29 Best Philosophy Books
Philosophy is a popular category for many book lovers. Our team at Speechify has curated a list of the top Philosophy audiobooks everyone must read.
See the top 29 Philosophy audiobooks below.
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One Long River of Song
- By: Brian Doyle
- Narrator: George Newbern
- Length: 7 hours 23 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: August 18, 2020
- Language: English
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4.64(1372 ratings)
4.64(1372 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0025.98 USDA playful and moving book of essays by a “born storyteller” (Seattle Times) who invites us into the miraculous and transcendent moments of the everyday When Brian Doyle passed away at the age of sixty after a bout with brain cancer, heA playful and moving book of essays by a “born storyteller” (Seattle Times) who invites us into the miraculous and transcendent moments of the everydayWhen Brian Doyle passed away at the age of sixty after a bout with brain cancer, he left behind a cult-like following of devoted readers who regard his writing as one of the best-kept secrets of the twenty-first century. Doyle writes with a delightful sense of wonder about the sanctity of everyday things, and about love and connection in all their forms: spiritual love, brotherly love, romantic love, and even the love of a nine-foot sturgeon.At a moment when the world can sometimes feel darker than ever, Doyle’s writing, which constantly evokes the humor and even bliss that life affords, is a balm. His essays manage to find, again and again, exquisite beauty in the quotidian, whether it’s the awe of a child the first time she hears a river, or a husband’s whiskers that a grieving widow misses seeing in her sink every morning. Through Doyle’s eyes, nothing is dull.David James Duncan sums up Doyle’s sensibilities best in his introduction to the collection: “Brian Doyle lived the pleasure of bearing daily witness to quiet glories hidden in people, places and creatures of little or no size, renown, or commercial value, and he brought inimitably playful or soaring or aching or heartfelt language to his tellings.” A life’s work, One Long River of Song invites readers to experience joy and wonder in ordinary moments that become, under Doyle’s rapturous and exuberant gaze, extraordinary.... Read more -
More Charles Kuralt’s American Moments
- By: Charles Kuralt
- Narrator: Charles Kuralt
- Length: 1 hours 7 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 1999
- Language: English
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4.6(5 ratings)
4.6(5 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.007.95 USDMore Charles Kuralt’s American Moments takes us on a wonderful, joyous exploration of Americana with this second volume of never-before-available spoken-word accounts of what makes the United States so special. An American Moment with CharlesMore Charles Kuralt’s American Moments takes us on a wonderful, joyous exploration of Americana with this second volume of never-before-available spoken-word accounts of what makes the United States so special.
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An American Moment with Charles Kuralt — a timeless series of television essays about uniquely American people, places, and ideas — was Kuralt’s last project before his death on Independence Day, 1997. In this rare and special recording, Kuralt visits: Noah Webster’s House, the makers of the red, white and blue barber’s pole, a hospital for eagles, the sequoia forest, the road less traveled, and more.
A remarkable collection of pieces that remind us of Charles Kuralt’s unmatched ability to capture the extraordinary aspects of ordinary lives, More Charles Kuralt’s American Moments warms the heart and touches the soul. -
God of All Things
- By: Andrew Wilson
- Narrator: Andrew Wilson
- Length: 5 hours 29 minutes
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publish date: March 02, 2021
- Language: English
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4.59(573 ratings)
4.59(573 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USDAbstract theology is overrated, for God can be found in even the most ordinary of things. Jesus used things like a lily, sparrow, and sheep to teach about the kingdom of God. And in the Old Testament, God repeatedly describes himself and his savingAbstract theology is overrated, for God can be found in even the most ordinary of things.
Jesus used things like a lily, sparrow, and sheep to teach about the kingdom of God. And in the Old Testament, God repeatedly describes himself and his saving work in relation to physical things such as a rock, horn, or eagle.
In God of All Things, pastor and author Andrew Wilson invites you to rediscover God in this way, too–through ordinary, everyday things. He explores the idea of a material world and presents a variety of created marvels that reveal the gospel in everyday life and fuel worship and joy in God–marvels like:
- Dust: the image of God
- Horns: the salvation of God
- Donkeys: the peace of God
- Water: the life of God
- Viruses: the problem of God
- Cities: the kingdom of God
God of All Things will leave you with a deeper understanding of Scripture, the world you live in, and the God who made it all.
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The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
- By: Charlie Mackesy
- Narrator: Charlie Mackesy
- Length: 58 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: November 12, 2020
- Language: English
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4.57(116074 ratings)
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4.57(116074 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0011.99 USDCharlie Mackesy’s beloved The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse has been adapted into an animated short film, now available to stream on Apple TV+ “A surprise bestseller about kindness and vulnerability is bringing peopleCharlie Mackesy’s beloved The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse has been adapted into an animated short film, now available to stream on Apple TV+
“A surprise bestseller about kindness and vulnerability is bringing people together.” – Washington Post
“What do you want to be when you grow up?” asked the mole.
