Philosophy Audiobooks

Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt was a Prussian geographer, naturalist, explorer, and influential representative of Romantic philosophy. Many consider him the last great polymath. After he died in 1859, the scientific community began to fragment into different disciplines, each...

This popular science book was written at the end of the 17th century. It is a series of conversations between an intrepid philosopher and a countess as they walk in a garden and gaze at the stars. The philosopher explains the heliocentric (centered on the sun) model of the solar system and ponders...

The Analects of Confucius or Analects (Simplified Chinese: Analects; Traditional Chinese: Analects; Pinyin: Lún Yǔ; literally "classified/ordered sayings"), also known as the Analects, is considered a record of words and deeds by the central Chinese thinker and philosopher Home Confucius...

Categories (Latin Categoriae, Greek Кατηγορίαι Katēgoriai) are the first of six writings on logic by Aristotle, collectively called Organon. In classes, Aristotle lists all the things that could be the subject or predicate of a sentence. Aristotle assigned each object of human perception to one of...

Volume 1 of Das Kapital is the first of three volumes in Karl Marx's magnum opus Das Kapital, and the only volume published during his lifetime in 1867. Marx's goal in Volume I of Capital was to uncover and explain the specific laws of the capitalist mode of production and the class struggle rooted...

In this famous early work of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, he examines the artistic features of the Apollonian (reason) and Dionysian (passion) characters in Greek art, especially the development of Greek tragedy. He then applies his conclusions about Greek tragedy to the state of modern...

The content of the text is a dialogue between Krishna and Arjuna on the battlefield of Kurushtra before a dramatic battle begins. Responding to Arjuna's confusion and moral dilemma, Krishna explained to Arjuna his duties as a warrior and prince and expounded many different yogic and Vedic...

First published in 1886 at Nietzsche's own expense, the book was not initially considered important. In it, Nietzsche denounces what he sees as the moral emptiness of nineteenth-century thinkers. He attacked philosophers for their lack of critical awareness and their blind acceptance of Christian...

Nietzsche's masterpiece is by turns illuminating, annoying, confusing, and entertaining, and it covers a lot of ground. Rejecting most Western trends of thought, especially in matters of morality, he developed his own themes, calling on individuals to embrace their own "will to power"...

Jeremy Bentham's Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, a classic of modern philosophy and jurisprudence, first published in 1789, focuses on the principle of utility and this The relationship between moral values ​​and legislative practice. Bentham's ambition was to create a...