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The Book of Tea (Version 2)
Read by Clive Catterall
Kakuzō Okakura
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 …
The Prophet (version 5)
Read by Ruth Golding
Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet is the best known work of Khalil Gibran, also known as Kahlil Gibran, a Lebanese American poet and artist.The poetic prose of Th…
Christian Science
Read by John Greenman
Mark Twain
Christian Science is a 1907 collection of essays Mark Twain wrote about Christian Science, beginning with an article that was published in C…
Invisible Helpers
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C. W. Leadbeater
Even in this incredulous age, and amidst the full whirl of our nineteenth-century civilization, in spite of the dogmatism of our science and…
A System of Logic
Read by Chris Greaves
John Stuart Mill
"In this work, he formulated the five principles of inductive reasoning that are known as Mill's Methods. This work is important in the…
Six Radical Thinkers: Bentham, J.S. Mill, Cobden, Carlyle, Mazzini, T.H. Green
Read by Pamela Nagami
John Maccunn
A radical is a person who holds extreme or unconventional convictions and who advocates fundamental political, economic, or social reforms. …
The Destination Of Man
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Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Johanne Fichte published The Destination of Man (Die Bestimmung des Menschen) in 1799. It was translated into English in 1846 by Jane Sinnet…
The Priest and His Disciples (Shaw Translation)
Read by Expatriate
Hyakuzō Kurata
At the age of twenty-six (at the height of the Great War in Europe), the religious pilgrim and maverick Kurata Hyakuzō wrote a profoundly ph…
Thomas Hobbes
Read by Jim Locke
Alfred Edward Taylor
This work is a look at the life and ideas of Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher of the seventeenth century. The most important ideas are fo…
Pauls Ontwaken
Read by Anna Simon
Frederik Van Eeden
In dit aangrijpende korte werk beschrijft de schrijver en psychiater Frederik van Eeden het leven en met name de dood van Paul, de jongste z…
The New Idealism
Read by Expatriate
May Sinclair
The genius of May Sinclair lies in her brilliant bridging of the Victorian and the modern eras, in her determination never to become ossifie…
The Problem of Truth
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Herbert Wildon Carr
A problem of philosophy is completely different from a problem of science. In science we accept our subject-matter as it is presented in una…
The Intermediate Sex: A Study of Some Transitional Types of Men and Women
Read by Chuck Williamson
Edward Carpenter
Written in 1908 by socialist critic and gay rights activist Edward Carpenter, The Intermediate Sex is a thoughtful, humanizing, and frequent…
Вехи-Сборник статей о русской интеллигенции (Vekhi)
Read by Kazbek
Nikolai Berdyaev, Sergei Bulgakov, Semyon Frank, Mikhail Gershenzon, Bogdan Kistyakovski, Aron Lande and Peter Struve
Сборник «Вехи» объединяет философские эссе, посвященные русской интеллигенции и её исторической роли. Появление сборника в 1909-…
Philosophy
Read by Ciufi Galeazzi
Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell was a well known mathematician, philosopher, and author. First published in England under the title "An Outline of Ph…
Bushido: el alma del Japón
Read by Epachuko
Inazō Nitobe
Inazō Nitobé, plasmó el código de los samuráis, guerreros japoneses, para dar a conocer y difundir los valores y…
Ontology, or the Theory of Being
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Peter Coffey
The book is an introduction to metaphysics and Thomistic Ontology. - Summary by shreyasethi
The Service
Read by Phil Schempf
Henry David Thoreau
An essay in three parts written in July 1840. "Human life is his topic, and he views it with an Oriental scope of thought, in which di…
The Nature and Authority of Conscience
Read by John Greenman
Rufus Jones
Rufus Matthew Jones (January 25, 1863 – June 16, 1948) was an American religious leader, writer, magazine editor, philosopher, and college p…
Practical Mysticism (Version 2)
Read by Owlivia
Evelyn Underhill
I write only for the larger class which, repelled by the formidable appearance of more elaborate works on the subject, would yet like to kno…