“Kind,” said the boy.
Charlie Mackesy offers inspiration and hope in uncertain times in this beautiful audiobook, following the tale of a curious boy, a greedy mole, a wary fox and a wise horse who find themselves together in sometimes difficult terrain, sharing their greatest fears and biggest discoveries about vulnerability, kindness, hope, friendship and love. The shared adventures and important conversations between the four friends are full of life lessons that have connected with readers of all ages.
“Charlie Mackesy’s mesmerizing debut combines the simplicity of “The Giving Tree”, magic of “The Velveteen Rabbit” and the curiosity of “Paddington” – Elisabeth Egan, New York Times
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How We Can Build a Better World: The Worldshift Manual
- By: Ervin Laszlo
- Narrator: Tom Force
- Length: 3 hours 18 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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4.56(8 ratings)
4.56(8 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.95 USDWe are in the midst of a global crisis. This is not just danger: it is opportunity–a golden opportunity. It is the opportunity to build a new world. To sit with folded hands, waiting for the crisis to take its course is to entrust our destinyWe are in the midst of a global crisis. This is not just danger: it is opportunity–a golden opportunity. It is the opportunity to build a new world.
To sit with folded hands, waiting for the crisis to take its course is to entrust our destiny to the vagaries of fortune. To go back to where we were is not advisable, and may not even be possible. But attempting to go forward makes sense: it is a realistic objective. The outcome of the crisis is not foreclosed; it is sensitive to our perceptions, values, and aspirations. If we wake up and act, the global crisis will prove to be a blessing in disguise. We have to cope with its dangers, but can and must seize the opportunity it offers. It is the opportunity to liberate ourselves from the shackles of the past and build a better world.
How We Can Build a Better World is a practical guide for building a better world. This is a realistic objective because, with the awakening catalyzed by the global crisis, we can now change the world. This manual shows how we can change it effectively, and for the better.
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Why Is There Suffering?
- By: Bethany N. Sollereder
- Narrator: Bethany N. Sollereder
- Length: 3 hours 59 minutes
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publish date: November 02, 2021
- Language: English
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4.53(16 ratings)
4.53(16 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0018.99 USDTake a Unique Adventure as You Explore Questions about God, Suffering, Evil, Pain, and Final Destiny Be engaged, enlightened, and surprised by this unique book on suffering that gives control to you. Similar to novels that allow you to choose yourTake a Unique Adventure as You Explore Questions about God, Suffering, Evil, Pain, and Final Destiny
Be engaged, enlightened, and surprised by this unique book on suffering that gives control to you. Similar to novels that allow you to choose your own “path,” Why Is There Suffering? by Bethany Sollereder invites you to make choices that lead you on an exploration of theological possibilities about topics like:
- God’s existence
- God’s nature
- The nature of suffering
- Evil
- Pain
- The final destiny of humans and animals
You will face multiple possibilities regarding suffering and its theological explanations and have to make choices about which one you find most plausible. Each decision will lead to further complexities and new choices, helping you see how theological choices lead to certain conclusions. This book does not offer final answers. Instead, it introduces the “theological” possibilities, both Christian and non-Christian, that you can explore and wrestle with so you can make informed decisions about your beliefs.
Taking an intentionally light-hearted approach to a heavy topic this accessible and winsome book presents an unusually helpful introduction to the problem of suffering and the most commonly offered responses to it.
Suggestions for further reading, appendixes, and accompanying images are available in the audiobook companion PDF download.
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The Coronation
- By: Charles Eisenstein
- Narrator: Charles Eisenstein
- Length: 5 hours 53 minutes
- Publisher: Chelsea Green
- Publish date: July 28, 2022
- Language: English
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4.52(25 ratings)
4.52(25 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDRenowned public speaker, bestselling author, social critic, and activist Charles Eisenstein offers a way forward from our present moment through a series of unforgettable essays that give us a new model of sense-making. Through a series of piercingRenowned public speaker, bestselling author, social critic, and activist Charles Eisenstein offers a way forward from our present moment through a series of unforgettable essays that give us a new model of sense-making. Through a series of piercing essays, The Coronation takes listeners through the initiation of the Covid era?exploring topics like despair, hope, courage, division, and reunion?in this stunning collection. Paired with each essay is the author’s commentary locating the essay in a social, political, and spiritual journey. After all, it wasn’t only outward normality that the pandemic disrupted. Of all the social crises that COVID-19 has revealed, The Coronation addresses the most profound: the crisis in our sense-making. An old reality has disintegrated. This book reveals just how deep that breakdown is. Acknowledging it, we might build something more sound, more whole, and more sane. Underneath the shifting sands of the arguments and narratives, something else calls to us: the possibility of renewal, a revolution in the agreements and myths that organize society. *Individually, these essays have been read, shared, and discussed by tens of thousands of people around the globe, but they are collected together here for the first time!
