Philosophy

Lysis

by Plato Read by Geoffrey Edwards 4.2
Lysis is a philosophical dialogue by Plato that delves into the nature of friendship and love, exploring the complex relationships between i…

The Greek View of Life

by Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson Read by Martin Geeson 4.3
“With the Greek civilisation beauty perished from the world. Never again has it been possible for man to believe that harmony is in fact the…

Lectures on Landscape

by John Ruskin Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
Lectures on Landscape presents a thought-provoking exploration of landscape painting through the eyes of John Ruskin, a prominent artist and…

Offences Against One's Self

by Jeremy Bentham Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) was an English jurist, philosopher, and legal and social reformer. He was a political radical and a leading theor…

Philosophical Rudiments Concerning Government and Society

by Thomas Hobbes Read by Jeffrey Church 4.6
De Cive ("On the citizen") is one of Thomas Hobbes's major works. "The book was published originally in Latin from Paris in 1…

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…

Philebus

by Plato Read by Geoffrey Edwards 4.5
Philebus is a philosophical dialogue by Plato that delves into the nature of pleasure and wisdom, exploring their roles in the good life. Se…

Menexenus

by Plato Read by Geoffrey Edwards 4.6
Menexenus is a thought-provoking dialogue by Plato that explores themes of memory, rhetoric, and the nature of civic duty. In this work, Soc…

Culture and Anarchy

by Matthew Arnold Read by Nicole Lee 4.6
Culture and Anarchy is a series of periodical essays by Matthew Arnold, first published in Cornhill Magazine 1867-68 and collected as a book…

Winds of Doctrine

by George Santayana Read by Expatriate 5
Even before the Great War turned the world upside down, Western civilization was being revolutionized at all levels: intellectually, philos…

Bacon

by Richard William Church Read by Bill Boerst 4.3
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…

Tusculan Disputations

by Marcus Tullius Cicero Read by Geoffrey Edwards 3.9
Tusculan Disputations (Latin: TUSCULANARUM DISPUTATIONUM) is divided into five books which discuss death, pain, grief, perturbations and vir…

Thus Spake Zarathustra

by Friedrich Nietzsche Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844–1900) was a nineteenth-century German philosopher. He wrote critical texts on religion, morality, contempo…

On the Nature of Things

by Titus Lucretius Carus Read by Daniel Vimont 3.6
On the Nature of Things, written in the first century BCE by Titus Lucretius Carus, is one of the principle expositions on Epicurean philoso…

Beacon Lights of History

by John Lord Read by KHand 3.8
The first of 14 volumes, this book discusses ancient civilization looking primarily at religion and philosophy. Summary by KHand

Magna Moralia

by Aristotle Read by Geoffrey Edwards 4.3
Magna Moralia, often translated as Great Ethics, is a profound exploration of ethical philosophy attributed to Aristotle, though its authors…

Of Peace of Mind

by Lucius Annaeus Seneca Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Of Peace of Mind is a profound exploration of tranquility in the face of life's inevitable challenges, penned by the Stoic philosopher Senec…

The Morals

by Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
The Moralia (loosely translatable as "Matters relating to customs") of the 1st-century Greek scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea is an e…

The Life of the Spirit and the Life of Today

by Evelyn Underhill Read by Mary Reagan 4.2
Underhill emphasizes the practical, here-and-now nature of spiritual life. She argues that spirituality is a genuine and abiding human fact,…

Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy

by George Santayana Read by Gary Gilberd 4.7
Before the beginning of World War II, during the time of the Modernist movement in philosophy, George Santayana wrote these five descriptive…

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