Philosophical Essays on Existence

This collection features a range of essays that delve into the fundamental questions of existence, morality, and human understanding. Each work presents a unique philosophical perspective, inviting readers to explore the depths of thought from renowned thinkers across history.

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

by Henry David Thoreau Read by Gord Mackenzie 4.7
Civil Disobedience is an essay by Henry David Thoreau. Published in 1849 under the title Resistance to Civil Government, it expressed Thorea…

Essays, First Series

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Read by Bob Neufeld 4.7
Essays, First Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson presents a profound exploration of transcendentalist philosophy through twelve insightful essays…

Sadhana, The Realisation of Life

by Rabindranath Tagore Read by Peter Yearsley 4.7
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…

Heretics

by G. K. Chesterton Read by Ray Clare 4.7
Heretics is a thought-provoking collection of essays by G. K. Chesterton, where he boldly critiques the prevailing philosophies of his time.…

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

by David Hume Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
The Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is a shortened and simplified version of Hume's masterpiece A Treatise of Human Nature. It sough…

Meditations on First Philosophy

by René Descartes Read by D.E. Wittkower 4.6
After several years working on a treatise putting forth his mechanistic philosophy and physics, Descartes shelved the project when his conte…

The Age of Reason

by Thomas Paine Read by JoeD 4.7
The Age of Reason; Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology is a pamphlet, written by a British and American revolutionary Thoma…

The Everlasting Man

by G. K. Chesterton Read by InTheDesert 4.8
This book needs a preliminary note that its scope be not misunderstood. The view suggested is historical rather than theological, and does n…

Studies in Pessimism

by Arthur Schopenhauer Read by D.E. Wittkower 4.7
Arthur Schopenhauer, an early 19th century philosopher, made significant contributions to metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics. His work also…

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

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau Read by ej 4.4
This work presents Rousseau's belief in the profoundly transformational effects of the development of civilization on human nature, which Ro…

The Genealogy of Morals

by Friedrich Nietzsche Read by Jeffrey Church 4.7
In 1887, with the view of amplifying and completing certain new doctrines which he had merely sketched in Beyond Good and Evil (see especial…

Walden

by Henry David Thoreau Read by Gord Mackenzie 4.6
Walden by Henry David Thoreau is one of the best-known non-fiction books written by an American. Published in 1854, it details Thoreau’s lif…