Philosophy

The Social Contract

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
The Social Contract outlines Rousseau's views on political justice, explaining how a just and legitimate state is to be founded, organized a…

Philosophy

by Bertrand Russell Read by Ciufi Galeazzi 4.5
Bertrand Russell was a well known mathematician, philosopher, and author. First published in England under the title "An Outline of Ph…

The Nicomachean Ethics

by Aristotle Read by Geoffrey Edwards 4.1
The Nicomachean Ethics is Aristotle's foundational text on ethics, exploring the nature of the good life and the virtues necessary for achie…

An Introduction to Metaphysics

by Henri Bergson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
An Introduction to Metaphysics (Introduction a la Metaphysique) is a 1903 essay by Henri Bergson that explores the concept of reality. For B…

Perpetual Peace

by Immanuel Kant Read by D.E. Wittkower 4.5
This essay, written in 1795, puts forth a plan for a lasting peace between nations and peoples. Kant puts forth necessary means to any peace…

Religio Medici and Hydriotaphia

by Thomas Browne Read by Nicole Lee 4.4
Religio Medici (The Religion of a Doctor) sets out Sir Thomas Browne's spiritual testament as well as being an early psychological self-port…

The Convivio

by Dante Alighieri Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
Convivio (The Banquet) is a work written by Dante Alighieri roughly between 1304 and 1307. This unfinished work of Dante consists of four tr…

Leviathan

by Thomas Hobbes Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
In Books 3 and 4 of Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes elaborates on the political philosophy set forth in the first two books, by considering the nat…

Social Statics

by Herbert Spencer Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
Social Statics, or The Conditions essential to Happiness specified, and the First of them Developed is an 1851 book by the British polymath …

Common Sense

by Yoritomo Tashi Read by Thomas Rose 4.6
One of three seminal philosophical works by the twelfth century Japanese Shogun, Yoritomo-Tashi. (From the Preface) He knows how to clothe…

Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy

by George Santayana Read by Gary Gilberd 4.7
Before the beginning of World War II, during the time of the Modernist movement in philosophy, George Santayana wrote these five descriptive…

Philosophical Essays

by Bertrand Russell Read by Landon D. C. Elkind 4.7
Six out of seven essays appearing here were reprinted from other publications; indeed, this 1910 collection went out of print, so that two o…

Discourse on Metaphysics

by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Read by Peter Tucker 4.6
This is a relatively short treatise by the highly influential and admired philosopher and polymath Leibniz. It presents his views on metaphy…

Prior Analytics

by Aristotle Read by Geoffrey Edwards 4.6
Prior Analytics is the third of Aristotle's six texts on logic which are collectively known as the Organon ("Instrument"). In Prio…

Auguste Comte and Positivism

by John Stuart Mill Read by Bill Boerst 4.8
Part 1 lays out the framework for Positivism as originated in France by Auguste Comte in his Cours de Philosophie Positive. Mill examines th…

Ashtavakra Gita

by Rajanikant Chandwadkar 4.9
Android phone users can now listen to this Ashtavakra Gita Audiobook on the go without having to download audio files. An app has been devel…

Statesman

by Plato Read by Geoffrey Edwards 4.5
Statesman is a philosophical dialogue by Plato that explores the nature of leadership and governance. Through a conversation between Socrati…

In Vino Veritas

by Soren Kierkegaard Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
In Vino Veritas is one section of Kierkegaard's Stages on Life's Way, originally published in 1845. In a conscious reference to Plato's Symp…

The Vocation of the Scholar

by Johann Gottlieb Fichte Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.9
The Vocation of the Scholar presents a series of profound lectures by Johann Gottlieb Fichte, a pivotal figure in German idealism. Delivered…

A History of Freedom of Thought

by John Bagnell Bury Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.9
The great civil liberties we enjoy today, like Freedom of Speech and Freedom of the Press, have their foundation in Freedom of Thought. With…

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