Philosophy

The Spirit of Laws (Volume 1)

Read by Benjamin Gittins


Montesquieu


This audiobook covers Volume 1 (Books I to XIX) of "The Spirit of the Laws" (French: De "l'esprit des lois", also someti…

Pathological Lying, Accusation, and Swindling – A Study in Forensic Psychology

Read by Mary Schneider


William Healy


This work describes and analyzes several cases of pathological behavior. The interest comes not only from the cases themselves, but also fro…

Poetics

Read by Robert Foster


Aristotle


Aristotle’s Poetics from the 4th century B.C. aims to give a short study of storytelling. It discusses things like unity of plot, reversal o…

The World as Will and Idea Volume 1

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Arthur Schopenhauer


Schopenhauer used the word "will" as a human's most familiar designation for the concept that can also be signified by other words…

A Treatise Of Human Nature, Volume 1

Read by George Yeager


David Hume


This book, published in two volumes called "books" by the author, is a treatment of everything from the origin of our ideas to how…

Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy

Read by Landon D. C. Elkind


Bertrand Russell


Bertrand Russell wrote 'Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy' while imprisoned for protesting Britain's involvement in World War I. Russe…

Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One’s Reason and of Seeking Truth

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René Descartes


The Discourse on Method is best known as the source of the famous quotation “cogito ergo sum”, “I think, therefore I am.” …. It is a method …

Gorgias

Read by Kevin Johnson


Plato


This dialogue brings Socrates face to face with the famous sophist Gorgias and his followers. It is a work likely completed around the time …

The Shining Gateway

Read by Audio Andrea


James Allen


Students of the works of James Allen all over the world will welcome with joy another book from his able pen. In this work we find the Proph…

Why Marry?

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Jesse Lynch Williams


Why Marry? is a comedy, which "tells the truth about marriage". We find a family in the throes of proving the morality of marriage…

The Coming of the Fairies

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


After a number of deaths in his close family, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle turned to spiritualism in hope of finding proof of the afterlife. Being…

A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality Among Mankind

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau


This work presents Rousseau's belief in the profoundly transformational effects of the development of civilization on human nature, which Ro…

Spiritual Maxims

Read by Anonymous English Quaker


Brother Lawrence


Those who have an experiential predisposition in their faith would do well to read The Conversations and Letters of Brother Lawrence… if the…

Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: The Book of the Spiritual Man (version 3)

Read by Maggie Russell


Patanjali


This is Charles Johnston's translation of and commentary on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. Johnston's interpretation of this seminal yogic te…

Fables de La Fontaine, livre 11

Read by Jean Lambert


Jean de la Fontaine


Ce onzième livre des fables de Jean de La Fontaine est celui qui contient le plus petit nombre de fables: 10. Toutefois, les textes d…

Critias

Read by Kevin Johnson


Plato


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 …

Sadhana, The Realisation of Life, version 2

Read by Peter Yearsley


Rabindranath Tagore


A collection of essays on the Hindu/Buddhist view of humankind's place in the universe. As the author says in his introduction: "in the…

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