Philosophy
Omega
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Camille Flammarion
Omega: The Last Days of the World is a science fiction novel published in 1894 by Camille Flammarion. On 25th century Earth, a comet made mo…
What Is Love?
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Ernest Dowson
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of What Is Love? by Ernest Dowson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 15, 2012.Ernest C…
Religio Medici and Hydriotaphia
Read by Nicole Lee
Thomas Browne
Religio Medici (The Religion of a Doctor) sets out Sir Thomas Browne's spiritual testament as well as being an early psychological self-port…
The Birth of Tragedy
Read by John Van Stan
Friedrich Nietzsche
This is one of Nietzsche's early academic writings - a scholarly theory about Ancient Greek theatre, specifically tragedies. In a nutshell, …
The Arabic Hidden Words
Read by Nicholas James Bridgewater
Bahá'U'Lláh
Kalimát-i-Maknúnih or The Hidden Words is a book written in Baghdad around 1857 by Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of t…
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
Read by Michael Armenta
Omar Khayyám
One of the greatest works of poetry in history, this lyric poem presents the deep feelings and emotions of the poet on subjects such as life…
Good Sense
Read by Roger Melin
Baron Paul Henri Thiry D' Holbach and Paul Henri Thiry, Baron D'Holbach
In 1770, Baron D'Holbach published his masterpiece, "Systeme de la Nature", which for a long time passed as the posthumous work of…
The Life of the Spirit and the Life of Today
Read by Mary Reagan
Evelyn Underhill
Underhill emphasizes the practical, here-and-now nature of spiritual life. She argues that spirituality is a genuine and abiding human fact,…
Culture and Anarchy
Read by Nicole Lee
Matthew Arnold
Culture and Anarchy is a series of periodical essays by Matthew Arnold, first published in Cornhill Magazine 1867-68 and collected as a book…
A Ballade of Suicide
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G. K. Chesterton
LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of A Ballade of Suicide by G. K. Chesterton. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 20,…
The Life of Reason
Read by Fredrik Karlsson
George Santayana
The Life of Reason, subtitled "the Phases of Human Progress", is a book published in five volumes from 1905 to 1906, by Spanish-bo…
Fishing with a Worm
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Bliss Perry
Fishing with a Worm by Bliss Perry includes the poignant and philosophical observations of a fly fisherman lured by the worm. Bliss Perry wa…
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…
Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous
Read by Geoffrey Edwards
George Berkeley
Berkeley uses Hylas as his primary contemporary philosophical adversary, John Locke. A Hylas is featured in Greek mythology and the name Hyl…
The Wit and Humor of America
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Various
The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the sixth volume, 55 short stories and poems have been gathered from 42 authors…
Religion and Science from Galileo to Bergson
Read by Laurie Anne Walden
John Charlton Hardwick
This history of Western philosophy, published in 1920, explores how people have explained the natural world during the last few centuries, w…
Magna Moralia
Read by Geoffrey Edwards
Aristotle
Magna Moralia (Ancient Greek: ΗΟΙΚΩΝ ΜΕΓΑΛΩΝ, English: Great Ethics) discusses topics including friendship, virtue, happiness and God. It is…
An Old Man's Thought of School
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Walt Whitman
LibriVox volunteers bring you 23 recordings of An Old Man's Thought of School by Walt Whitman. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for F…
Unto this Last
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John Ruskin
John Ruskin (1819 – 1900) is best known for his work as an art critic and social critic, but is remembered as an author, poet and artist as …
The Birth of Tragedy
Read by Jim Locke
Friedrich Nietzsche
In this famous early work of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, he investigates the artistic characteristics of Apollonian (reason) and…