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10-Minute Philosophy
- From Buddhism to Stoicism, Confucius and Aristotle - Bite-Sized Wisdom From Some of History's Greatest Thinkers
- By: Patrick King
- Narrated by: Russell Newton
- Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Classic ideas and ancient concepts broken down for the modern age. A non-academic approach to better living and greater happiness. Philosophy doesn’t have to be pointless and boring. If we can cut through the difficult language and roundabout reasoning, we’ll find a treasure trove of knowledge and enlightenment. But don’t worry, this is no textbook.
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Great listen
- By Eva on 04-03-2024
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10-Minute Philosophy
- From Buddhism to Stoicism, Confucius and Aristotle - Bite-Sized Wisdom From Some of History's Greatest Thinkers
- Narrated by: Russell Newton
- Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 11-07-2019
- Language: English
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The Lost Knowledge of the Imagination
- By: Gary Lachman
- Narrated by: Leslie James
- Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Imagination is a core aspect of being human. Our imagination allows us to fully experience ourselves in relation to the world and reality. Since the 17th century, however, imagination has been sidelined and dismissed as "make believe". Four centuries ago, a new way of knowing the world and ourselves emerged in the west and has gone on to dominate human life: science. Imagination has been marginalized - depicted as a way of escaping reality, rather than coming to grips with it - and its significance to our humanity has been downplayed.
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An excellent work poorly performed.
- By Ronny Bay on 22-03-2026
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The Lost Knowledge of the Imagination
- Narrated by: Leslie James
- Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 16-05-2018
- Language: English
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Culture and the Death of God
- By: Terry Eagleton
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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How to live in a supposedly faithless world threatened by religious fundamentalism? Terry Eagleton, formidable thinker and renowned cultural critic, investigates in this thought-provoking audiobook the contradictions, difficulties, and significance of the modern search for a replacement for God. Lucid, stylish, and entertaining in his usual manner, Eagleton presents a brilliant survey of modern thought that also serves as a timely, urgently needed intervention into our perilous political present.
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Culture and the Death of God
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 01-07-2014
- Language: English
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How to Be a Friend
- An Ancient Guide to True Friendship
- By: Marcus Tullius Cicero, Philip Freeman - Introduction, Philip Freeman - Translator
- Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
- Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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In a world where social media, online relationships, and relentless self-absorption threaten the very idea of deep and lasting friendships, the search for true friends is more important than ever. In this short book, famous Roman politician and philosopher Cicero offers a compelling guide to finding, keeping, and appreciating friends. With wit and wisdom, Cicero teaches not only how to build friendships but also why they must be a key part of our lives. For, as Cicero says, life without friends is not worth living.
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How to Be a Friend
- An Ancient Guide to True Friendship
- Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
- Release date: 09-10-2018
- Language: English
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Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy
- By: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Narrated by: Ray Childs
- Length: 3 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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In this, his first book, Nietzsche developed a way of thinking about the arts that unites the Greek gods Apollo and Dionysus as the central symbol of human existence. Although tragedy serves as the focus of this work, music, visual art, dance, and the other arts can also be viewed using Nietzsche's analysis and integration of the Apollonian and the Dionysian. The Birth of Tragedy stands alongside Aristotle's Poetics as an essential work for all who seek to understand poetry and its relationship to human life.
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Don't read this one first
- By Anonymous User on 16-09-2019
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Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy
- Narrated by: Ray Childs
- Length: 3 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 08-03-2016
- Language: English
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The Murder of Professor Schlick
- The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle
- By: David Edmonds
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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On June 22, 1936, the philosopher Moritz Schlick was on his way to deliver a lecture at the University of Vienna when Johann Nelböck, a deranged former student of Schlick's, shot him dead on the university steps. Some Austrian newspapers defended the madman, while Nelböck himself argued in court that his onetime teacher had promoted a treacherous Jewish philosophy. David Edmonds traces the rise and fall of the Vienna Circle - an influential group of brilliant thinkers led by Schlick.