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Witness
- By: Ariel Burger
- Narrator: Jason Culp
- Length: 8 hours 1 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
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4.5(708 ratings)
4.5(708 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDIn the vein of Tuesdays with Morrie, a devoted protege and friend of one of the world’s great thinkers takes us into the sacred space of the classroom, showing Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel not only as anIn the vein of Tuesdays with Morrie, a devoted protege and friend of one of the world’s great thinkers takes us into the sacred space of the classroom, showing Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel not only as an extraordinary human being, but as a master teacher.
The world remembers Elie Wiesel–Nobel laureate, activist, and author of more than forty books, including Oprah’s Book Club selection Night–as a great humanist. He passed away in July 2016.
Ariel Burger first met Elie Wiesel at age fifteen. They studied together and taught together. Witness chronicles the intimate conversations between these two men over decades, as Burger sought counsel on matters of intellect, spirituality, and faith, while navigating his own personal journey from boyhood to manhood, from student and assistant to rabbi and, in time, teacher.
In this profoundly hopeful, thought-provoking, and inspiring book, Burger takes us into Elie Wiesel’s classroom, where the art of listening and storytelling conspire to keep memory alive. As Wiesel’s teaching assistant, Burger gives us a front-row seat witnessing these remarkable exchanges in and out of the classroom. The act of listening, of sharing these stories, makes of us, the listeners, witnesses.
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Renewing the Christian Mind
- By: Dallas Willard
- Narrator: Alan Winter
- Length: 19 hours 43 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: July 12, 2016
- Language: English
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4.5(105 ratings)
4.5(105 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.004.99 USDFrom Dallas Willard, one of the most important Christian intellectuals of the twentieth century, comes a collection of readings, interviews, talks, and articles–many previously unpublished. In his groundbreaking books The Divine Conspiracy,From Dallas Willard, one of the most important Christian intellectuals of the twentieth century, comes a collection of readings, interviews, talks, and articles–many previously unpublished.
In his groundbreaking books The Divine Conspiracy, The Great Omission, Knowing Christ Today, Hearing God, The Spirit of the Disciplines, The Divine Conspiracy Continued, and The Allure of Gentleness, teacher, philosopher, and spiritual guide Dallas Willard forever changed the way many Christians experience their faith. Three years after his death, the influence of this provocative Christian thinker–“a man devoted to reestablishing the exalted place moral reasoning once held in the academy” (Christianity Today) remains strong.
Compiled, edited, and introduced by his friend and fellow theologian, Gary Black, Jr., Renewing the Christian Mind is a collection of essays, interviews, and articles that brilliantly encapsulate Willard’s spiritual philosophy and his contributions to theology.
Renewing the Christian Mind offers insight into spiritual formation, avocation, and theology, and includes sections directed at specific audiences, from church leaders to laypeople looking for spiritual counsel and nurture. Reasoned, honest, thought- provoking, and illuminating, this important anthology is an invaluable introduction and companion to Dallas Willard’s acclaimed body of work.
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Contemporary Theology: An Introduction, Revised Edition
- By: Kirk R. MacGregor
- Narrator: Kirk R. MacGregor
- Length: 16 hours 28 minutes
- Publisher: Zondervan Academic
- Publish date: June 22, 2021
- Language: English
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4.5(2 ratings)
4.5(2 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0038.99 USDAccessible and comprehensive, Contemporary Theology: An Introduction by professor and author Kirk R. MacGregor provides a chronological survey of the major thinkers and schools of thought in modern theology in a manner that is both approachable andAccessible and comprehensive, Contemporary Theology: An Introduction by professor and author Kirk R. MacGregor provides a chronological survey of the major thinkers and schools of thought in modern theology in a manner that is both approachable and intriguing.
Unique among introductions to contemporary theology, MacGregor includes:
- Evangelical perspectives alongside mainline and liberal developments
- The influence of philosophy and the recent Christian philosophical renaissance on theology
- Global contributions
- Recent developments in exegetical theology
- The implications of theological shifts on ethics and church life
Contemporary Theology: An Introduction is noteworthy for making complex thought understandable and for tracing the landscape of modern theology in a well-organized and easy-to-follow manner.
Bibliography available in the audiobook companion PDF download.
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The Five Invitations
- By: Frank Ostaseski
- Narrator: Frank Ostaseski
- Length: 12 hours 16 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: March 14, 2017
- Language: English
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4.47(2115 ratings)
4.47(2115 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USDThe cofounder of the Zen Hospice Project and pioneer behind the compassionate care movement shares an inspiring exploration of the lessons dying has to offer about living a fulfilling life.Death is not waiting for us at the end of a long road. DeathThe cofounder of the Zen Hospice Project and pioneer behind the compassionate care movement shares an inspiring exploration of the lessons dying has to offer about living a fulfilling life.
