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PT-symmetric Quantum Mechanics
In
Oxford Physics Public Lectures
Read by Carl Bender
Various
University of Oxford Podcasts
The Art of Controversy (or: The Art of Being Right)
Read by Carl Manchester
Arthur Schopenhauer
The Art of Controversy (or The Art of Being Right) (Die Kunst, Recht zu Behalten) is a short treatise written in 1831 by the German philosop…
Wage-Labour and Capital
Read by Carl Manchester
Karl Marx
Originally written as a series of newspaper articles in 1847, Wage-Labour and Capital was intended to give an overview of Marx’s central the…
God and the State
Read by Carl Manchester
Mikhail Bakunin
Bakunin's most famous work, published in various lengths, this version is the most complete form of the work published hitherto.Originally t…
Eleven Theses on Feuerbach
Read by Carl Manchester
Karl Marx
The “Theses on Feuerbach” are eleven short philosophical notes written by Karl Marx in 1845. They outline a critique of the ideas of Marx’s …
Aphorisms
Read by Carl Manchester
Oscar Wilde
In 1894, Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) published two collections of aphorisms: A Few Maxims For The Instruction Of The Over-Educated, in the Sa…
Has a Frog a Soul?
Read by Carl Manchester
Thomas Henry Huxley
Thomas Huxley, known as “Darwin’s Bulldog” for his championing and development of Darwinism, was perhaps the most important Victorian biolog…
The Unreality of Time
Read by Carl Manchester
John Mctaggart
John McTaggart was a British metaphysician and philosophical idealist. In this famous article for the periodical Mind, he introduced the not…
The Parasite
Read by Carl Vonnoh, III
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Being a physiologist, Austin Gilroy is unconvinced that the occult is real. His friend Professor Wilson, however, is not only convinced that…
The Essays of Francis Bacon
Read by Carl Vonnoh, III
Francis Bacon
and
Sir Francis Bacon
Voltaire was an atheist. Diderot was Enlightened. But trite titles seldom encompass completely the beliefs of any individual. And this one f…
Cobb's Anatomy
Read by Carl Vonnoh, III
Irvin S. Cobb
Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb was born on June 23, 1876. At seventeen years of age, he began writing for the Paducah Daily News, his hometown paper…
3
In
The Sayings of Confucius
Read by Carl Manchester
Confucius 孔子
Promoting virtues such as filial devotion, compassion, loyalty, and propriety, these dialogues between the ancient Chinese philosopher Confu…
Ch 3 – Of Individuality
In
On Liberty
Read by Carl Manchester
John Stuart Mill
Published in 1859, On Liberty details Mill's view that individuals should be left wholly free to engage in any activity, thought or belief t…
Bk 1: Song V: Boethius' Prayer, and section V
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The Consolation of Philosophy
Read by Carl Manchester
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (transl. James)
and
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
Consolation of Philosophy (Latin: Consolatio Philosophiae) is a philosophical work by Boethius written in about the year 524 AD. It has been…
Chapter 2: The Prevailing Opinion Of a Sexual Character Discussed
In
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Read by Carl Manchester
Mary Wollstonecraft
Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) is best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, in which she argued that women are not naturally inferior…
War in West Virginia
In
The Autobiography of Mother Jones
Read by Carl Manchester
Mother Jones
and
Mary Harris Jones
Mother Jones (Mary Harris Jones) was a legendary labor organizer. She was a founding member of the International Workers of the World (the I…
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Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus
Read by Carl Cravens
Mary Shelley
Victor Frankenstein discovers the secret of animating lifeless matter and, by assembling body parts, creates the monster who has no name in …