Philosophy

The Theory of Moral Sentiments

by Adam Smith Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
"How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortunes of other…

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

by Henry David Thoreau Read by Gord Mackenzie 4.7
Civil Disobedience is an essay by Henry David Thoreau. Published in 1849 under the title Resistance to Civil Government, it expressed Thorea…

My Confession

by Leo Tolstoy Read by Expatriate 4.6
"My Confession" is a brief autobiographical story of Leo Tolstoy's struggle with a mid-life existential crisis of melancholia. It …

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

by David Hume Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
The Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is a shortened and simplified version of Hume's masterpiece A Treatise of Human Nature. It sough…

The Analysis of Mind

by Bertrand Russell Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
The Analysis of Mind presents a thoughtful exploration of the philosophy of mind by renowned 20th-century philosopher Bertrand Russell. In t…

The Critique of Pure Reason

by Immanuel Kant Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
The Critique of Pure Reason, first published in 1781 with a second edition in 1787, has been called the most influential and important philo…

The Ethics

by Benedict De Spinoza Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
The Ethics is a philosophical book written by Baruch Spinoza. It was written in Latin. Although it was published posthumously in 1677, it is…

The Guide for the Perplexed

by Moses Maimonides Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.9
The Guide for the Perplexed by Mūsá ibn Maymūn (known throughout the Christian West as Moses Maimonides) is regarded as one of the mo…

Sadhana, The Realisation of Life

by Rabindranath Tagore Read by Peter Yearsley 4.7
A collection of essays on the Hindu/Buddhist view of humankind's place in the universe. As the author says in his introduction: "in the…

The Book of Tea

by Kakuzō Okakura Read by Clive Catterall 5
The Book of Tea is as much about philosophy, religion and art as it is about a drink made with dried leaves in boiling water. It traces the …

Human, All Too Human

by Friedrich Nietzsche Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
"Human, all-too-Human, is the monument of a crisis. It is entitled: 'A book for free spirits,' and almost every line in it represents a…

The Origin Of Species

by Charles Darwin Read by Michael Armenta 4.7
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin is a groundbreaking work that laid the foundation for the field of evolutionary biology. In this sem…

The Dhammapada

by Unknowntranslated Byf. Max Müller and Unknowntranslated By F. Max Müller Read by Jothi Tharavant 4.7
- A Collection of Verses Being One of the Canonical Books of the BuddhistsDhammapada means "The path of Dharma." The Pali word Dha…

A Divine Cordial

by Thomas Watson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
This book is an exposition of Romans 8:28: "We know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the c…

Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy

by Bertrand Russell Read by Landon D. C. Elkind 4.6
Bertrand Russell wrote 'Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy' while imprisoned for protesting Britain's involvement in World War I. Russe…

Politics

by Aristotle Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
The Politics, by the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, is one of the most influential texts in political philosophy. In it, Aristotle exp…

The Basis Of Morality

by Arthur Schopenhauer Read by Jeffrey Allen Stumpf 4.9
In 1837, the Danish Royal Society of Sciences offered a prize to any essayist who could satisfactorily answer the question, "Is the fou…

Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One’s Reason and of Seeking Truth

by René Descartes Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
The Discourse on Method is best known as the source of the famous quotation “cogito ergo sum”, “I think, therefore I am.” …. It is a method …

Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers

by Charles Bradlaugh Read by Ted Delorme 4.7
This book presents a brief bio and a summary of important ideas & events in the lives of 23 great philosophers from ancient times throug…

The Shining Gateway

by James Allen Read by Audio Andrea 4.6
Students of the works of James Allen all over the world will welcome with joy another book from his able pen. In this work we find the Proph…

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