Philosophy

The Quest of the Historical Jesus

by Albert Schweitzer Read by JoeD 5
In this book, Schweitzer traces the historical progress of 'Historical Jesus' research, from Hermann Reimarus in the mid 18th century, to Wi…

The Prince

by Niccolò Machiavelli Read by Bob Neufeld 4.8
The Prince (Italian: Il Principe) is a political treatise by the Italian diplomat, historian and political theorist Niccolò Machiavel…

The Divine Companion

by James Allen Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
James Allen was a British philosophical writer known for his inspirational books and poetry and as a pioneer of the self-help movement. In t…

Critias

by Plato Read by Kevin Johnson 4.5
This is an incomplete dialogue from the late period of Plato's life. Plato most likely created it after Republic and it contains the famous …

The Problems of Philosophy

by Bertrand Russell Read by Landon D. C. Elkind 4.6
This 1912 book remains among the most widely-used and well-written introductions to philosophy in English. It was aimed to be an accessible …

Euthyphro

by Plato Read by Andrew Miller 4.4
Awaiting his trial on charges of impiety and heresy, Socrates encounters Euthyphro, a self-proclaimed authority on matters of piety and the …

The Philosophy of Immanuel Kant

by Alexander Dunlop Lindsay Read by A. Bryan Johnson 4.6
Born in Scotland, Alexander Dunlop Lindsay was a teacher of philosophy at a number of universities in England in the early 1900s. This brief…

A Treatise Of Human Nature

by David Hume Read by George Yeager 4.5
This book, published in two volumes called "books" by the author, is a treatment of everything from the origin of our ideas to how…

The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

by Patanjali Read by Jothi Tharavant 4.6
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali are in themselves exceedingly brief, less than ten pages of large type in the original. Yet they contain the es…

On Life

by Leo Tolstoy Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
What is the "good life" for us mortal beings? Two months spent recovering from a severe injury allowed Tolstoy to develop and orga…

The New Organon

by Francis Bacon Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
The Novum Organum is a philosophical work by Francis Bacon published in 1620. The title translates as "new instrument". This is a …

An Essay on Man

by Alexander Pope Read by Martin Geeson 4.7
Pope’s Essay on Man, a masterpiece of concise summary in itself, can fairly be summed up as an optimistic enquiry into mankind’s place in th…

Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

by Patanjali Read by Maggie Russell 4.7
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali is a foundational text of yoga philosophy, offering profound insights into the nature of the mind, consciousnes…

Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia

by Samuel Johnson Read by Martin Geeson 4.3
In this enchanting fable (subtitled The Choice of Life), Rasselas and his retinue burrow their way out of the totalitarian paradise of the H…

The Lifted Veil

by George Eliot Read by Bruce Pirie 4.5
The Lifted Veil is a thought-provoking novella by George Eliot that delves into the realms of the supernatural and the unknown. Set against …

Sadhana, the Realisation of Life

by Rabindranath Tagore Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.9
Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali poet, philosopher, visual artist, playwright, composer, and novelist whose work reshaped Bengali literatur…

Reflections on War and Death

by Sigmund Freud Read by D.E. Wittkower 4.5
Anyone, as Freud tells us in Reflections on War and Death, forced to react against his own impulses may be described as a hypocrite, whether…

Essays in Radical Empiricism

by William James Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
Essays in Radical Empiricism presents a thought-provoking exploration of the nature of experience and reality through the lens of William Ja…

Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll

by Robert G. Ingersoll Read by Ted Delorme 4.8
Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll presents a compelling collection of thought-provoking lectures from one of the most influential orators of t…

Gorgias

by Plato Read by Kevin Johnson 4.6
This dialogue brings Socrates face to face with the famous sophist Gorgias and his followers. It is a work likely completed around the time …

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