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    The Quest for Character

    What the Story of Socrates and Alcibiades Teaches Us about Our Search for Good Leaders

    by Massimo Pigliucci ...
    Narrated by Alan Carlson ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 54 min

    What Socrates’s greatest failure reveals about an ancient question: Can we teach our leaders to be better people?Is good character something that can be taught? In 430 BCE, Socrates set out to teach the vain, power-seeking Athenian statesman Alcibiades how to be a good person—and failed spectacularly. Alcibiades went on to beguile his city into a hopeless war with Syracuse, and all of Athens paid ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    Eclectic

    A Journey of Collection in Space, Time and Spirit

    by Kurt Albert John Matthia ...
    Narrated by Kurt Albert John Matthia ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 56 min

    Eclectic is autobiographical and intended to turn the reader from an intuitively causal view (today’s predominantly naturalistic view) of their personal journey through the Cosmos to seeing the journey rather as counter-intuitively being a teleological journey. Eclectic emerges from a diffuse, seemingly causal beginning. The book seemingly has no hope of a destination until it finds a spine ... Read more

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    Old Path White Clouds

    Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha

    by Thich Nhat Hanh ...
    Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 40 min

    Old Path White Clouds presents the life and teachings of Gautama Buddha. Drawn directly from twenty-four Pali, Sanskrit, and Chinese sources, and retold by Thich Nhat Hanh in his inimitably beautiful style, this book traces the Buddha’s life slowly and gently over the course of eighty years, partly through the eyes of Svasti, the buffalo boy, and partly through the eyes of the Buddha himself. Old ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    The Price of Peace

    Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes

    by Zachary D. Carter ...
    Narrated by Robert Petkoff ...

    Unabridged

    22 hours 50 min

    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An “outstanding new intellectual biography of John Maynard Keynes [that moves] swiftly along currents of lucidity and wit” (The New York Times), illuminating the world of the influential economist and his transformative ideas“A timely, lucid and compelling portrait of a man whose enduring relevance is always heightened when crisis strikes.”—The Wall Street Journal* ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

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    Keep Moving

    And Other Tips and Truths about Aging

    by Dick Van Dyke, Todd Gold ...
    Narrated by Dick Van Dyke ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 20 min

    In this entertaining and inspirational memoir, Hollywood legend Dick Van Dyke shares his secret to staying resilient in old age.Beloved Hollywood icon Dick Van Dyke will celebrate his ninetieth birthday in December 2015. He’s an established legend, having starred in Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and The Dick Van Dyke Show. And yet he’s still keeping himself busy, entertaining America on ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    The Story of Philosophy

    The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers

    by Will Durant ...
    Narrated by Grover Gardner ...

    Unabridged

    19 hours 28 min

    The product of eleven years of research, The Story of Philosophy is an endlessly inspiring and instructive chronicle of the world’s greatest thinkers, from Socrates to Santayana. Written with exacting and scrupulous scholarship, it was designed both to command the respect of educators and to capture the interest of the layman.Durant lucidly describes the philosophical systems of such world-famous ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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    Savage Messiah

    How Dr. Jordan Peterson Is Saving Western Civilization

    by Jim Proser ...
    Narrated by Jim Proser, Danny Campbell ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 39 min

    **This program includes an introduction read by the author.A fascinating biography and in-depth look at the work of bestselling writer and psychologist Dr. Jordan Peterson, by award-winning author Jim Proser.**Who is psychologist, professor, bestselling author, and YouTube personality Dr. Peterson? What does he believe in? Who are his followers? And why is he so controversial? These are among the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    Nietzsche

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Michael Tanner ...
    Narrated by Christine Williams ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 35 min

    With his well-known idiosyncrasies and aphoristic style, Friedrich Nietzsche is always bracing and provocative, and temptingly easy to dip into. Michael Tanner's introduction to the philosopher's life and work examines the numerous ambiguities inherent in his writings and explodes many of the misconceptions that have grown in the hundred years since Nietzsche wrote "do not, above all, confound me ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    The Polymath

