Philosophy
- Philosophical Explorations of Faith
- Explorations of Human Nature
- Foundations of Political Philosophy
- Philosophical Essays on Existence
- Philosophical Classics of Antiquity
Short Nonfiction Collection
Explore a diverse array of ideas and insights in this collection of fifteen short nonfiction works, each selected by dedicated LibriVox volu…
American Philosophy Collection
This collection of articles in early 20th Century American philosophy focuses on the topics of realism, experience, and ideas, with particul…
Religio Medici
Selections from the varied writings of a 17th century English doctor with a well-stocked mind, an interest in the new science of his age and…
Thomas Hobbes
This work is a look at the life and ideas of Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher of the seventeenth century. The most important ideas are fo…
Sophist
Sophist is a profound dialogue by Plato that delves into the nature of existence, exploring the concepts of being and not-being. Through a s…
Apocrypha
It is not generally agreed whether Plato was the author of any of these books. I. Hippias Major (or Greater Hippias)II. Second Alcibiades (…
The Phenomenology of Mind
Phänomenologie des Geistes (1807) is Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's most important and widely discussed philosophical work. Hegel's fi…
The City of the Sun
The City of the Sun invites listeners into a thought-provoking dialogue between a Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitallers and a Genoese sea …
The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche
Volume 3 of the complete works contains several short critical introductory essays, five lectures under the heading "On the Future of o…
Discovering the Middle Way
Nagarjuna, the great Indian Buddhist philosopher who lived around the second century, composed The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way, con…
Eryxias
Eryxias is a philosophical dialogue that delves into the nature of wealth and its true value. Set against the backdrop of ancient philosophi…
The Book of Lies
The Book of Lies, or Liber 333, is a holy book in the Western occult tradition of Thelema, consisting of 91 short chapters of poems, aphoris…
Life's Enthusiasms
The words in this essay on positive thought sing like those in Whitman's "Leaves of Grass." The author praises joyous living and r…
The Life of Reason
The Life of Reason, subtitled "the Phases of Human Progress", is a book published in five volumes from 1905 to 1906, by Spanish-bo…
Beyond Good and Evil
First published in 1886 at Nietzsche’s own expense, the book was not initially considered important. In it, Nietzsche denounced what he cons…
Poetics
Aristotle’s Poetics from the 4th century B.C. aims to give a short study of storytelling. It discusses things like unity of plot, reversal o…
Short Nonfiction Collection
Twenty short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include History--Jocelyn de Brakelond's 13th…
Representative Men
A series of biographical lectures originally published in 1850. Each chapter is a philosophical treatment of the life of an intellectual. Th…
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
This is the third book of John Locke's Essay on Human Understanding. Book I was Neither Principles Nor Ideas Are Innate. Book II was Of Idea…
Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution
In the heat of the failed 1905 revolution in Russia, Lenin here contrasts the precision of the Bolshevik political program and tactics with …