Philosophy

Omens and Superstitions of Southern India

by Edgar Thurston Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
Omens and Superstitions of Southern India explores the rich tapestry of beliefs and practices that shape the psychical life of the people in…

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…

Passages from the Life of a Philosopher

by Charles Babbage Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Some men write their lives to save themselves from ennui, careless of the amount they inflict on their readers. Others write their personal …

On the Heavens

by Aristotle Read by Geoffrey Edwards 3.6
On the Heavens (Greek: Περί ουρανού, Latin: De Caelo or De Caelo et Mundo) is Aristotle's chief cosmological treatise. In it Aristotle argue…

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…

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…

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

Vivekachudamani

by Rajanikant Chandwadkar 4.8
Android phone users can now listen to this Viveka Chudamani Audiobook on the go without having to download audio files. An app has been deve…

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…

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…

Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution

by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Read by Christian Pecaut 3.5
In the heat of the failed 1905 revolution in Russia, Lenin here contrasts the precision of the Bolshevik political program and tactics with …

Ancient Greek Philosopher-Scientists

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.7
The Pre-Socratic Greek philosophers, that is, the philosopher-scientists who lived before or contemporaneously to Socrates, were the first m…

Who Am I

by Rajanikant Chandwadkar 4.6
Android phone users can now listen to this audiobook on the go without having to download audio files. An app has been developed and is avai…

Human Sacrifice

by John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton Read by Jeff Allen 5
This was one of Lord Acton's essays, that was in response to the publication of the letters between Sir Robert Peel and Lord Macaulay. Lord…

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…

Short Nonfiction Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.7
Twenty-one short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. "We must learn to dignify common labor." Booker T. Washington spoke plain…

Short Nonfiction Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Seventeen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include Nature and Science--fall scenery,…

Not Yet my Soul

by Robert Louis Stevenson Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Not Yet my Soul is a reflective poem by Robert Louis Stevenson that explores the themes of existence, longing, and the human spirit. Through…

The Arabic Hidden Words

by Bahá'U'Lláh Read by Nicholas James Bridgewater 5
Kalimát-i-Maknúnih or The Hidden Words is a book written in Baghdad around 1857 by Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of t…

The Problem of Truth

by Herbert Wildon Carr Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.2
A problem of philosophy is completely different from a problem of science. In science we accept our subject-matter as it is presented in una…

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