Death is not waiting for us at the end of a long road. Death is always with us, in the marrow of every passing moment. She is the secret teacher hiding in plain sight, helping us to discover what matters most.Life and death are a package deal. They cannot be pulled apart and we cannot truly live unless we are aware of death. The Five Invitations is an exhilarating meditation on the meaning of life and how maintaining an ever-present consciousness of death can bring us closer to our truest selves. As a renowned teacher of compassionate caregiving and the cofounder of the Zen Hospice Project, Frank Ostaseski has sat on the precipice of death with more than a thousand people. In The Five Invitations, he distills the lessons gleaned over the course of his career, offering an evocative and stirring guide that points to a radical path to transformation.
The Five Invitations:
-Don’t Wait
-Welcome Everything, Push Away Nothing
-Bring Your Whole Self to the Experience
-Find a Place of Rest in the Middle of Things
-Cultivate Don’t Know MindThese Five Invitations show us how to wake up fully to our lives. They can be understood as best practices for anyone coping with loss or navigating any sort of transition or crisis; they guide us toward appreciating life’s preciousness. Awareness of death can be a valuable companion on the road to living well, forging a rich and meaningful life, and letting go of regret. The Five Invitations is a powerful and inspiring exploration of the essential wisdom dying has to impart to all of us.
This program is read by the author.
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This Beauty
- By: Nick Riggle
- Narrator: Nick Riggle
- Length: 4 hours 27 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.39(38 ratings)
4.39(38 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.95 USDAn acclaimed philosopher and new father argues that engaging with beauty can make life worth living You didn’t choose to live this life, in this body, in these conditions–this delicate and difficult life. Yet when you consider that yourAn acclaimed philosopher and new father argues that engaging with beauty can make life worth living
You didn’t choose to live this life, in this body, in these conditions–this delicate and difficult life. Yet when you consider that your existence is fleeting, an inspired sense of urgency can spring forth. Say you often hike with a friend. One day, they propose that you skydive instead. You’re wavering, and they insist: Come on. You only live once! And soon you’re flying through the air. Why embrace a life you did not choose?
In This Beauty, philosopher Nick Riggle explores the beauty of being alive by investigating the things we say to inspire ourselves and each other: seize the day, treat yourself, you only live once. These cliches are at best vague, at worst stupid. They imply that you should do something wild with your life because your life is precious, a little like saying you should go swimming with your grandfather’s watch because it is irreplaceable.
Drawing on insights from aesthetics and his experiences as a professional skater and new father, Riggle shows us how we can understand the idea that life is beautiful enough to bear repeating. Insightful and deeply humane, This Beauty offers a personal and searching inquiry into the mystery of life’s beauty.
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The Practicing Stoic
- By: Ward Farnsworth
- Narrator: John Lescault
- Length: 9 hours 57 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
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4.35(2550 ratings)
4.35(2550 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDThe great insights of the Stoics are spread over a wide range of ancient sources. This book brings them all together for the first time. It systematically presents what the various Stoic philosophers said on every important topic, accompanied by anThe great insights of the Stoics are spread over a wide range of ancient sources. This book brings them all together for the first time. It systematically presents what the various Stoic philosophers said on every important topic, accompanied by an eloquent commentary that is clear and concise. The result is a set of philosophy lessons for everyone–the most valuable wisdom of ages past made available for our times, and for all time.
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Morality
- By: Jonathan Sacks
- Narrator: Jonathan Sacks
- Length: 14 hours 4 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: September 01, 2020
- Language: English
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4.35(706 ratings)
4.35(706 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0025.98 USDA distinguished religious leader’s stirring case for reconstructing a shared framework of virtues and values. With liberal democracy embattled, public discourse grown toxic, family life breaking down, and drug abuse and depression on theA distinguished religious leader’s stirring case for reconstructing a shared framework of virtues and values.
With liberal democracy embattled, public discourse grown toxic, family life breaking down, and drug abuse and depression on the rise, many fear what the future holds.
In Morality, respected faith leader and public intellectual Jonathan Sacks traces today’s crisis to our loss of a strong, shared moral code and our elevation of self-interest over the common good. We have outsourced morality to the market and the state, but neither is capable of showing us how to live. Sacks leads readers from ancient Greece to the Enlightenment to the present day to show that there is no liberty without morality and no freedom without responsibility, arguing that we all must play our part in rebuilding a common moral foundation.
A major work of moral philosophy, Morality is an inspiring vision of a world in which we can all find our place and face the future without fear.
