Philosophy

Auguste Comte and Positivism

by John Stuart Mill Read by Bill Boerst 4.8
Part 1 lays out the framework for Positivism as originated in France by Auguste Comte in his Cours de Philosophie Positive. Mill examines th…

The Vocation of the Scholar

by Johann Gottlieb Fichte Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.9
The Vocation of the Scholar presents a series of profound lectures by Johann Gottlieb Fichte, a pivotal figure in German idealism. Delivered…

Introduction to David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature

by Peter Millican 5
Dr Peter Millican gives a series of lectures looking at Scottish 18th Century Philosopher David Hume and the first book of his Treatise of H…

Theaetetus

by Plato Read by Geoffrey Edwards 4.3
Theaetetus is a profound dialogue by Plato that delves into the nature of knowledge and perception. Through a conversation between Socrates …

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

by John Locke Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
This is the fourth book of John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding. His book deals with knowledge and probability. He asks how far…

A Philosophical Enquiry

by Edmund Burke Read by ej 4.3
Burke's A Philosophical Enquiry is an important treatise in the history of philosophical aesthetics, putting forth a theory of two concepts …

The Symposium

by Plato Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
In one of Plato's more accessible works, Apollodorus tells a friend about a drinking party (or symposium) attended by many of intellectuals …

Social Statics

by Herbert Spencer Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
Social Statics, or The Conditions essential to Happiness specified, and the First of them Developed is an 1851 book by the British polymath …

Philebus

by Plato Read by Geoffrey Edwards 4.5
Philebus is a philosophical dialogue by Plato that delves into the nature of pleasure and wisdom, exploring their roles in the good life. Se…

Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous

by George Berkeley Read by Geoffrey Edwards 4.7
Berkeley uses Hylas as his primary contemporary philosophical adversary, John Locke. A Hylas is featured in Greek mythology and the name Hyl…

The Nicomachean Ethics

by Aristotle Read by Geoffrey Edwards 4.1
The Nicomachean Ethics is Aristotle's foundational text on ethics, exploring the nature of the good life and the virtues necessary for achie…

Prior Analytics

by Aristotle Read by Geoffrey Edwards 4.6
Prior Analytics is the third of Aristotle's six texts on logic which are collectively known as the Organon ("Instrument"). In Prio…

Areopagitica

by John Milton Read by Thomas A. Copeland 4.6
The noblest and most extensive defense of freedom of the press in English. Although Milton was sufficiently practical to serve as a censor o…

Summa Theologica

by Saint Thomas Aquinas Read by M.S.C. Lambert, LC 5
The Summa Theologica (or the Summa Theologiae or simply the Summa, written 1265–1274) is the most famous work of Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–127…

Euthydemus

by Plato Read by Geoffrey Edwards 4.5
Euthydemus is a thought-provoking dialogue by Plato that delves into the art of argumentation and the nature of wisdom. In this engaging exc…

A Defence of Idealism

by May Sinclair Read by Expatriate 4.9
The philosophy of Idealism, revived in eighteenth-century Europe by George Berkeley, argued against philosophical materialism by maintaining…

Ion

by Plato Read by Simon-Peter Zak 4.3
Ion is a thought-provoking dialogue by Plato that delves into the nature of art, inspiration, and the role of the artist. Set in ancient Gre…

Thoughts are Things

by Prentice Mulford Read by Linda Andrus 4.6
Thoughts are Things by Prentice Mulford explores the profound impact of our thoughts on our lives and the world around us. As a foundational…

Lectures on Landscape

by John Ruskin Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
Lectures on Landscape presents a thought-provoking exploration of landscape painting through the eyes of John Ruskin, a prominent artist and…

Philosophical Essays

by Bertrand Russell Read by Landon D. C. Elkind 4.7
Six out of seven essays appearing here were reprinted from other publications; indeed, this 1910 collection went out of print, so that two o…

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