Philosophy

Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous

by George Berkeley Read by Geoffrey Edwards 4.7
Berkeley uses Hylas as his primary contemporary philosophical adversary, John Locke. A Hylas is featured in Greek mythology and the name Hyl…

A Modern Utopia

by H. G. Wells Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
H. G. Wells's proposal for social reform was the formation of a world state, a concept that would increasingly preoccupy him throughout the …

The Life of the Spirit and the Life of Today

by Evelyn Underhill Read by Mary Reagan 4.2
Underhill emphasizes the practical, here-and-now nature of spiritual life. She argues that spirituality is a genuine and abiding human fact,…

The Arabic Hidden Words

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

The Phenomenology of Mind

by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.3
Phänomenologie des Geistes (1807) is Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's most important and widely discussed philosophical work. Hegel's fi…

Summa Theologica

by Saint Thomas Aquinas Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
The Summa Theologica (or the Summa Theologiae or simply the Summa, written 1265–1274) is the most famous work of Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–127…

Common Sense

by Yoritomo Tashi Read by Thomas Rose 4.6
One of three seminal philosophical works by the twelfth century Japanese Shogun, Yoritomo-Tashi. (From the Preface) He knows how to clothe…

Human Sacrifice

by John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton Read by Jeff Allen 5
This was one of Lord Acton's essays, that was in response to the publication of the letters between Sir Robert Peel and Lord Macaulay. Lord…

Lectures on Landscape

by John Ruskin Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
Lectures on Landscape presents a thought-provoking exploration of landscape painting through the eyes of John Ruskin, a prominent artist and…

Summa Theologica

by Saint Thomas Aquinas Read by M.S.C. Lambert, LC 5
The Summa Theologica (or the Summa Theologiae or simply the Summa, written 1265–1274) is the most famous work of Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–127…

Short Nonfiction Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the re…

Summa Theologica

by Saint Thomas Aquinas Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
The Summa Theologica (or the Summa Theologiae or simply the Summa, written 1265–1274) is the most famous work of Thomas Aquinas although it …

The Symposium

by Plato Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
In one of Plato's more accessible works, Apollodorus tells a friend about a drinking party (or symposium) attended by many of intellectuals …

The Convivio

by Dante Alighieri Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
Convivio (The Banquet) is a work written by Dante Alighieri roughly between 1304 and 1307. This unfinished work of Dante consists of four tr…

Short Nonfiction Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
A collection of fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches, news items and reports included in this collectio…

Good Sense

by Baron Paul Henri Thiry D' Holbach and Paul Henri Thiry, Baron D'Holbach Read by Roger Melin 4.2
Good Sense is an essential work by Baron Paul Henri Thiry D'Holbach that distills the core ideas of his earlier masterpiece, Systeme de la N…

Euthydemus

by Plato Read by Geoffrey Edwards 4.5
Euthydemus is a thought-provoking dialogue by Plato that delves into the art of argumentation and the nature of wisdom. In this engaging exc…

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…

Bacon

by Richard William Church Read by Bill Boerst 4.3
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…

A Defence of Idealism

by May Sinclair Read by Expatriate 4.9
The philosophy of Idealism, revived in eighteenth-century Europe by George Berkeley, argued against philosophical materialism by maintaining…

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