Philosophy

Culture and Anarchy

by Matthew Arnold Read by Nicole Lee 4.6
Culture and Anarchy is a series of periodical essays by Matthew Arnold, first published in Cornhill Magazine 1867-68 and collected as a book…

Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll

by Robert G. Ingersoll Read by Ted Delorme 4.8
Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll presents a compelling collection of thought-provoking lectures from one of the most influential orators of t…

Essays

by Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne is one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance, known for popularising the essay as a literary …

The Constitution of Athens

by Aristotle Read by Geoffrey Edwards 4.6
The Constitution of Athens (Greek: Ἀθηναίων πολιτεία) was written by Aristotle or his student. The text was lost until discovered in the lat…

Sophistical Elenchi

by Aristotle Read by Geoffrey Edwards 4.7
The Sophistical Elenchi is the sixth of Aristotle's six texts on logic which are collectively known as the Organon ("Instrument").…

Summa Theologica

by Saint Thomas Aquinas Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
The Summa Theologica (or the Summa Theologiae or simply the Summa, written between 1265–1274) is the most famous work of Thomas Aquinas, eve…

Unto this Last

by John Ruskin Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
Unto This Last is a seminal work by John Ruskin that challenges the foundations of political economy and critiques the prevailing capitalist…

Democracy and Education

by John Dewey Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
An important, controversial, and often cited work on public education. Dewey discusses the role of public education in a democracy and the d…

Winds of Doctrine

by George Santayana Read by Expatriate 5
Even before the Great War turned the world upside down, Western civilization was being revolutionized at all levels: intellectually, philos…

Siddhartha

by Hermann Hesse Read by Peter Kuhn 4.7
A major preoccupation of Hesse in writing Siddhartha was to cure his "sickness with life" (Lebenskrankheit) by immersing himself i…

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…

A System of Logic

by John Stuart Mill Read by Chris Greaves 4.5
"In this work, he formulated the five principles of inductive reasoning that are known as Mill's Methods. This work is important in the…

Svetasvatara Upanishad

by Unknowntranslated Byf. Max Müller, Translated Byf. Max Müller and Unknowntranslated By F. Max Müller Read by Jothi Tharavant 4.7
The word Upanishad (upa-ni-shad) consists of, "Upa" means "near;" "ni" means "down;" "shad"…

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…

Selections from the Principles of Philosophy

by René Descartes Read by Foon 4.7
The Principles of Philosophy, originally published in Latin in 1644, and translated to French in 1647, sets forth the principles of nature--…

De Profundis

by Oscar Wilde Read by AdamH 4.5
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 Enchiridion

by Epictetus Read by Brian Mumford 4.8
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius is studied and admired by successful people the world over. Marcus Aurelius thought of the Enchiridion in…

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…

The Mind and the Brain

by Alfred Binet Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
The authorized translation of L’âme et le corps, F. Legge, editor“This book is a prolonged effort to establish a distinction between w…

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…

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