Philosophy

Excerpts on Love

by St. Clement of Alexandria 4.8
Excerpts from the Stromata on love, the quest for perfection, women, and the perfect wife. St. Clement of Alexandria was a philosopher and C…

The Brilliant Proof

by Mírzá Abu’L-Fadl Gulpáygání Read by Nicholas James Bridgewater 4.2
“In these days,” writes the renowned Bahá’í scholar, Mírzá Abu’l-Fadl, “which are the latter days of 1911, A. D.…

On the Laws

by Marcus Tullius Cicero Read by Geoffrey Edwards 3.5
On the Laws (Latin: De Legibus) was written shortly after Cicero's "On the Commonwealth" during the last years of the Roman Republ…

Safe in their Alabaster Chambers

by Emily Dickinson Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Safe in their Alabaster Chambers invites listeners into the introspective world of Emily Dickinson, where themes of death, immortality, and …

The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

by Patanjali Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Yoga sutras by Patanjali is a seminal work in yoga, this book is more about control of mind and the true goal of yoga. The sutras are extre…

Confucian Analects

by Confucius 孔子 Read by Jing Li 4.6
The Analects, or Lunyu (simplified Chinese: 论语; traditional Chinese: 論語; pinyin: Lún Yǔ; literally "Classified/Ordered Sayings&q…

Moral Letters

by Lucius Annaeus Seneca Read by Suprada Urval 3.9
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…

The Six Books of Proclus

by Proclus and Thomas Taylor Read by Geoffrey Edwards 1.9
The Six books of Proclus, the Platonic successor, on The Theology of Plato (Greek: ΠΕΡΙ ΤΗΣ ΚΑΤΑ ΠΛΑΤΩΝΑ ΘΕΟΛΟΓΙΑΣ; Latin: Theologia Platoni…

Opuscula

by Aristotle Read by Geoffrey Edwards 3.3
Opuscula is a collection of shorter books that may or may not have been written by Aristotle.1. On Colours2. On Things Heard3. Physiognomoni…

The Life of Reason

by George Santayana Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
The Life of Reason, subtitled "the Phases of Human Progress", is a book published in five volumes from 1905 to 1906, by Spanish-bo…

The Three Great Virtues

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Read by Robert Scott 3.3
In this thought-provoking essay, Ralph Waldo Emerson explores the foundational principles of human character through the lens of the three g…

Selected Works

by Voltairine De Cleyre Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Selected Works presents a collection of writings by Voltairine De Cleyre, a prominent American anarchist and a pioneering voice in the early…

Dialogues of the Dead

by George Lyttelton Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Can the dead of different ages and spaces meet in the afterlife? This is a thought that has occupied a number of writers throughout literatu…

On the Nature of the Gods

by Marcus Tullius Cicero Read by Geoffrey Edwards 3.4
De Natura Deorum (On the Nature of the Gods) outlines Stoic, Epicurean and Academic (Skeptical) views on religious questions. Problems discu…

On Interpretation

by Aristotle Read by Geoffrey Edwards 3.5
Aristotle's On Interpretation (Greek Περὶ Ἑρμηνείας or Peri Hermeneias) or De Interpretatione (the Latin title) is the second of Aristotle's…

The Grand Inquisitor

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3
The Grand Inquisitor is a parable told by Ivan to Alyosha in Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880). Ivan and Alyosha …

Philosophy of Film

by MIT OpenCourseWare 5
Instructor: Prof. Irving Singer This course is a seminar on the philosophical analysis of film art, with an emphasis on the ways in which i…

In Harmony with Nature

by Matthew Arnold Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3
In Harmony with Nature is a reflective exploration of the relationship between humanity and the natural world, penned by the esteemed Britis…

Categories

by Aristotle Read by Geoffrey Edwards 3.2
Categories (Lat. Categoriae, Greek Κατηγορίαι Katēgoriai) is the first of Aristotle's six texts on logic which are collectively known as the…

Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher

by Walter Savage Landor Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3
LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher by Walter Savage Landor. This was the Weekly Poetry projec…

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