Philosopher Biography

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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 75 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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    • 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 149 ratings
    • The first major biography of the logician and mathematician whose incompleteness theorems helped launch a modern scientific revolution....

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    • A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag
    • By: Peter Burke
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • 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....

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    • By: George Steiner
    • Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
    • Length: 6 hrs
    • Release date: 09-17-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 117 ratings
    • With characteristic lucidity and style, Steiner makes Heidegger's immensely difficult body of work accessible to the general reader.

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    • Machiavelli in His World
    • By: Erica Benner
    • Narrated by: Karen Saltus
    • Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • Since the publication of The Prince five centuries ago, Machiavelli has been associated with political amorality....

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    • By: Jonathan Sperber
    • Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
    • Length: 22 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 195 ratings
    • Jonathan Sperber, one of the United States' leading European historians, challenges many of our misconceptions of this political firebrand turned London journalist....

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    • A Life of Compassion Beyond Boundaries
    • By: Roshen Dalal
    • Narrated by: Suyash Mohan
    • Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Among the most famous visionaries of our times, J. Krishnamurti (1895-1986) continues to transform thought, lifestyles and education across continents more than three decades after his death....

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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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    • 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 517 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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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Julia Annas
    • Narrated by: Julia Whelan
    • Length: 2 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 06-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • This lively and accessible introduction to Plato focuses on the philosophy and argument of his writings, drawing the listener into Plato's way of doing philosophy, and the general themes of his thinking. It looks at Plato as a thinker grappling with philosophical problems....

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    • The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words
    • By: Albert Einstein
    • Narrated by: Henry Leyva
    • Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 03-07-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • An inspiring collection of essays, in which Albert Einstein addresses the topics that fascinated him as a scientist, philosopher, and humanitarian....

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    • A Life
    • By: Joanne Paul
    • Narrated by: Ben Miles
    • Length: 15 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • The definitive biography of the man who dominated political and intellectual circles in England during the sixteenth century: Thomas More.

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    • A Cautionary Tale of Sex Tourism, Drugs, Alcoholism, Addiction, Prostitution & Suicide
    • By: Paul Pisces
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
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    • Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
    • By: William Egginton
    • Narrated by: David Glass
    • Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 142 ratings
    • Argentine poet Jorge Luis Borges was madly in love when his life was shattered by painful heartbreak.

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    • The Life of Alain Locke
    • By: Jeffrey C. Stewart
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 45 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • In The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke, Jeffrey C. Stewart offers the definitive biography of the father of the Harlem Renaissance, based on the extant primary sources of his life and on interviews with those who knew him personally....

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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 2,189 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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    • 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 21 ratings
    • 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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    • Nicomachean Ethics, Politics, Metaphysics, Poetics, Rhetoric, On Sense and the Sensible, On Memory and Reminiscence, On Dreams, His Biography and All His Other Works
    • By: Aristotle
    • Narrated by: Ken Grezin
    • Length: 31 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 12-12-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • Discover the timeless works of Aristotle, one of the most influential philosophers, whose insights continue to shape modern thought. The Complete Aristotle Collection is your gateway to the teachings that have endured for over two millennia.

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