Philosophy

The Prophet

by Khalil Gibran 4.8
Language: EnglishThe Prophet is the best known work of Khalil Gibran, also known as Kahlil Gibran, a Lebanese American poet and artist.…

Life of Henry David Thoreau

by Henry Salt Read by PhyllisV 5
Henry David Thoreau was a fascinating man, contributing vast amounts of information on nature history, leading the way for environmentalism.…

Thomas Hobbes

by Alfred Edward Taylor Read by Jim Locke 4.8
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…

Karma

by Annie Besant Read by Karen V. 4.5
Many have heard the word Karma - the law of cause and effect governing human actions, thoughts, and desires - but rarely do people understan…

Life's Enthusiasms

by David Starr Jordan Read by Bill Boerst 4.2
The words in this essay on positive thought sing like those in Whitman's "Leaves of Grass." The author praises joyous living and r…

The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche

by Friedrich Nietzsche Read by Jim Locke 4.5
Volume 3 of the complete works contains several short critical introductory essays, five lectures under the heading "On the Future of o…

The Life of Reason

by George Santayana Read by Fredrik Karlsson 4
The Life of Reason, subtitled "the Phases of Human Progress", is a book published in five volumes from 1905 to 1906, by Spanish-bo…

Beyond Good and Evil

by Friedrich Nietzsche Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
First published in 1886 at Nietzsche’s own expense, the book was not initially considered important. In it, Nietzsche denounced what he cons…

Thus Spake Zarathustra

by Friedrich Nietzsche Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844–1900) was a nineteenth-century German philosopher. He wrote critical texts on religion, morality, contempo…

On the Popular Judgment

by Immanuel Kant Read by D.E. Wittkower 4
This tripartite essay – published variously as “On the Popular Judgment” (J. Richardson trans.), “On the Old Saw” (E.B. Ashton trans.), or “…

Poetics

by Aristotle Read by Robert Foster 3.8
Aristotle’s Poetics from the 4th century B.C. aims to give a short study of storytelling. It discusses things like unity of plot, reversal o…

An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation

by Jeremy Bentham Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.7
Jeremy Bentham's Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, a classic text in modern philosophy and jurisprudence, first publ…

Tusculan Disputations

by Marcus Tullius Cicero Read by Geoffrey Edwards 3.9
Tusculan Disputations (Latin: TUSCULANARUM DISPUTATIONUM) is divided into five books which discuss death, pain, grief, perturbations and vir…

Who Am I

by Rajanikant Chandwadkar 4.6
Android phone users can now listen to this audiobook on the go without having to download audio files. An app has been developed and is avai…

A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom

by Andrew Dickson White Read by John Greenman 4.8
"In all modern history, interference with science in the supposed interest of religion, no matter how conscientious such interference m…

The Persian Hidden Words

by Bahá'U'Lláh Read by Nicholas James Bridgewater 5
Kalimát-i-Maknúnih (کلمات مکنونه) or The Hidden Words is a book written in Baghdad around 1857 by Bahá'u'lláh, t…

Exotics and Retrospectives

by Lafcadio Hearn Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
Lafcadio Hearn, born 1850 in Greece, went to Japan when he was 40 years old and became a Japanese citizen only 6 years later. His writings a…

Vices are not Crimes

by Lysander Spooner Read by Annise 4.5
In Vices are not Crimes, Lysander Spooner presents a thought-provoking examination of the relationship between individual liberty and govern…

The Ego and His Own

by Max Stirner Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.4
In this book, his most famous, Max Stirner presents a philosophical case for a radical egoism that shuns the socially-oriented outlooks of b…

The Sikh Religion

by Max Arthur Macauliffe Read by Jim Locke 5
This is one of the first (and still one of the few) comprehensive books about the Sikh religion in the English language. Macauliffe had exte…

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