    A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag

    by Peter Burke ...
    Narrated by Nigel Patterson ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 48 min

    The first history of the western polymath, from the fifteenth century to the present day From Leonardo Da Vinci to John Dee and Comenius, from George Eliot to Oliver Sacks and Susan Sontag, polymaths have moved the frontiers of knowledge in countless ways. But history can be unkind to scholars with such encyclopaedic interests. All too often these individuals are remembered for just one part of ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    Maimonides and St. Thomas Aquinas: The Lives and Works of the Middle Ages’ Most Influential Religious Philosophers

    by Charles River Editors ...
    Narrated by Colin Fluxman ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 10 min

    Moses Ben Maimon, frequently called Maimonides, was a medieval philosopher who revolutionized thinking about ethics, reason, and the Jewish Torah through his emphasis on reason and evidence. His works were broadly accepted by the Sephardi Jewish community and spread across the medieval world, reaching the Jewish populations as far as Yemen, and though he lived in the 12th century, Maimonides ... Read more

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    Simply Hegel

    by Robert L. Wicks ...
    Narrated by Angus Freathy ...
    Audiobook 18 - Great Lives

    Unabridged

    3 hours 47 min

    Born in Stuttgart, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) attended the Gymnasium Illustre and, at the age of 18, entered the Tübingen Seminary, from which he received his theological certificate in 1793. His early writings, composed while he was serving as a family tutor in Bern and Frankfurt, dealt with religious subjects. From 1801 until his untimely death thirty years later, Hegel held ... Read more

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    In Arthur's Nature

    The Novel of a Philosopher Pushed to the Edge and the Woman He Pushed over It

    by J.T. Frederick ...
    Narrated by Matt ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 10 min

    In 1831, philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer pushed his neighbour down the stairs of their Frankfurt residence. Inspired by this true event and his actual writings, the novel reimagines the life of the fractured thinker as it blurs the boundaries between Arthur's theoretical beliefs and his physical existence.Caroline Marquet, a talented painter, has endured her own dark past, but her future is about ... Read more

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    Be Like the Fox

    Machiavelli In His World

    by Erica Benner ...
    Narrated by Karen Saltus ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 30 min

    The dramatic, myth-shattering story of how Machiavelli-arguably the most misunderstood thinker of all time-fought to change his corrupt world. Since the publication of The Prince five centuries ago, Machiavelli has been associated with political amorality. But that characterization is unfair. In Be Like the Fox, Erica Benner sets the record straight: far from the ruthless “Machiavellian” henchman ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

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    Montaigne

    by Stefan Zweig ...
    Narrated by Tyler Boss ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 52 min

    "The others form the human being, I depict him; and here I present an individual who is quite poorly formed and whom I would certainly make largely differently if I had to reshape him. But now that's the way he is." This phrase from the famous essays of Michel de Montaigne outlines the character of the author and his work. Montaigne wrote his essays not from a position of certainty but an from ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Confucius in 90 Minutes

    by Paul Strathern ...
    Narrated by Simon Vance ...
    series The Philosophers in 90 Minutes Series

    Unabridged

    1 hour 16 min

    Confucius taught a moral wisdom that would become a predominant social force in China from the second century BCE until the mid-twentieth century. It would appear that his aim was to turn his pupils into good government officials, but his quaint humanistic platitudes, maxims, and quasi-enigmatic anecdotes made spiritual fodder for the next two thousand years of the culture.In Confucius in 90 ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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    Jena 1800

    The Republic of Free Spirits

    by Peter Neumann ...
    Narrated by Christa Lewis ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 9 min

    Around the turn of the nineteenth century, a steady stream of young German poets and thinkers coursed to the town of Jena to make history. The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars had dealt a one-two punch to the dynastic system. Confidence in traditional social, political, and religious norms had been replaced by a profound uncertainty that was as terrifying for some as it was exhilarating ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    The Great Guide

    What David Hume Can Teach Us about Being Human and Living Well

    by Julian Baggini ...
    Narrated by David Rintoul ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 53 min

