Philosophy
Early Greek Philosophy and Other Essays
Read by Jim Locke
Friedrich Nietzsche
The essays contained in this volume treat of various subjects. With the exception of perhaps one we must consider all these papers as fragme…
Winds of Doctrine: Studies in Contemporary Opinion
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George Santayana
Even before the Great War turned the world upside down, Western civilization was being revolutionized at all levels: intellectually, philos…
Philosophy
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BBC Radio 4 produced a unique series and aired a weekly podcast . Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the history of philosophy - from ancie…
Areopagitica (Version 2)
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
John Milton
The noblest and most extensive defense of freedom of the press in English. Although Milton was sufficiently practical to serve as a censor o…
The City of the Sun
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Tommaso Campanella
A dialogue between a Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitallers and a Genoese Sea-captain, about the latter's voyage to a utopian city. (Summar…
Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of The Universe: Introduction
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Alexander Von Humboldt
Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt was a Prussian geographer, naturalist, explorer, and influential proponent of romantic phi…
Of the Injustice of Counterfeiting Books
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Immanuel Kant
This essay of Kant’s on copyright argues that the unlicensed copying of books cannot possibly be permissible, due to the fact that it assume…
Bacon
Read by Bill Boerst
Richard William Church
This investigation of Bacon the scholar and man of letters begins with a look at the early days and progresses to his relationships with Que…
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 007
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Various
A collection of fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches, news items and reports included in this collectio…
The Life of Reason volume 2
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George Santayana
The Life of Reason, subtitled "the Phases of Human Progress", is a book published in five volumes from 1905 to 1906, by Spanish-bo…
The Persian Hidden Words
Read by Nicholas James Bridgewater
Bahá'U'Lláh
Kalimát-i-Maknúnih (کلمات مکنونه) or The Hidden Words is a book written in Baghdad around 1857 by Bahá'u'lláh, t…
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together With Death's Duel
Read by David Wales
John Donne
Devotions upon Emergent Occasions is a 1624 prose work by the English theologian and writer John Donne, Dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral in Lond…
Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Teachers
Read by Luke Sartor
Elbert Hubbard
Elbert Hubbard describes the homes of authors, poets, social reformers and other prestigious people, reflecting on how their surroundings ma…
Common Sense, How to Exercise It
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Yoritomo Tashi
One of three seminal philosophical works by the twelfth century Japanese Shogun, Yoritomo-Tashi. (From the Preface) He knows how to clothe…
Buddhist Psychology; Mind and Mental Process (Lorig) Complete Series
Emily Hsu
Buddhist Psychology; Mind and Mental Process (Lorig) Complete Series Basic Buddhist Studies Program Emily Hsu "All human accomplishment…
Poems and Prose for the Departed Vol. 01
Read by Ruth Golding
Various
This is a collection of short poems and readings, both religious and secular, on death and bereavement. (Summary by Ruth Golding)
Modern Magic
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Maximilian Schele De Vere
M. (Maxamilian) Schele de Vere was born in Sweden in 1820 and studied language in Germany before eventually becoming a professor of modern l…
Emily Hsu - Mahayana Mind Transformation
Emily Hsu
Mahayana Mind Training Wheel of Sharp Weapons Emily Hsu This classic text reveals how we train our minds to face the obstacles and problems …
Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 8, October 1906
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Various
Mother Earth, an American anarchist journal, was self styled as "A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature". Mo…