Philosophy

The New Organon

by Francis Bacon Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
In New Organon, Francis Bacon argues for a new way to investigate nature: instead of relying on inherited authorities and abstract reasoning…

Thoughts on Art and Life

by Leonardo da Vinci Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
This is a compilation of the thoughts on art, science and life of Leonardo da Vinci, translated by Maurice Baring and edited by Lewis Einst…

Posterior Analytics

by Aristotle Read by Geoffrey Edwards 4.8
Posterior Analytics is a foundational work in the field of logic and epistemology by the ancient philosopher Aristotle. As part of his influ…

Six Metaphysical Meditations

by René Descartes Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
These are six meditations by the French philosopher Rene Descartes, best known for his conclusion "Cogito, ergro sum" "I Thin…

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…

What I Believe

by Bertrand Russell Read by Ty Lasky 4.6
Provides a brief indication of the beliefs of philosopher Bertrand Russell, focusing on his hopes for the future. The topics included are: n…

The Age of Reason

by Thomas Paine Read by Steve Brown 4.4
The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology, a deistic treatise written by eighteenth-century British radical an…

Religion and Science from Galileo to Bergson

by John Charlton Hardwick Read by Laurie Anne Walden 4.6
This history of Western philosophy, published in 1920, explores how people have explained the natural world during the last few centuries, w…

The Concept of Nature

by Alfred North Whitehead Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
In The Concept of Nature, Alfred North Whitehead discusses the interrelatedness of time, space, and human perception.The idea of objects as …

The Phenomenology of Mind

by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Read by Foon 5
Phänomenologie des Geistes (1807) is Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's most important and widely discussed philosophical work. Hegel's fi…

The Communist Manifesto

by Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx Read by Jon Ingram 4.1
The Communist Manifesto is a pivotal political document co-authored by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, first published in 1847. This influen…

Aitreya-Aranyaka Upanishad

by Unknown Read by Jothi Tharavant 4.9
The word Upanishad (upa-ni-shad) consists of, "Upa" means "near;" "ni" means "down;" "shad"…

Prasna Upanishad

by Unknown Read by Jothi Tharavant 4.7
The word Upanishad (upa-ni-shad) consists of, "Upa" means "near;" "ni" means "down;" "shad"…

A Defence of Idealism

by May Sinclair Read by Expatriate 4.9
The philosophy of Idealism, revived in eighteenth-century Europe by George Berkeley, argued against philosophical materialism by maintaining…

She-rab Dong-bu

by Nagarjuna Read by Chris Masterson 4.5
The She-rab Dong-bu (Tree of Wisdom) is a metrical translation in Tibetan of a Sanscrit ethical work entitled Prajnya Danda, written by Naga…

Svetasvatara Upanishad

by Unknown Read by Jothi Tharavant 4.7
The word Upanishad (upa-ni-shad) consists of, "Upa" means "near;" "ni" means "down;" "shad"…

Cosmos

by Alexander Von Humboldt Read by David Wales 5
Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt was a Prussian geographer, naturalist, explorer, and influential proponent of romantic phi…

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…

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…

A Dissertation Concerning the Nature of True Virtue

by Jonathan Edwards Read by Expatriate 4.3
Disproportionately remembered as a hellfire-and-brimstone Puritan preacher on the basis of the excessively-anthologized "Sinners in the…

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