Philosopher Biography

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    • Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
    • By: Sarah Bakewell
    • Narrated by: Davina Porter
    • Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 627 ratings
    • This question obsessed Renaissance writers, none more than Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, perhaps the first recognizably modern individual....

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    • The Restless Life of Søren Kierkegaard
    • By: Clare Carlisle
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 08-18-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 71 ratings
    • Søren Kierkegaard is one of the most passionate and challenging of all modern philosophers, and is often regarded as the founder of existentialism. Over about a decade in the 1840s and 1850s, writings poured from his pen pursuing the question of existence....

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    • Da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Borgia and the World They Shaped
    • By: Paul Strathern
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 11-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 87 ratings
    • Leonardo da Vinci, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Cesare Borgia - three iconic figures whose intersecting lives provide the basis for this astonishing work of narrative history....

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    • A Spiritual Life
    • By: Scott M. Marshall
    • Narrated by: Dan John Miller
    • Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 10-24-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 102 ratings
    • Never before has a book like this one delved into the spiritual odyssey of cultural icon Bob Dylan. Tracking an American original - from his Jewish roots to his controversial embrace of Jesus....

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    • How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch Revolutionized Ethics
    • By: Benjamin J.B. Lipscomb
    • Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
    • Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 07-26-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • Drawing on a cluster of recently opened archives and extensive correspondence and interviews with those who knew them best, Benjamin Lipscomb traces the lives and ideas of four friends who gave us a better way to think about ethics, and ourselves....

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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 189 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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    • The Life of Aleister Crowley
    • By: Richard Kaczynski
    • Narrated by: Alan Irving
    • Length: 30 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A rigorously researched biography, Perdurabo paints a memorable portrait of the founder of modern magick, as well as a study of the occult, sexuality, Eastern religion, and more.

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    • The First Conservative
    • By: Jesse Norman
    • Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 11-18-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • Edmund Burke is both the greatest and the most underrated political thinker of the past three hundred years....

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    • C. S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of Life
    • By: Dr. Armand M. Nicholi Jr.
    • Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
    • Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 510 ratings
    • Renowned psychiatrist and educator Armand Nicholi here presents a fascinating comparison of the beliefs of Sigmund Freud and C. S. Lewis....

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    • By: Paul Strathern
    • Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
    • Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
    • Release date: 09-19-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 612 ratings
    • Spinoza's system and conclusions have compelling beauty unequaled in the history of philosophy....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Oliver Gloag
    • Narrated by: Graham Halstead
    • Length: 4 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 05-12-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • Few would question that Albert Camus, novelist, playwright, philosopher and journalist, is a major cultural icon. In this Very Short Introduction, Oliver Gloag chronicles the inspiring story of Camus' life....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Michael Tanner
    • Narrated by: Christine Williams
    • Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 06-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • 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....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Andrew Bowie
    • Narrated by: Peter Noble
    • Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 08-26-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • T. W. Adorno (1903-1969) was a German philosopher and social and cultural theorist. This Very Short Introduction covers Adorno's work and life, explaining his key philosophical concepts and the philosophical background and historical context of Adorno's thinking....

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    • Letters from a Stoic (All 124 Letters), Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, The Enchiridion, Of Peace of Mind, Of Anger, Of Providence, The Discourses of Epictetus, The Golden Sayings of Epictetus, Fragments Attributed to Epictetus, Lives of the Eminent Philosophers: The Stoics, & Marcus Aurelius Biography
    • By: Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, John Lord
    • Narrated by: Museum Audiobooks cast
    • Length: 51 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 74 ratings
    • Stoicism, a school of Hellenistic thought founded in Athens in the third century BC, was one of the most sublime philosophies in the history of Western civilization. It is a way of living that focuses on reality instead of fantasy or idealism....

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    • The Life of Kurt Gödel
    • By: Stephen Budiansky
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 140 ratings
    • The first major biography of the logician and mathematician whose incompleteness theorems helped launch a modern scientific revolution....

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    • How William James Can Save Your Life
    • By: John Kaag
    • Narrated by: Daniel Henning
    • Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 03-20-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 86 ratings
    • From the celebrated author of American Philosophy: A Love Story and Hiking with Nietzsche, a compelling introduction to the life-affirming philosophy of William James....

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    • By: C.G. Jung
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 16 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,148 ratings
    • In 1957, four years before his death, Carl Gustav Jung, psychiatrist and psychologist, began writing his life story. But what started as an exercise in autobiography soon morphed into an altogether more profound undertaking.

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    • How One Becomes What One Is
    • By: Friedrich Nietzsche
    • Narrated by: Steven Van Doren
    • Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 08-03-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 366 ratings
    • Ecce homo, "behold the man", are the words Friedrich Nietzsche chose as the title for his literary self-portrait....

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    • By: Paul Strathern
    • Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
    • Length: 1 hr and 21 mins
    • Release date: 09-16-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 458 ratings
    • We see our age as the greatest in human history, filled with seemingly unending originality. Yet such dynamism is not a necessary characteristic of great eras....

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