Philosophy

Brhadaranyaka Upanishad

by Swami Guruparananda 4
This is a vast Upanishad. All the Upanishadic ideas are dealt with in detail in this Upanishad. Shankaracharya's commentary for this Upanish…

The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

by Patanjali Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Yoga sutras by Patanjali is a seminal work in yoga, this book is more about control of mind and the true goal of yoga. The sutras are extre…

Wisdom of Emptiness

by Emily Hsu
In this second of a multi-term course on the subject of Special Insight, we will explore the view of emptiness in depth according to Lama Ts…

Confucian Analects

by Confucius ?? Read by Jing Li 4.6
The Analects, or Lunyu (simplified Chinese: 论语; traditional Chinese: 論語; pinyin: Lún Yǔ; literally "Classified/Ordered Sayings&q…

The ID Files

by Jason Rennie Read by Jason Rennie 3
The ID Files is a compilation of interviews about the recent Intelligent Design Controversy taken from The Sci Phi Show (http://thesciphisho…

The Posthumous Essays of John Churton Collins

by John Churton Collins Read by LibriVox Volunteers
The Posthumous Essays of John Churton Collins offers a thoughtful exploration of the lives and works of notable English and German authors, …

The Philosophy of Gender In Islam

by Shaykh Imran Hosein 5
If God is a man, thatâs bad news for women â because masculinity would then be divine â and hence only the male would have…

Gravenhurst

by William Henry Smith Read by LibriVox Volunteers
In which an English country gentlemen records his and his friends' conversational observations on misery and happiness, leaning ultimately o…

On the Laws

by Marcus Tullius Cicero Read by Geoffrey Edwards 3.5
On the Laws (Latin: De Legibus) was written shortly after Cicero's "On the Commonwealth" during the last years of the Roman Republ…

The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean

by Confucius ??, Zengzi 子輿 and Zisi 子思 Read by Geoffrey Edwards 1
The Great Learning (Traditional Chinese: 大學, Simplified: 大学, Pinyin: Dàxué, Korean: 대학, Japanese: 大学, Vietnamese: Đại Học) is …

The Ethics of Belief

by William Kingdon Clifford Read by LibriVox Volunteers 2.6
The Ethics of Belief is a seminal essay by philosopher William Kingdon Clifford that explores the moral implications of belief and the respo…

Categories

by Aristotle Read by Geoffrey Edwards 3.3
Categories (Lat. Categoriae, Greek Κατηγορίαι Katēgoriai) is the first of Aristotle's six texts on logic which are collectively known as the…

Nibbana The Mind Stilled

by Ranjith Daluwatta
Nibbāna-The Mind Stilled   is the translation of a series of 33 sermons titled  Nivane Niveema  ( Sinhala : නිවනේ නිවීම), del…

Hastamalakiyam

by Swami Guruparananda
This text is written by Hastamalaka, a disciple of Shankaracharya and explains the central theme of the Upanishads, in twelve verses. The 5 …

Metaphysics

by Aristotle Read by Geoffrey Edwards 3.4
Metaphysics by Aristotle delves into the fundamental nature of reality, exploring concepts such as substance, causation, and the existence o…

The Use and Abuse of History

by Friedrich Nietzsche Read by Public Domain Scholar 1
“Whoever asks his friends whether they would live the last ten or twenty years over again, will easily see which of them is born for the ‘su…

The Birth of Tragedy

by Friedrich Nietzsche Read by Jim Locke 2.9
In this famous early work of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, he investigates the artistic characteristics of Apollonian (reason) and…

Of the Shortness of Life

by Lucius Annaeus Seneca Read by Jonathan Hockey 3.5
Seneca the Younger wrote the moral essay "De Brevitate Vitae" — "On the Shortness of Life" — to his friend Paulinus. The…

An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding

by John Locke Read by LibriVox Volunteers 2.2
John Locke's essays on human understanding answers the question “What gives rise to ideas in our minds?”. In the first book Locke refutes th…

Bhagavad Gita

Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.2
The content of the text is a conversation between Krishna and Arjuna taking place on the battlefield of Kurukshetra just prior to the start …

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