LibriVox Audio Books Catalog (Page 3)

The title of the book comes from Luke 17:21. It is a non-fiction work of the famous Russian author Leo Tolstoy. He wrote it after many years…

The Kybalion

Read by Algy Pug

The Three Initiates

The Kybalion: Hermetic Philosophy is a 1908 book claiming to be the essence of the teachings of Hermes Trismegistus, published anonymously b…

The Twilight of the Idols

Read by D.E. Wittkower

Friedrich Nietzsche

Of The Twilight of the Idols, Nietzsche says in Ecce Homo: “If anyone should desire to obtain a rapid sketch of how everything before my tim…

Leviathan (Books I and II)

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Thomas Hobbes

Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil, commonly called Leviathan, is a book written in 1651…

Heretics

Read by Ray Clare

G. K. Chesterton

The Author Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in London, England on the 29th of May, 1874. Though he considered himself a mere "rollicki…

Ecce Homo

Read by TimSC

Friedrich Nietzsche

The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche's autobiography, Ecce Homo, was the last prose work that he wrote before his illness in 1889. Coming at …

Stoicism

Read by Leon Mire

St. George William Joseph Stock

This short book is part of the Philosophies Ancient and Modern series, which attempts to make Western philosophy more accessible to the gene…

Reflections on War and Death

Read by D.E. Wittkower

Sigmund Freud

Anyone, as Freud tells us in Reflections on War and Death, forced to react against his own impulses may be described as a hypocrite, whether…

Democracy in America Vol. I

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Alexis De Tocqueville

When Tocqueville visited America in the 1830s he found a thriving democracy of a kind he had not seen anywhere else. Many of his insightful …

Kitab Adab al-Dunya w'al-Din (The Ethics of Religion and of this World)

Read by Youssef Safiljil (Dr. Fighter)

Abu al-Hasan Ali Ibn Muhammad Ibn Habib al-Mawardi

Al-Mawardi (Alboacen) was one of the famous Islamic authors and jurists. He was a well-known man in the “Abbassid” empire—a mature thinker w…

Of the Shortness of Life

Read by Jonathan Hockey

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Seneca the Younger wrote the moral essay "De Brevitate Vitae" — "On the Shortness of Life" — to his friend Paulinus. The…

Meditations on First Philosophy

Read by D.E. Wittkower

René Descartes

After several years working on a treatise putting forth his mechanistic philosophy and physics, Descartes shelved the project when his conte…

The Prince (Version 3)

Read by Bob Neufeld

Niccolò Machiavelli

The Prince (Italian: Il Principe) is a political treatise by the Italian diplomat, historian and political theorist Niccolò Machiavel…

Two Treatises of Civil Government

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John Locke

The Two Treatises of Civil Government is a work of political philosophy published anonymously in 1689 by John Locke. The First Treatise is a…

The Joyful Wisdom (or: The Gay Science)

Read by TimSC

Friedrich Nietzsche

"The Joyful Wisdom," written in 1882, just before "Zarathustra," is rightly judged to be one of Nietzsche's best books. …

Anticipations

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H. G. Wells

Wells considered this book one of his most important, a natural follow-up to such works as his Man of the Year Million and The Time Machine.…

The Enchiridion of Epictetus

Read by D.E. Wittkower

Epictetus

Epictetus (Greek: Επίκτητος; c.55–c.135) was a Greek Stoic philosopher. The name given by his parents, if one was given, is not known - the …

The Apology of Socrates (version 3)

Read by Fr. Richard Zeile of Detroit

Plato

Plato's account of Socrates' defense at his trial for "corrupting the youth" is a classic summation of his teacher's life and miss…

The Tao Teh King

Read by Eric S. Piotrowski

Laozi 老子 and Lao Tzu

Lao-Tze's Tao Teh King illuminates The Tao: a guiding principle of the universe and all within it. By exploring the nature of dualities and …

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