Philosophy audiobooks
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
by Henry David ThoreauDisgusted over slavery and Mexican War, Henry David Thoreau thorough his essay On the Duty of Civil Disobedience states honest men must rebel against Government which is primarily a force of corruption and its decisions need not to be right always. We should not allow the Government to make us the agents of injustice by supporting all acts of it. N..
The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana
by VatsyayanaThe Kama Sutra is an ancient prose work written by Vatsyayana. While it is often misunderstood by western world as erotic literature, it is primarily a guide to gracious living and attaining goal of life named as Karma. It is largely divided into seven parts as General remarks, Amorous advances/sexual union, Acquiring a wife, Duties and privileges ..
Anticipations
by H. G. WellsH.G. Wells explores the influence of the scientific innovations in every aspects of human life including education, business, work, politics and philosophy through his philosophical work Anticipations with its full title reads as "Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human Life and Thought". His thoughts are expr..
What I Believe
by Graf Leo TolstoyWhat I Believe is Leo Tolstoy’s follow-up to A Confession in which he describes his profound existential crisis. In A Confession Tolstoy describes how, at age 50, when he was at the height of his worldly success, he became so depressed that he wanted to commit suicide. In desperation he turned to the Orthodox church of his childhood and discovered ..
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
by Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheThus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None is a book written during the 1880s by the German philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche. Hard to categorise, the work is a treatise on philosophy, a masterly work of literature, in parts a collection of poetry and in others a parody of and amendment to the Bible. Consisting largely of speeches by the book's..
Genealogy of Morals
by Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheOn the Genealogy of Morality: A Polemic is an 1887 book by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. It consists of a preface and three interrelated treatises that expand and follow through on concepts Nietzsche sketched out in Beyond Good and Evil...
Poetics
by AristotleAristotle's Poetics from the 4th century B.C. aims to give a short study of storytelling. It discusses things like unity of plot, reversal of situation, and character in the context of Greek tragedy, comedy and epic poetry. But it still applies today. It is especially popular with screenwriters as seen in many script gurus’ how-to books. (Summary b..
Categories
by AristotleThe Categories is a text from Aristotle's Organon that enumerates all the possible kinds of things that can be the subject or the predicate of a proposition. They are "perhaps the single most heavily discussed of all Aristotelian notions". The work is brief enough to be divided, not into books as is usual with Aristotle's works, but into fifteen ch..