Philosophy

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…

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 …

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…

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 Future of our Educational Institutions

by Friedrich Nietzsche Read by Aaron Rivera 4.2
Nietzsche gives a series of lectures in Bale, Germany on the subject of German educational institutions, and what the best way forward. Sum…

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…

Discovering the Middle Way

by Don Handrick 4.8
Nagarjuna, the great Indian Buddhist philosopher who lived around the second century, composed The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way, con…

Magna Moralia

by Aristotle Read by Geoffrey Edwards 4.3
Magna Moralia, often translated as Great Ethics, is a profound exploration of ethical philosophy attributed to Aristotle, though its authors…

Mother Earth

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
Mother Earth, an American anarchist journal, was self styled as "A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature". Mo…

The Coming of the Fairies

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
After a number of deaths in his close family, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle turned to spiritualism in hope of finding proof of the afterlife. Being…

Sophistical Elenchi

by Aristotle Read by Geoffrey Edwards 4.7
The Sophistical Elenchi is the sixth of Aristotle's six texts on logic which are collectively known as the Organon ("Instrument").…

On the Future of Our Educational Institutions

by Friedrich Nietzsche Read by John Van Stan 5
These are lectures on the education system of Nietzsche's day. He states that "This book is intended for calm readers, for those who ha…

The Vedanta-Sutras

by Bādarāyaṇa and Adi Shankara Read by Jeffrey Allen Stumpf 5
The Vedanta Sutras, or Brahma Sutras as they are also known, is a Sanskrit text attributed to the sage Badarayana (also known as Vyasa) writ…

Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Teachers

by Elbert Hubbard Read by Luke Sartor 4.6
Elbert Hubbard describes the homes of authors, poets, social reformers and other prestigious people, reflecting on how their surroundings ma…

Feeling and Imagination in Art, Science, and Technology

by MIT OpenCourseWare 5
Instructor: Prof. Irving Singer This course is a seminar on creativity in art, science, and technology. We discuss how these pursuits are j…

An Introduction to Metaphysics

by Henri Bergson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
An Introduction to Metaphysics (Introduction a la Metaphysique) is a 1903 essay by Henri Bergson that explores the concept of reality. For B…

Revival of Knowledge of Path to God

by Imam Ghazali 5
AUDIO book of the English translation of 4-volume masterpiece compendium of knowledge, wisdom, gnosis and practical spirituality by Imam Gha…

A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom

by Andrew Dickson White Read by John Greenman 5
The 21st Century, so far, has seen a dramatic and widespread questioning of "Science", much of it from "Evangelicals". B…

An Essay on the Principle of Population

by Thomas Malthus Read by Geoffrey Edwards 4.2
In this foundational work, Thomas Malthus explores the relationship between population growth and resources, presenting a stark view of huma…

The Quintessence of Ibsenism

by George Bernard Shaw Read by Expatriate 4.8
George Bernard Shaw, a playwright with a few bones to pick of his own, undertakes a surgical analysis of the social philosophies underlying …

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