Philosophy

The Age of Reason

by Thomas Paine Read by lukkystarr 4.4
The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology, a deistic treatise written by eighteenth-century British radical an…

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--…

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…

She-rab Dong-bu

by Nagarjuna Read by Chris Masterson 4.5
The She-rab Dong-bu (Tree of Wisdom) is a metrical translation in Tibetan of a Sanscrit ethical work entitled Prajnya Danda, written by Naga…

A Dissertation Concerning the Nature of True Virtue

by Jonathan Edwards Read by Expatriate 4.3
Disproportionately remembered as a hellfire-and-brimstone Puritan preacher on the basis of the excessively-anthologized "Sinners in the…

Unto this Last

by John Ruskin Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
Unto This Last is a seminal work by John Ruskin that challenges the foundations of political economy and critiques the prevailing capitalist…

Lesser Hippias

by Plato Read by Kevin Johnson 4.7
This work may not be by Plato, or his entirely, but Jowett has offered his sublime translation, and seems to lean towards including it in th…

The Anatomy of Melancholy

by Robert Burton Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
The Anatomy of Melancholy is a book by Robert Burton, first published in 1621. On its surface, the book is a medical textbook in which Burto…

Democracy and Education

by John Dewey Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
An important, controversial, and often cited work on public education. Dewey discusses the role of public education in a democracy and the d…

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 …

The Phenomenology of Mind

by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Read by Foon 5
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 4.5
The Summa Theologica (or the Summa Theologiae or simply the Summa, written between 1265–1274) is the most famous work of Thomas Aquinas, eve…

Sentiment, Inc.

by Poul William Anderson Read by Phil Chenevert 4.1
Sentiment, Inc. explores the intricate relationship between emotions and perceptions in a world where feelings can be manipulated. Imagine a…

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").…

Siddhartha

by Hermann Hesse Read by Peter Kuhn 4.7
A major preoccupation of Hesse in writing Siddhartha was to cure his "sickness with life" (Lebenskrankheit) by immersing himself i…

The Freedom of the Will

by Jonathan Edwards Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
As religion is the great business, for which we are created, and on which our happiness depends; and as religion consists in an intercourse …

Human Nature And Conduct

by John Dewey Read by William Allan Jones 4.2
John Dewey, an early 20th Century American philosopher, psychologist, educational theorist saw Social Psychology as much a physical science …

The Constitution of Athens

by Aristotle Read by Geoffrey Edwards 4.6
The Constitution of Athens (Greek: Ἀθηναίων πολιτεία) was written by Aristotle or his student. The text was lost until discovered in the lat…

The Song Celestial

by Unknowntranslated Bysir Edwin Arnold, Translated Bysir Edwin Arnold and Unknowntranslated By Sir Edwin Arnold Read by Jothi Tharavant 4.6
This work is a unique rendering of the Bagavad Gita by a well known poet. It is faithful to the text and yet does not read like a translatio…

The Life of Jesus Critically Examined

by David Friedrich Strauss Read by Leni 4.7
Strauss was an early pioneer in the ongoing 'Quest of the Historical Jesus' movement, and his Life of Jesus is one of the few landmarks in t…

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