Modern Philosophy

Product List
    • An Ancient Guide to Wise Leadership
    • By: Plutarch, Jeffrey Beneker - translator
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
    • Length: 2 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 113 ratings
    • In "To an Uneducated Leader", "How to Be a Good Leader", and "Should an Old Man Engage in Politics?", Plutarch explains the characteristics of successful leaders, from being guided by reason and exercising self-control to being free from envy and the love of power....

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    • An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science and Spirituality
    • By: Ken Wilber
    • Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
    • Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 12-09-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 745 ratings
    • In A Theory of Everything, Wilber uses clear, nontechnical language to present complex, cutting-edge theories that integrate the realms of body, mind, soul, and spirit.....

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    • The World from the Twenties to the Nineties
    • By: Paul Johnson
    • Narrated by: Nadia May
    • Length: 37 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 11-29-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 451 ratings
    • This fast-paced, all-encompassing narrative history offers a full-scale, if controversial, analysis of how the modern age came into being and where it is heading....

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    • How the World Became Modern
    • By: Stephen Greenblatt
    • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
    • Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 09-29-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3,508 ratings
    • Greenblatt transports listeners to the dawn of the Renaissance and chronicles the life of an intrepid book lover who rescued a crucial Roman philosophical text from certain oblivion....

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    • By: Bertrand Russell
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 38 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 319 ratings
    • Hailed as “lucid and magisterial” by The Observer, this book is universally acclaimed as the outstanding one-volume work on the subject of Western philosophy....

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    • By: Brian Greene
    • Narrated by: Brian Greene
    • Length: 2 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 04-24-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 154 ratings
    • From renowned physicist and New York Times best-selling author Brian Greene comes the remarkable human quest to grasp how the universe came to be.

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    • By: Philip Ball
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
    • Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 12-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 205 ratings
    • An exhilarating tour of the contemporary quantum landscape, Beyond Weird is a book about what quantum physics really means - and what it doesn't....

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    • A History, a Philosophy, a Warning
    • By: Justin E. H. Smith
    • Narrated by: Tim Fannon
    • Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 03-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • Justin Smith offers an original deep history of the internet that tells the story of the centuries-old utopian dreams behind it - and explains why they have died today....

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    • An Ancient Guide to the Art of Cynicism (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Series)
    • By: Diogenes, M. D. Usher - translator
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 2 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 10-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • How to Say No is a delightful collection of brief ancient writings about Cynicism that captures all the outrageousness, wit, and wisdom of its remarkable cast of characters—from Diogenes in the fourth century BCE to the column-stander Symeon Stylites in late antiquity....

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    • By: Andrew Lynn
    • Narrated by: Pete Ferrand
    • Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Classic Philosophy for the Modern Man is unlike any other philosophy book you may have come across. It is inspired by a single concept: that, to thrive in the world, we need ready access to the practical wisdom of our forebears....

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    • A Modern Translation of the Bushido Shoshinshu of Taira Shigesuke
    • By: Thomas Cleary
    • Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
    • Length: 2 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 10-13-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 94 ratings
    • With a bright, conversational narrative by Thomas Cleary, this book is indispensable to corporate executives, students of Asian culture, martial artists, or anyone sincerely interested in Japan and its people....

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    • By: Hannah Arendt
    • Narrated by: Laural Merlington
    • Length: 20 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 10-23-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 62 ratings
    • Considered by many to be Hannah Arendt's greatest work, The Life of the Mind investigates thought itself, as it exists in contemplative life. This work was planned as three volumes that would explore the activities of the mind considered by Arendt to be fundamental....

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    • David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought
    • By: Dennis C. Rasmussen
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 05-22-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 195 ratings
    • Vividly written, The Infidel and the Professor is a compelling account of a great friendship of two towering Enlightenment thinkers that had great consequences for modern thought....

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    • MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
    • By: Ansgar Allen
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 05-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 48 ratings
    • Everyone's a cynic, yet few will admit it. Today's cynics excuse themselves half-heartedly - "I hate to be a cynic, but...." - before making their pronouncements. Narrowly opportunistic, always on the take, contemporary cynicism has nothing positive to contribute....

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    • An Ancient Guide to Using Our Time Wisely (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Series)
    • By: Seneca, James S. Romm - editor
    • Narrated by: Esther Wane
    • Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
    • Release date: 10-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • A vibrant new translation of Seneca's "On the Shortness of Life," a pointed reminder to make the most of our time....

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    • By: Albert Camus
    • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
    • Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 179 ratings
    • By one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is an essay on revolution. As old regimes throughout the world collapse, this classic resonates as an ardent, eloquent, and supremely rational voice of conscience for our tumultuous times....

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