Philosophy
The Song Against Songs
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
G. K. Chesterton
LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of The Song Against Songs by G. K. Chesterton. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for Octobe…
Auguste Comte and Positivism
Read by Bill Boerst
John Stuart Mill
Part 1 lays out the framework for Positivism as originated in France by Auguste Comte in his Cours de Philosophie Positive. Mill examines th…
The Riddle of the Universe
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Ernst Haeckel
The Riddle of the Universe is the philosophical work of Ernst Haeckel, eminent biologist, in which he explores the meaning of life, the natu…
Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll, Volume 2
Read by Ted Delorme
Robert G. Ingersoll
A second volume of lectures by the most famous orator of the 19th century. Ingersoll was a tireless crusader for the dignity of humanity, an…
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Luigi Pirandello
Six Characters in Search of an Author (Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore) is the most famous and celebrated play by the Italian writer Luigi …
Human Nature And Conduct - Part 1, The Place of Habit in Conduct
Read by William Allan Jones
John Dewey
John Dewey, an early 20th Century American philosopher, psychologist, educational theorist saw Social Psychology as much a physical science …
מדינת היהודים (The Jewish State)
Read by Omri Lernau
Theodor Herzl
Der Judenstaat (German, The Jewish State) is a book written by Theodor Herzl and published in 1896 in Leipzig and Vienna by M. Breitenstein'…
The Truth About Jesus. Is He a Myth?
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
M. M. Mangasarian
The following work offers in book form the series of studies on the question of the historicity of Jesus, presented from time to time before…
Considerations on Representative Government
Read by Bill Boerst
John Stuart Mill
Mill's volume was published in 1861 as an argument favoring this form of governance. Mill covers what forms of government work best, includi…
Tusculan Disputations
Read by Geoffrey Edwards
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Tusculan Disputations (Latin: TUSCULANARUM DISPUTATIONUM) is divided into five books which discuss death, pain, grief, perturbations and vir…
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 002
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Various
A collection of ten short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches and reports included in this collection were independ…
De Profundis (version 2)
Read by AdamH
Oscar Wilde
This is a letter written from prison in 1897 by Oscar Wilde to Lord Alfred Douglas, in which he recounts how he came to be in prison and cha…
The Madman: His Parables And Poems and The Forerunner: His Parables And Poems
Read by David Wales
Kahlil Gibran
Two short books by the Lebanese-American writer, poet, and mystic. Reflections on existence and life, purpose and meaning. His most famous w…
Essay on the Trial by Jury
Read by BethAnne
Lysander Spooner
FOR more than six hundred years that is, since Magna Carta, in 1215 there has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutiona…
Omega: The Last Days of the World
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Camille Flammarion
Omega: The Last Days of the World is a science fiction novel published in 1894 by Camille Flammarion. On 25th century Earth, a comet made mo…
The Arabic Hidden Words
Read by Nicholas James Bridgewater
Bahá'U'Lláh
Kalimát-i-Maknúnih or The Hidden Words is a book written in Baghdad around 1857 by Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of t…
What Is Love?
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Ernest Dowson
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of What Is Love? by Ernest Dowson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 15, 2012.Ernest C…