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National Geographic Kids Chapters: Parrot Genius
- By: Moira Rose Donohue
- Narrator: Moira Rose Donohue
- Length: 1 hours 5 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: November 25, 2016
- Language: English
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4.34(19 ratings)
4.34(19 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.008.99 USDA pig that does math tricks. A parrot that seems to know what she’s saying. A flying pig … um, pug. These animals know what it means to be in the spotlight. Meet Mudslinger the superstar pig, Einstein the parrot genius, and Otis theA pig that does math tricks. A parrot that seems to know what she’s saying. A flying pig … um, pug. These animals know what it means to be in the spotlight. Meet Mudslinger the superstar pig, Einstein the parrot genius, and Otis the skydiving dog. Read the stories of these three amazing animal superstars in Parrot Genius
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The Theater of War
- By: Bryan Doerries
- Narrator: Adam Driver
- Length: 5 hours 49 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2015
- Language: English
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4.32(714 ratings)
4.32(714 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDThis compassionate, personal, and illuminating work of nonfiction draws on the author’s celebrated work as a director of socially conscious theater to connect listeners with the power of an ancient artistic tradition. For years, Bryan DoerriesThis compassionate, personal, and illuminating work of nonfiction draws on the author’s celebrated work as a director of socially conscious theater to connect listeners with the power of an ancient artistic tradition.
For years, Bryan Doerries has been producing ancient tragedies for current and returned servicemen and women, addicts, tornado and hurricane victims, and a wide range of other at-risk people in society. Here, drawing on these extraordinary firsthand experiences, Doerries clearly and powerfully illustrates the redemptive and therapeutic potential of this classical, timeless art: how, for example, Ajax can help soldiers and their loved ones grapple with PTSD, or how Prometheus Bound provides insights into the modern penal system. Doerries is an original and magnanimous thinker, and The Theater of War–wholly unsentimental but intensely felt and emotionally engaging–is a humane, knowledgeable, and accessible book that will inspire and inform listeners, showing them that suffering and healing are both part of a timeless process.
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The Machiavellians
- By: James Burnham
- Narrator: Jeff Riggenbach
- Length: 9 hours 11 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2009
- Language: English
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4.32(919 ratings)
4.32(919 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDThis classic work of political theory and practice offers an account of the modern Machiavellians, a remarkable group who have been influential in Europe and practically unknown in the United States. The book devotes a long section to MachiavelliThis classic work of political theory and practice offers an account of the modern Machiavellians, a remarkable group who have been influential in Europe and practically unknown in the United States. The book devotes a long section to Machiavelli himself as well as to such modern Machiavellians as Gaetano Mosca, Georges Sorel, Robert Michels and Vilfredo Pareto. Burnham contends that the writings of these men hold the key both to the truth about politics and to the preservation of political liberty.
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The DIM Hypothesis
- By: Leonard Peikoff
- Narrator: Robin Field
- Length: 17 hours 35 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2014
- Language: English
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4.32(290 ratings)
4.32(290 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.95 USDIn his groundbreaking and controversial book The DIM Hypothesis, Dr. Leonard Peikoff casts a penetrating new light on the process of human thought and thereby on Western culture and history. In this far-reaching study, Peikoff identifies the threeIn his groundbreaking and controversial book The DIM Hypothesis, Dr. Leonard Peikoff casts a penetrating new light on the process of human thought and thereby on Western culture and history.
In this far-reaching study, Peikoff identifies the three methods people use to integrate concrete data into a whole, as when connecting diverse experiments by a scientific theory, separate laws into a constitution, or single events into a story. The first method, in which data is integrated through rational means, he calls Integration. The second, which employs nonrational means, he calls Misintegration. The third is Disintegration–which is nihilism, the desire to tear things apart.
In The DIM Hypothesis Peikoff demonstrates the power of these three methods in shaping the West by using the categories to examine the culturally representative fields of literature, physics, education, and politics. His analysis illustrates how the historical trends in each field have been dominated by one of these three categories, not only today but during the whole progression of Western culture from its beginning in ancient Greece.
Extrapolating from the historical pattern he identifies, Peikoff concludes by explaining why the lights of the West are going out–and predicts the most likely future for the United States.
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The Divine Feminine Tao Te Ching
- By: Rosemarie Anderson
- Narrator: Robin Douglas
- Length: 1 hours 59 minutes
- Publisher: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.3(23 ratings)
4.3(23 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USD* Restores the feminine essence of the Tao Te Ching as well as the simplicity and poetic undertones of the chapters * Offers commentary for each of the 81 chapters and key Chinese characters to reveal their profound wisdom * Translated from ancient* Restores the feminine essence of the Tao Te Ching as well as the simplicity and poetic undertones of the chapters
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* Offers commentary for each of the 81 chapters and key Chinese characters to reveal their profound wisdom
* Translated from ancient silk and bamboo slip manuscripts, the oldest known copies of the Tao Te Ching
* Paper with French flaps
In this book, Rosemarie Anderson shares her discoveries of the Divine Feminine Tao alongside her original translation of the Tao Te Ching. Working from ancient silk and bamboo slip manuscripts, the oldest known copies of the Tao Te Ching, the author slowly translated all 81 chapters over the course of two years, allowing each section to reveal its intimate poetic and spiritual nature. To her surprise, she discovered that the Tao was unmistakably feminine, consistently referred to as “mother,” “virgin,” and the “womb” of creation.