    This audiobook narrated by David Rintoul shares i****nvaluable wisdom on living a good life from one of the Enlightenment's greatest philosophersDavid Hume (1711–1776) is perhaps best known for his ideas about cause and effect and his criticisms of religion, but he is rarely thought of as a philosopher with practical wisdom to offer. Yet Hume's philosophy is grounded in an honest assessment of ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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    George Müller - Ein Vater der Waisen

    Ein Lebensbild von Marie von Koenneritz

    by Marie von Koenneritz, Marie von Koenneritz, Permission Verlag ...
    Narrated by Eduard Janzen ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 15 min

    George Müller ist ein besonderes Vorbild in der Gemeinde Jesu. Er besaß ein Vertrauen zu Gott und zu Seinen Verheißungen, das in ihm eine aktive Liebe zu seinen Mitmenschen weckte und ihm den Mut verlieh, sich ganz und gar Gottes Fürsorge zu überlassen. Marie von Koenneritz war eine Zeitzeugin dessen, was Gott durch George Müller, den Leiter mehrerer Waisenhäuser in Bristol und auch weltweit ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Hegel in 90 Minutes

    by Paul Strathern ...
    Narrated by Simon Vance ...
    series The Philosophers in 90 Minutes Series

    Unabridged

    1 hour 16 min

    Hegel’s dialectical method produced the most grandiose metaphysical system known to man. Its most vital element was the dialectic of the thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. This sprung from Hegel’s aim to overcome the deficiencies of logic and ascend toward Mind as the ultimate reality. His view of history as a process of humanity’s self-realization inspired Marx to synthesize his philosophy of ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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    Schopenhauer

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Christopher Janaway ...
    Narrated by Kyle Munley ...

    Unabridged

    1 min

    Schopenhauer is considered to be the most readable of German philosophers. This book gives a succinct explanation of his metaphysical system, concentrating on the original aspects of his thought, which inspired many artists and thinkers including Nietzsche, Wagner, Freud, and Wittgenstein. Schopenhauer's central notion is that of the will-a blind, irrational force that he uses to interpret both ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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    Unnatural Separations

    A Brief Memoir About Spiritual Transformation in An Academic World

    by Laura Clementz ...
    Narrated by Laura Clementz ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 21 min

    Join Laura on a secret intellectual and spiritual story. She experienced a series of intense dreams and spiritual interludes that seemed easier and more appropriate to ignore. Finally, it all catches-up with her as she never stops feeling driven to make sense of these experiences. She finds herself on a quest to utilize opportunities within her career to apply the broadest of philosophical ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Autobiography of John Stuart Mill

    by John Stuart Mill ...
    Narrated by Noah Waterman ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 58 min

    Mill’s autobiography deals with but one part of a life, the life of the mind-but a mind that ranks as one of the most remarkable and significant of the nineteenth century. The book memorably depicts the emergence of a brilliant child prodigy, the product of an extraordinary education that both hastened his development and brought him to the brink of suicide by the age of twenty-one; illumined with ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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    Guíaburros: ¿Con qué filósofo te quedas?

    Historia del pensamiento filosófico

    by Daniel Torres ...
    Narrated by María José Bosch ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 33 min

    GuíaBurros ¿Con qué filósofo te quedas? es una recopilación de grandes pensadores que han aparecido a lo largo de los tiempos. Una guía perfecta para iniciarse en la filosofía o entender cómo algunos pensadores se relacionan con otros anteriores a su época. Un libro indicado para los interesados en filosofía, para aquellos que es la primera vez que leen algo de filosofía, o para aquellos que ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Apollonius of Tyana: The Life and Legacy of the Influential Ancient Greek Philosopher

    by Charles River Editors ...
    Narrated by Colin Fluxman ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 14 min

    Even after Greek power waned, the Romans borrowed Greek culture, so it should come as little surprise that various Greeks continued to be influential in antiquity. In fact, if people in the 3rd century CE were asked which religious or philosophical figure from the 1st century CE was most likely to found or inspire a global religion that would attract millions of followers and last for centuries, ... Read more

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