Philosophy

Dialogues

by Plato Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
Στους διαλόγους του ο Πλάτωνας (427 π.Χ. – 347 π.Χ.) παρουσιάζει τις φιλοσοφικές του θεωρίες με τη μορφή συζήτησης, που με κάποια υπαρκτή ή …

L’Individualisme et les intellectuels

by Émile Durkheim Read by Cyprien 4.5
« Non seulement l’individualisme n’est pas l’anarchie, mais c’est désormais le seul système de croyances qui puisse assu…

Epistulae Morales Selectae

by Lucius Annaeus Seneca Read by Malone 2.9
Seneca is an important repository of Stoic doctrine. His reputation, based on the ancient testimony, has remained ambiguous down to the pres…

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…

Von der Gemüthsruhe

by Lucius Annaeus Seneca Read by redaer 0.8
Die Frage ist also: wie man es dahin bringe, daß das Gemüth immer seinen gleichmäßigen und ungestörten Gang gehe,…

Vertheidigung des Socrates

by Xenophon Read by redaer 0.7
Xenophon möchte zeigen, dass Sokrates ganz bewusst in den Tod gegangen sei. Das Unglück seines Todes war kein Zufall. Denn der Phi…

Of the Injustice of Counterfeiting Books

by Immanuel Kant Read by D.E. Wittkower 4.2
This essay of Kant’s on copyright argues that the unlicensed copying of books cannot possibly be permissible, due to the fact that it assume…

Bacon

by Richard William Church Read by Bill Boerst 4.2
This investigation of Bacon the scholar and man of letters begins with a look at the early days and progresses to his relationships with Que…

Short Nonfiction Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
A collection of fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches, news items and reports included in this collectio…

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…

Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions

by John Donne Read by David Wales 4.9
Devotions upon Emergent Occasions is a 1624 prose work by the English theologian and writer John Donne, Dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral in Lond…

The Persian Hidden Words

by Bahá'U'Lláh Read by Nicholas James Bridgewater 5
Kalimát-i-Maknúnih (کلمات مکنونه) or The Hidden Words is a book written in Baghdad around 1857 by Bahá'u'lláh, t…

Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Teachers

by Elbert Hubbard Read by Luke Sartor 4.6
Elbert Hubbard describes the homes of authors, poets, social reformers and other prestigious people, reflecting on how their surroundings ma…

Common Sense

by Yoritomo Tashi Read by Thomas Rose 4.6
One of three seminal philosophical works by the twelfth century Japanese Shogun, Yoritomo-Tashi. (From the Preface) He knows how to clothe…

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

by United Nations Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was ratified in 1948 by the United Nations General Assembly. It defines the fundamental rights of …

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