Anderson explains how the Tao is a feminine force, the Dark Womb of Creation, the Immortal Void renewing life again and again in ordinary times and in times of crisis. She offers commentary for each of the 81 chapters to help reveal their profound wisdom. The author also restores the chapters’ simplicity and musical undertones, explaining how, in the original Chinese manuscripts, the text is poetic and rhymed because the Tao Te Ching was often recited or sung–yet most English translations are written in scholarly prose with long sentences and complex syntax. She shows how the great Tao’s message of wei wu wei–“act without acting” and “do without doing”–offers a path of peace and well-being for ourselves and for our relationships with others and the earth, a path that arises from spontaneous action that seeks no gain for the self.
Capturing the original feminine nature of this ancient text, Anderson’s translation sheds new light on the esoteric wisdom contained within the Tao Te Ching and on the mystical feminine essence of the Tao. -
Reflections
- By: Walter Benjamin
- Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 15 hours 12 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.3(10571 ratings)
4.3(10571 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.95 USDA companion volume to Illuminations, the first collection of Walter Benjamin’s writings, Reflections presents a further sampling of his wide-ranging work. Here Benjamin evolves a theory of language as the medium of all creation, discussesA companion volume to Illuminations, the first collection of Walter Benjamin’s writings, Reflections presents a further sampling of his wide-ranging work. Here Benjamin evolves a theory of language as the medium of all creation, discusses theater and surrealism, reminisces about Berlin in the 1920s, recalls conversations with Bertolt Brecht, and provides travelogues of various cities, including Moscow under Stalin.
Benjamin moves seamlessly from literary criticism to autobiography to philosophical-theological speculations, cementing his reputation as one of the greatest and most versatile writers of the twentieth century.
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Illuminations
- By: Walter Benjamin
- Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 10 hours 12 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.3(10571 ratings)
4.3(10571 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDWalter Benjamin was an icon of criticism, renowned for his insight on art, literature, and philosophy. This volume includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays onWalter Benjamin was an icon of criticism, renowned for his insight on art, literature, and philosophy. This volume includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays on Leskov and Brecht’s epic theater. Illuminations also includes his penetrating study “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” an enlightening discussion of translation as a literary mode, and his theses on the philosophy of history.
Hannah Arendt selected the essays for this volume and introduces them with a classic essay about Benjamin’s life in a dark historical era. Leon Wieseltier’s preface explores Benjamin’s continued relevance for our times.
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To Shape a New World
- By: Tommie Shelby
- Narrator: Kevin Kenerly
- Length: 16 hours 25 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
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4.29(37 ratings)
4.29(37 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.95 USDMartin Luther King Jr. may be America’s most revered political figure, commemorated in statues, celebrations, and street names around the world. On the fiftieth anniversary of King’s assassination, the man and his activism are as closeMartin Luther King Jr. may be America’s most revered political figure, commemorated in statues, celebrations, and street names around the world. On the fiftieth anniversary of King’s assassination, the man and his activism are as close to public consciousness as ever. But despite his stature, the significance of King’s writings and political thought remains underappreciated.
In To Shape a New World, Tommie Shelby and Brandon Terry write that the marginalization of King’s ideas reflects a romantic, consensus history that renders the civil rights movement inherently conservative–an effort not at radical reform but at “living up to” enduring ideals laid down by the nation’s founders. On this view, King marshaled lofty rhetoric to help redeem the ideas of universal (white) heroes, but produced little original thought. This failure to engage deeply and honestly with King’s writings allows him to be conscripted into political projects he would not endorse, including the pernicious form of “color blindness” that insists, amid glaring race-based injustice, that racism has been overcome.
Cornel West, Danielle Allen, Martha Nussbaum, Robert Gooding-Williams, and other authors join Shelby and Terry in careful, critical engagement with King’s understudied writings on labor and welfare rights, voting rights, racism, civil disobedience, nonviolence, economic inequality, poverty, love, just-war theory, virtue ethics, political theology, imperialism, nationalism, reparations, and social justice. In King’s exciting and learned work, the authors find an array of compelling challenges to some of the most pressing political dilemmas of our present, and rethink the legacy of this towering figure.
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Doing the Right Thing
- By: Scientific American
- Narrator: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 5 hours 33 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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4.29(5 ratings)
4.29(5 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDMaking ethical decisions involves more than listening to an inner moral compass, a feeling in the gut of what’s right and wrong. Questions of ethics in science are becoming increasingly complex, especially as technology encroaches upon evenMaking ethical decisions involves more than listening to an inner moral compass, a feeling in the gut of what’s right and wrong. Questions of ethics in science are becoming increasingly complex, especially as technology encroaches upon even our most private cellular spaces. In Doing the Right Thing: Ethics in Science, we cover a wide range of areas in science and medicine where complicated ethical questions come to bear, including genomics and research where informed–and ethically sound–choices are the basis of many scientific studies.
