Philosophy

The Birth of Tragedy

by Friedrich Nietzsche Read by John Van Stan 4.7
This is one of Nietzsche's early academic writings - a scholarly theory about Ancient Greek theatre, specifically tragedies. In a nutshell, …

The Critique of Pure Reason

by Immanuel Kant Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
The Critique of Pure Reason, first published in 1781 with a second edition in 1787, has been called the most influential and important philo…

The Basis Of Morality

by Arthur Schopenhauer Read by Jeffrey Allen Stumpf 4.9
In 1837, the Danish Royal Society of Sciences offered a prize to any essayist who could satisfactorily answer the question, "Is the fou…

Critias

by Plato Read by Kevin Johnson 4.5
This is an incomplete dialogue from the late period of Plato's life. Plato most likely created it after Republic and it contains the famous …

The Prince

by Niccolò Machiavelli Read by Bob Neufeld 4.8
The Prince (Italian: Il Principe) is a political treatise by the Italian diplomat, historian and political theorist Niccolò Machiavel…

A Treatise Of Human Nature

by David Hume Read by George Yeager 4.5
This book, published in two volumes called "books" by the author, is a treatment of everything from the origin of our ideas to how…

Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One’s Reason and of Seeking Truth

by René Descartes Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
The Discourse on Method is best known as the source of the famous quotation “cogito ergo sum”, “I think, therefore I am.” …. It is a method …

Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy

by Bertrand Russell Read by Landon D. C. Elkind 4.5
Bertrand Russell wrote 'Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy' while imprisoned for protesting Britain's involvement in World War I. Russe…

Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia

by Samuel Johnson Read by Martin Geeson 4.3
In this enchanting fable (subtitled The Choice of Life), Rasselas and his retinue burrow their way out of the totalitarian paradise of the H…

The Lifted Veil

by George Eliot Read by Bruce Pirie 4.5
The Lifted Veil is a thought-provoking novella by George Eliot that delves into the realms of the supernatural and the unknown. Set against …

The Lives of the Ancient Philosophers

by François Fénelon Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
François Fénelon became a priest in 1675, Archbishop of Paris in 1679, was spiritual advisor to Madame Guyon, and was appointe…

The Problems of Philosophy

by Bertrand Russell Read by Landon D. C. Elkind 4.6
This 1912 book remains among the most widely-used and well-written introductions to philosophy in English. It was aimed to be an accessible …

The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

by Patanjali Read by Jothi Tharavant 4.6
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali are in themselves exceedingly brief, less than ten pages of large type in the original. Yet they contain the es…

Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

by Patanjali Read by Maggie Russell 4.7
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali is a foundational text of yoga philosophy, offering profound insights into the nature of the mind, consciousnes…

The New Organon

by Francis Bacon Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
The Novum Organum is a philosophical work by Francis Bacon published in 1620. The title translates as "new instrument". This is a …

An Essay on Man

by Alexander Pope Read by Martin Geeson 4.7
Pope’s Essay on Man, a masterpiece of concise summary in itself, can fairly be summed up as an optimistic enquiry into mankind’s place in th…

Reflections on War and Death

by Sigmund Freud Read by D.E. Wittkower 4.5
Anyone, as Freud tells us in Reflections on War and Death, forced to react against his own impulses may be described as a hypocrite, whether…

The Philosophy of Immanuel Kant

by Alexander Dunlop Lindsay Read by A. Bryan Johnson 4.6
Born in Scotland, Alexander Dunlop Lindsay was a teacher of philosophy at a number of universities in England in the early 1900s. This brief…

Gorgias

by Plato Read by Kevin Johnson 4.6
This dialogue brings Socrates face to face with the famous sophist Gorgias and his followers. It is a work likely completed around the time …

The Age of Reason

by Thomas Paine Read by JoeD 4.7
The Age of Reason; Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology is a pamphlet, written by a British and American revolutionary Thoma…

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