Philosophy audiobooks

The Republic

by Plato

The Republic is a Socratic dialogue by Plato, written in approximately 380 BC. It is one of the most influential works of philosophy and political theory, and Plato's best known work...

Beyond Good and Evil is a a philosophical work by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche which is an expansion on the ideas of his earlier work, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, but focused from a more critical, polemical direction. Nietzsche attacks past philosophers for their alleged lack of critical sense and their blind acceptance of Christian premi..

The Antichrist

by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche's "The Antichrist" might be more aptly named "The Antichristian," for it is an unmitigated attack on Christianity that Nietzsche makes within the text instead of an exposition on evil or Satan as the title might suggest. In "The Antichrist," Nietzsche presents a highly controversial view of Christianity as a damaging influence u..

The Problems of Philosophy

by Bertrand Russell

The Problems of Philosophy is one of Bertrand Russell's attempts to create a brief and accessible guide to the problems of philosophy. Focusing on problems he believes will provoke positive and constructive discussion, Russell concentrates on knowledge rather than metaphysics: If it is uncertain that external objects exist, how can we then have kn..

The Age of Reason

by Thomas Paine

The Age of Reason, a philosophical work by Thomas Paine which challenges the Christianity and Bible texts. Though this topics are known to be discussed by educated elites, Paine's writing was so simple which can be understood by any one. Written in three parts which spanned across more than a decade from 1794 to 1807. Part 1 attacks the concept of ..

Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education

by John Dewey

Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education is a non-fiction work by the American Philosopher John Dewey. Dewey sought to at once synthesize, criticize, and expand upon the democratic (or proto-democratic) educational philosophies of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Plato. He saw Rousseau's philosophy as overemphasizing the ind..

Leviathan

by Thomas Hobbes

Leviathan is a political philosophical work by English philosopher Thomas Hobbes. Similar to Machiavelli's The Prince, this non-fiction work recommends a framework for good governance. The war of all against all would be the evil of the society, which can be prevented only by an undivided central government. This work has been divided into two volu..

On Liberty

by John Stuart Mill

One of the key texts on political philosophy, John Stuart Mill's On Liberty emphasizes the importance of individuality which he conceived as a prerequisite to the higher pleasures—the summum bonum of Utilitarianism. Furthermore, Mill criticised the errors of past attempts to defend individuality where, for example, democratic ideals resulted in the..