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Creating Freedom
- By: Raoul Martinez
- Narrator: Steve West
- Length: 17 hours 35 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2017
- Language: English
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4.29(303 ratings)
4.29(303 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.95 USDA manifesto for deep and radical change, Creating Freedom explores the limits placed on freedom by human nature and society. It explodes myths, calling for a profound transformation in the way we think about democracy, equality, and our ownA manifesto for deep and radical change, Creating Freedom explores the limits placed on freedom by human nature and society. It explodes myths, calling for a profound transformation in the way we think about democracy, equality, and our own identities.
Free markets, free elections, free media, free thought, free speech, free will–the language of freedom pervades our lives, framing the most urgent issues of our time and the deepest questions about who we are and who we want to be. It is a foundational concept at the heart of our civilization, but it has long been distorted to justify its opposite: soaring inequality, the erosion of democracy, an irrational criminal justice system, and a dehumanizing foreign policy. Raoul Martinez argues that the more we understand the limits on our freedom, the better placed we are to transcend them.
Drawing together findings and ideas from neuroscience, criminology, psychology, politics, climate science, economics, and philosophy, Creating Freedom constructs a radical framework to make sense of the world and empower us to change it. This is a wide-ranging analysis of power, control, and freedom, which asks us to question our inherited identities, question our society, and turn the power to choose into the freedom to create.
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This Is It
- By: Alan Watts
- Narrator: Sean Runnette
- Length: 3 hours 25 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: June 19, 2018
- Language: English
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4.28(2450 ratings)
4.28(2450 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0010.99 USDThis inspiring audiobook contains six revolutionary essays exploring the relationship between spiritual experience and ordinary life–and the need for them to coexist within each of us. With essays on “cosmic consciousness”This inspiring audiobook contains six revolutionary essays exploring the relationship between spiritual experience and ordinary life–and the need for them to coexist within each of us.
With essays on “cosmic consciousness” (including Alan Watts’ account of his own ventures into this inward realm); the paradoxes of self-consciousness; LSD and consciousness; and the false opposition of spirit and matter, This Is It: and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience is a truly mind-opening audiobook collection.
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The World According to Bob
- By: James Bowen
- Narrator: James Bowen
- Length: 6 hours 9 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: May 27, 2014
- Language: English
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4.28(4915 ratings)
4.28(4915 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDSince Bob has appeared, I’ve made huge strides in my life. For more than a decade I was a homeless drug addict. I was lost to the world and had forgotten what was important in life. Now I’ve got myself back on my two feet, but as I putSince Bob has appeared, I’ve made huge strides in my life. For more than a decade I was a homeless drug addict. I was lost to the world and had forgotten what was important in life. Now I’ve got myself back on my two feet, but as I put the past behind me, I’m still stepping unsteadily into the future. I still need help in the right direction. Bob is always there to offer guidance and friendship.’ James and his street cat Bob have been on a remarkable journey together. In the years since their story ended in the bestselling A STREET CAT NAMED BOB James, with Bob’s help, has begun to find his way back to the real world. Almost every day, Bob provides moments of intelligence, bravery and humour, at the same time opening his human friend’s eyes to important truths about friendship, loyalty, trust – and the meaning of happiness. In the continuing tale of their life together James shows the many ways in which Bob has been his protector and guardian angel through times of illness, hardship, even life-threatening danger. As they high five together for their crowds of admirers, James knows that the tricks he’s taught Bob are nothing compared to the lessons he’s learnt from his street-wise cat.
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The Socratic Method
- By: Ward Farnsworth
- Narrator: John Lescault
- Length: 7 hours 46 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.27(290 ratings)
4.27(290 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDA thinking person’s guide to a better life. Ward Farnsworth explains what the Socratic method is, how it works, and why it matters more than ever in our time. Easy to grasp yet challenging to master, the method will change the way you thinkA thinking person’s guide to a better life. Ward Farnsworth explains what the Socratic method is, how it works, and why it matters more than ever in our time. Easy to grasp yet challenging to master, the method will change the way you think about life’s big questions.
About 2,500 years ago, Plato wrote a set of dialogues that depict Socrates in conversation. The way Socrates asks questions, and the reasons why, amount to a whole way of thinking. This is the Socratic method–one of humanity’s great achievements. More than a technique, the method is an ethic of patience, inquiry, humility, and doubt. It is an aid to better thinking, and a remedy for bad habits of mind, whether in law, politics, the classroom, or tackling life’s big questions at the kitchen table.
