Ancient
Prior Analytics
Read by Geoffrey Edwards
Aristotle
Prior Analytics is the third of Aristotle's six texts on logic which are collectively known as the Organon ("Instrument"). In Prio…
She-rab Dong-bu (The Tree of Wisdom)
Read by Chris Masterson
Nagarjuna
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…
Musings of a Chinese Mystic: Selections from the Philosophy of Chuang Tzu
Read by Scotty Smith
Lionel Giles
If Lao Tzu then had revolted against the growing artificiality of life in his day, a return to nature must have seemed doubly imperative to …
Parva Naturalia
Read by Geoffrey Edwards
Aristotle
Parva Naturalia [the "short treatises on nature" (a conventional Latin title first used by Giles of Rome)] is a collection of book…
Chandogya Upanishad
Read by Jothi Tharavant
Unknowntranslated Byf. Max Müller, Translated Byf. Max Müller and Unknowntranslated By F. Max Müller
The word Upanishad (upa-ni-shad) consists of, "Upa" means "near;" "ni" means "down;" "shad"…
Sophist
Read by Geoffrey Edwards
Plato
Sophist (Ancient Greek: Σοφιστής) discusses being and not-being while drawing a distinction between the philosopher and the sophist. - Summa…
On the Ends of Good and Evil
Read by Geoffrey Edwards
Marcus Tullius Cicero
On the Ends of Good and Evil (Latin: DE FINIBUS BONORUM ET MALORUM) discusses Skeptic, Epicurean, Stoic, Peripatetic and Academic views on t…
Protagoras
Read by Kevin Johnson
Plato
Jowett, in his always informative introduction, sees this dialogue as transitional between the early and middle dialogues. Socrates meets wi…
Theaetetus
Read by Geoffrey Edwards
Plato
Theaetetus (Ancient Greek: Θεαίτητος) discusses concepts including perception, true judgment and knowledge. Socrates compares the human mind…
Ancient Greek Philosopher-Scientists
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Varioustranslated Bywilliam Ellery Leonard and Varioustranslated By William Ellery Leonard
The Pre-Socratic Greek philosophers, that is, the philosopher-scientists who lived before or contemporaneously to Socrates, were the first m…
Parmenides
Read by Geoffrey Edwards
Plato
Parmenides (Ancient Greek: ΠΑΡΜΕΝΙΔΗΣ) recounts a meeting between Socrates, Zeno and Parmenides. Topics discussed include universals, plural…
On Duties
Read by Geoffrey Edwards
Marcus Tullius Cicero
On Duties (Latin: DE OFFICIIS) discusses virtue, expediency and apparent conflicts between the two. St. Ambrose, St. Jerome and other Doctor…
Moral Letters, Vol. II
Read by Suprada Urval
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
This is the second volume of the Letters, Epistles LXVI-XCII. Among the personalities of the early Roman Empire there are few who offer to t…
Eudemian Ethics
Read by Geoffrey Edwards
Aristotle
Eudemian Ethics (Greek: ΗΘΙΚΩΝ ΕΥΔΗΜΙΩΝ Latin: ETHICA EUDEMIA) discusses topics including virtue, friendship, happiness and God. It is belie…
Yang Chu's Garden of Pleasure
Read by Chris Masterson
Liezi
At the Court of Liang at the period of Yang Chu, about 300 B.C., the philosophers were treated as guests of the reigning king, who reserved …
Prasna Upanishad
Read by Jothi Tharavant
Unknowntranslated Byf. Max Müller, Translated Byf. Max Müller and Unknowntranslated By F. Max Müller
The word Upanishad (upa-ni-shad) consists of, "Upa" means "near;" "ni" means "down;" "shad"…
Cratylus
Read by Geoffrey Edwards
Plato
Cratylus (ΚΡΑΤΥΛΟΣ) discusses whether things have names by mere convention or have true names which can only be correctly applied to the obj…
The Enchiridion
Read by John Pederson
Epictetus
The Enchiridion (also translated as “Handbook” or “Manual”) of Epictetus is a short collection of Stoic precepts compiled by Arrian, a stude…
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Read by Jothi Tharavant
Unknowntranslated Byf. Max Müller, Translated Byf. Max Müller and Unknowntranslated By F. Max Müller
The word Upanishad (upa-ni-shad) consists of, "Upa" means "near;" "ni" means "down;" "shad"…
On the Nature of Things (Leonard translation)
Read by Daniel Vimont
Titus Lucretius Carus
On the Nature of Things, written in the first century BCE by Titus Lucretius Carus, is one of the principle expositions on Epicurean philoso…