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The Murder of Professor Schlick
- The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 23-11-2021
- Language: English
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How to Run a Country
- An Ancient Guide for Modern Leaders
- By: Marcus Tullius Cicero, Philip Freeman - translator
- Narrated by: James Adams
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Marcus Cicero, Rome's greatest statesman and orator, was elected to the Roman Republic's highest office at a time when his beloved country was threatened by power-hungry politicians, dire economic troubles, foreign turmoil, and political parties that refused to work together. Sound familiar? Cicero's letters, speeches, and other writings are filled with timeless wisdom and practical insight about how to solve these and other problems of leadership and politics. How to Run a Country collects the best of these writings to provide an entertaining, common-sense guide for modern leaders and citizens
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How to Run a Country
- An Ancient Guide for Modern Leaders
- Narrated by: James Adams
- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
- Release date: 10-05-2013
- Language: English
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Irrationality
- A History of the Dark Side of Reason
- By: Justin E. H. Smith
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
- Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Discovering that reason is the defining feature of our species, we named ourselves the “rational animal”. But is this flattering story itself rational? In this sweeping account of irrationality from antiquity to today - from the fifth-century BC murder of Hippasus for revealing the existence of irrational numbers to the rise of Twitter mobs and the election of Donald Trump - Justin Smith says the evidence suggests the opposite.
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Irrationality
- A History of the Dark Side of Reason
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
- Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 02-04-2019
- Language: English
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The Grammar of Angels
- A Search for the Magical Powers of Language
- By: Edward Wilson-Lee
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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'Ingenious… a glorious portrait of the great 15th-century prince of learning' Daily Telegraph 'A deeply fascinating, sui generis book by a brilliant scholar-writer, which uses the life story of a Renaissance prodigy to summon an angel-host of ideas, people and stories, all circling the...
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Well researched and narrated by the author himself
- By Amazon Customer on 17-02-2025
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The Grammar of Angels
- A Search for the Magical Powers of Language
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 30-01-2025
- Language: English
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What Is Stoicism?
- A Brief and Accessible Overview
- By: Tanner Campbell, Kai Whiting
- Narrated by: Tanner Campbell
- Length: 2 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Divided into short chapters that can be listened to in brief sittings, What Is Stoicism? compiles two millennia of Stoic thought into simple conversational prose.
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What Is Stoicism?
- A Brief and Accessible Overview
- Narrated by: Tanner Campbell
- Length: 2 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 19-11-2024
- Language: English
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Philosophy: 100 Essential Thinkers
- The Ideas That Have Shaped Our World
- By: Philip Stokes
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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This engaging and accessible book invites the listener to explore the questions and arguments of philosophy through the work of 100 of the greatest thinkers within the Western intellectual tradition - covering philosophical, scientific, political, and religious thought over a period of 2500 years.
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Meant for people already familiar with philosophy
- By Shayne Bates on 21-02-2019
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Philosophy: 100 Essential Thinkers
- The Ideas That Have Shaped Our World
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 03-11-2015
- Language: English
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What Does It All Mean?
- A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy
- By: Thomas Nagel
- Narrated by: Adriel Brandt
- Length: 2 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Distinguished author of Mortal Questions and The View from Nowhere sets forth the central problems of philosophical inquiry for the beginning student. Arguing that the best way to learn about philosophy is to think about its questions directly, Thomas Nagel considers possible solutions to nine problems - knowledge of the world beyond our minds, knowledge of other minds, the mind-body problem, free will, the basis of morality, right and wrong, the nature of death, the meaning of life, and the meaning of words.
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What Does It All Mean?
- A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy
- Narrated by: Adriel Brandt
- Length: 2 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 05-02-2021
- Language: English
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Stoicism & Western Buddhism
- A Reflection on Two Philosophical Ways of Life
- By: Patrick Ussher
- Narrated by: Isabel McCune
- Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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The book explores themes of Buddhist and Stoic mindfulness, shared psychological insights, as well as Stoic and Buddhist practices for cultivating compassion and concern for others. It is for anyone who is interested in how either Stoicism or Buddhism can be a helpful and heartfelt addition to his or her life, as well as reflecting on how both Stoicism and Buddhism are undergoing dynamic "reinterpretations" in the modern world.