Drawing on hundreds of quotations, this book explains what the Socratic method is and how to use it. Chapters include “Question and Answer,” “Ignorance,” and “Socrates and the Stoics.” Socratic philosophy is still startling after all these years because it is an approach to asking hard questions and chasing after them. It is a route to wisdom and a way of thinking about wisdom. With Farnsworth as your guide, the ideas of Socrates are easier to understand than ever and accessible to anyone.
As Farnsworth achieved with The Practicing Stoic and the Farnsworth’s Classical English series, ideas of old are made new and vital again. This book is for those coming to philosophy the way Socrates did–as the everyday activity of making sense out of life and how to live it–and for anyone who wants to know what he said about doing that better.
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The Right to Sex
- By: Amia Srinivasan
- Narrator: Andia Winslow
- Length: 6 hours 42 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: September 21, 2021
- Language: English
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4.27(4368 ratings)
4.27(4368 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USD“Laser-cut writing and a stunning intellect. If only every writer made this much beautiful sense.”–Lisa Taddeo, author of Three Women “Amia Srinivasan is an unparalleled and extraordinary writer–no one X-rays an“Laser-cut writing and a stunning intellect. If only every writer made this much beautiful sense.”
–Lisa Taddeo, author of Three Women“Amia Srinivasan is an unparalleled and extraordinary writer–no one X-rays an argument, a desire, a contradiction, a defense mechanism quite like her. In stripping the new politics of sex and power down to its fundamental and sometimes clashing principles, The Right to Sex is a bracing revivification of a crucial lineage in feminist writing: Srinivasan is daring, compassionate, and in relentless search of a new frame.”
–Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self DelusionThrilling, sharp, and deeply humane, philosopher Amia Srinivasan’s The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century upends the way we discuss–or avoid discussing–the problems and politics of sex.
How should we think about sex? It is a thing we have and also a thing we do; a supposedly private act laden with public meaning; a personal preference shaped by outside forces; a place where pleasure and ethics can pull wildly apart.
How should we talk about sex? Since #MeToo many have fixed on consent as the key framework for achieving sexual justice. Yet consent is a blunt tool. To grasp sex in all its complexity—its deep ambivalences, its relationship to gender, class, race and power—we need to move beyond yes and no, wanted and unwanted.
We do not know the future of sex–but perhaps we could imagine it. Amia Srinivasan’s stunning debut helps us do just that. She traces the meaning of sex in our world, animated by the hope of a different world. She reaches back into an older feminist tradition that was unafraid to think of sex as a political phenomenon. She discusses a range of fraught relationships–between discrimination and preference, pornography and freedom, rape and racial injustice, punishment and accountability, students and teachers, pleasure and power, capitalism and liberation.
The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century is a provocation and a promise, transforming many of our most urgent political debates and asking what it might mean to be free.
A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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The Emperor’s Handbook
- By: Marcus Aurelius
- Narrator: Stephen Graybill
- Length: 5 hours 40 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.26(622 ratings)
4.26(622 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDIn the tradition of The Art of Living and Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations–a practical book of timeless advice from one of the most powerful individuals in history–available for the first time in a highly accessible translation,In the tradition of The Art of Living and Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations–a practical book of timeless advice from one of the most powerful individuals in history–available for the first time in a highly accessible translation, including several unique features for contemporary readers and users of daily wisdom guides.
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Essayist Matthew Arnold described the man who wrote these words as “the most beautiful figure in history.” Possibly so, but he was certainly more than that. Marcus Aurelius ruled the Roman Empire at its height, yet he remained untainted by the incalculable wealth and absolute power that had corrupted many of his predecessors. Marcus knew the secret of how to live the good life amid trying and often catastrophic circumstances, of how to find happiness and peace when surrounded by misery and turmoil, and of how to choose the harder right over the easier wrong without apparent regard for self-interest.
The historian Michael Grant praises Marcus’s book as “the best ever written by a major ruler,” and Josiah Bunting, superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute, calls it “the essential book on character, leadership, duty.” Never intended for publication, the Meditations contains the practical and inspiring wisdom by which this remarkable emperor lived the life not of a saintly recluse, but of a general, administrator, legislator, spouse, parent, and judge besieged on all sides.
The Emperor’s Handbook offers a vivid and fresh translation of this important piece of ancient literature. It brings Marcus’s words to life and shows his wisdom to be as relevant today as it was in the second century. This book belongs on the desk and in the briefcase of every business executive, political leader, and military officer. It speaks to the soul of anyone who has ever exercised authority or faced adversity or believed in a better day.
Cliff Weitzman
Cliff Weitzman is a dyslexia advocate and the CEO and founder of Speechify, the #1 text-to-speech app in the world, totaling over 100,000 5-star reviews and ranking first place in the App Store for the News & Magazines category. In 2017, Weitzman was named to the Forbes 30 under 30 list for his work making the internet more accessible to people with learning disabilities. Cliff Weitzman has been featured in EdSurge, Inc., PC Mag, Entrepreneur, Mashable, among other leading outlets.
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