet zusammentreffen. Während der ältliche Theodoros für den Erkenntnisgang des Dialogs eher die Rolle des... Read more

La Teoria de los Sentimientos Morales

By: Adam Smith

Narrated by: Sebastian Borjas

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

La teoría de los sentimientos morales de Adam Smith es una obra publicada por el filósofo y economista escocés en 1759. En ella, Smith presenta su visión sobre la moralidad y la conducta humana, y sostiene que la moralidad se basa en los sentimientos y emociones humanas más que en la razón.Según Smith, los seres humanos tienen una tendencia... Read more

Avoiding the Worst

By: Tobias Baumann

Narrated by: Adrian Nelson

Length: 2 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

How can we avoid worst-case scenarios?From Nineteen Eighty-Four to Black Mirror, we are all familiar with the tropes of dystopian science fiction. But what if worst-case scenarios could actually become reality? And what if we could do something now to put the world on a better path?In Avoiding the Worst, Tobias Baumann lays out the concept of... Read more

What Makes Time Special?

By: Craig Callender

Narrated by: Ray Greenley

Length: 16 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

As we navigate through life we instinctively model time as having a flowing present that divides a fixed past from open future. This model develops in childhood and is deeply saturated within our language, thought, and behavior, affecting our conceptions of the universe, freedom, and the self. Yet as central as it is to our lives, physics seems... Read more

Talking Cure

By: Paula Marantz Cohen

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Talking Cure is a timely and enticing excursion into the art of good conversation. Paula Marantz Cohen reveals how conversation connects us in ways that social media never can and explains why simply talking to each other freely and without guile may be the cure to what ails our troubled society.



Drawing on her lifelong immersion in literature... Read more

Ethics in the Real World, Revised Edition

By: Peter Singer

Narrated by: Julian Elfer

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Peter Singer is often described as the world's most influential philosopher. He is also one of its most controversial. He helped launch the animal rights and effective altruism movements and contributed to the development of bioethics. Now, in Ethics in the Real World, Singer shows that he is also a master at dissecting important current events... Read more

Cloud-hidden, Whereabouts Unknown

By: Alan Watts

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Over the course of nineteen essays, Alan Watts ("a spiritual polymatch, the first and possibly greatest" —Deepak Chopra) ruminates on the philosophy of nature, ecology, aesthetics, religion, and metaphysics.

Assembled in the form of a “mountain journal,” written during a retreat in the foothills of Mount Tamalpais, CA, Cloud-Hidden, Whereabouts... Read more

Discourse on Metaphysics - Unabridged

By: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Narrated by: Joseph Wycoff

Length: 2 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Written in 1686 by the celebrated German polymath Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, Discourse on Metaphysics is a short, early work in which Leibniz explains how the Earth, which was created by God (an undeniably perfect being), is therefore blessed with the same purity and perfection as its creator.
Leibniz was one of the most important... Read more