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Stoicism & Western Buddhism
- A Reflection on Two Philosophical Ways of Life
- Narrated by: Isabel McCune
- Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 12-01-2021
- Language: English
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Meditations
- A New Translation
- By: Marcus Aurelius, Ryan Holiday - introduction, Gregory Hays - translator
- Narrated by: Roger Davis, Ryan Holiday
- Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER Timeless insights into what it takes to lead a meaningful life—still profoundly relevant nearly two thousand years later. Now featuring a brand-new foreword from Ryan Holiday, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Obstacle Is the Way! “Meditations offers a...
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The narrator isn’t for me
- By Anonymous on 26-09-2023
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Meditations
- A New Translation
- Narrated by: Roger Davis, Ryan Holiday
- Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 11-07-2023
- Language: English
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Socrates: Philosophy in an Hour
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Philosophy for busy people. Listen to this succinct account of the philosophy of Socrates in just one hour. Socrates is widely renowned as one of the founders of Western philosophy, despite the fact that his ideas survive largely through the work of his pupil Plato. Socrates’ dialectic – a...
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Don’t bother
- By AC on 01-12-2022
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Socrates: Philosophy in an Hour
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
- Release date: 30-05-2013
- Language: English
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Divine Fury
- A History of Genius
- By: Darrin M. McMahon
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
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Genius. The word connotes an almost unworldly power: the power to create, to grasp universal secrets, even to destroy. As renowned intellectual historian Darrin McMahon explains in Divine Fury, the concept of genius can be traced back to antiquity, when men of great insight were thought to be advised by demons. The modern idea of genius emerged in tension with a growing belief in human equality; contesting the notion that all are created equal, geniuses served to dramatize the exception of extraordinary individuals not governed by ordinary laws.
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Divine Fury
- A History of Genius
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 30-12-2013
- Language: English
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The Little Book of Stoic Wisdom
- Learn the Art of Living Well with Classical Philosophy
- By: Joseph Piercy
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 3 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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The Little Book of Stoic Wisdom is a classical primer for anyone wanting to understand true stoicism–and even though we’re living in drastically different times to the ancients, many of the lessons of Seneca, Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius still stand today.
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The Little Book of Stoic Wisdom
- Learn the Art of Living Well with Classical Philosophy
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 3 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 18-12-2025
- Language: English
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On the Happy Life - The Complete Dialogues
- By: Seneca
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
- Length: 14 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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In his dialogues, the Stoic philosopher Seneca outlines his thoughts on how to live in a troubled world. Tutor to the young emperor Nero, Seneca wrote practical philosophical exercises that draw upon contemporary Roman life and illuminate the intellectual concerns of the day. The dialogues also have much to say to the modern listener, as they range widely across subjects such as the shortness of life, tranquility of mind, anger, mercy, happiness, and grief at the loss of a loved one.
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On the Happy Life - The Complete Dialogues
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
- Length: 14 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 05-03-2021
- Language: English
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Um café com Sêneca
- Um guia estoico para a arte de viver [A Stoic Guide to the Art of Living]
- By: David Fideler
- Narrated by: Matias Correa
- Length: 8 hrs
- Unabridged
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O estoicismo, a escola filosófica mais influente do Império Romano, oferece formas surpreendentemente atuais de fortalecer nosso caráter em um mundo cada vez mais caótico e imprevisível. Reconhecido como o filósofo mais talentoso e humano da tradição estoica, Sêneca nos ensina a levar uma vida boa e com propósito.
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Um café com Sêneca
- Um guia estoico para a arte de viver [A Stoic Guide to the Art of Living]
- Narrated by: Matias Correa
- Length: 8 hrs
- Release date: 10-08-2022
- Language: Portuguese
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How to Be
- Life Lessons from the Early Greeks
- By: Adam Nicolson
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 9 hrs
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A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR What is the nature of things? Must I think my own way through the world? What is justice? How can I be me? How should we treat each other? Before the Greeks, the idea of the world was dominated by god-kings and their priests, in a life ruled by imagined metaphysical...
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How to Be
- Life Lessons from the Early Greeks
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 9 hrs
- Release date: 08-06-2023
- Language: English
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