Philosophy

The Subjection of Women

by John Stuart Mill Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
The Subjection of Women is the title of an essay written by John Stuart Mill in 1869, possibly jointly with his wife Harriet Taylor Mill, st…

Apology of Socrates

by Plato Read by Phil Chenevert 4.6
The Apology is Plato's version of the speech given by Socrates as he defended himself in 399 BC[2] against the charges of "corrupting t…

Nature

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Nature is a short essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson published anonymously in 1836. It is in this essay that the foundation of transcendentalism i…

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 …

Utopia

by Thomas More Read by Jenilee 4.4
This book is all about the fictional country called Utopia. It is a country with an ‘ideal’ form of communism, in which everything really do…

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 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…

The Rosicrucian Mysteries

by Max Heindel Read by KirksVoice 4.1
The Rosicrucian Mysteries serves as an insightful introduction to the enigmatic world of the Rosicrucians, a mystical and philosophical soci…

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…

Essays

by Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne is one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance, known for popularising the essay as a literary …

Fear and Trembling

by Soren Kierkegaard Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
"And God tempted Abraham and said unto him: take Isaac, thine only son, whom thou lovest and go to the land Moriah and sacrifice him th…

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 …

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…

Some Problems of Philosophy

by William James Read by P. J. Taylor 4.8
Some Problems of Philosophy presents the thoughts of William James, one of the most influential philosophers of the early 20th century. In t…

Thus Spake Zarathustra

by Friedrich Nietzsche Read by John Van Stan 4
The modern British philosopher, Anthony M. Ludovici, said that this text “is unquestionably Nietzsche’s opus magnum.” However, he warns the …

Essays

by Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne is one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance, known for popularising the essay as a literary …

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…

The Symposium

by Plato Read by Geoffrey Edwards 4.4
The Symposium (Ancient Greek: Συμπόσιον) is a philosophical book written by Plato sometime after 385 BCE. On one level the book deals with t…

Selections from the Principles of Philosophy

by René Descartes Read by Foon 4.7
The Principles of Philosophy, originally published in Latin in 1644, and translated to French in 1647, sets forth the principles of nature--…

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