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Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: On the Shortness of Life: Stoic Principles for Self-Improvement Author: Seneca Narrator: Arthur Grey Format: Unabridged Length: 1 hr and 15 mins Language: English Release date: 12-29-17 Publisher: Bassett Publishing Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 8 votes Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy Publisher's Summary: De Brevitate Vitae (English: On the Shortness of Life), written sometime around the year 49 AD by Seneca the Younger, discusses many Stoic principles on the nature of time and humanity itself. Enjoy riveting discussions and perspectives on these themes as Seneca delves into your thoughts. You will be fascinated as you explore one of the greatest minds and his perception of how we should perceive time. Many of the truths you will find in this piece are not only timeless, but pertinent to humanity - even to this day. "People are frugal in guarding their personal property, but as soon as it comes to squandering time, they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy."

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Theory and Reality Subtitle: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science Author: Peter Godfrey-Smith Narrator: Matthew Lloyd Davies Format: Unabridged Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins Language: English Release date: 12-19-17 Publisher: Tantor Audio Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 3 votes Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy Publisher's Summary: How does science work? Does it tell us what the world is "really" like? What makes it different from other ways of understanding the universe? In Theory and Reality, Peter Godfrey-Smith addresses these questions by taking the listener on a grand tour of 100 years of debate about science. The result is a completely accessible introduction to the main themes of the philosophy of science. Intended for undergraduates and general audiences with no prior background in philosophy, Theory and Reality covers logical positivism; the problems of induction and confirmation; Karl Popper's theory of science; Thomas Kuhn and "scientific revolutions"; the views of Imre Lakatos, Larry Laudan, and Paul Feyerabend; and challenges to the field from sociology of science, feminism, and science studies. The book then looks in more detail at some specific problems and theories, including scientific realism, the theory-ladeness of observation, scientific explanation, and Bayesianism. Finally, Godfrey-Smith defends a form of philosophical naturalism as the best way to solve the main problems in the field. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio. Critic Reviews: "Godfrey-Smith presents a clear, comprehensive, and accessible introductory survey of the major problems and movements in the philosophy of science. It is an excellent book to use on its own in a lower-level philosophy of science course or as a supplement to some anthology of primary texts in a more sophisticated upper-level course. It would also suit anyone who has interest in the subject but little patience for jargon-heavy professional philosophy. His exposition is accented by insightful commentary and criticism, and by examples from the history of science all with a keen sense of humor." (Michael Veber, Science Education)

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: As a Man Thinketh Author: James Allen Narrator: Roberto Scarlato Format: Unabridged Length: 55 mins Language: English Release date: 12-12-17 Publisher: Dreamtown Publishing Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 11 votes Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy Publisher's Summary: As a Man Thinketh is a literary essay and book by James Allen, published in 1903. It was described by Allen as "... [dealing] with the power of thought, and particularly with the use and application of thought to happy and beautiful issues. I have tried to make the book simple, so that all can easily grasp and follow its teaching, and put into practice the methods which it advises. It shows how, in his own thought-world, each man holds the key to every condition, good or bad, that enters into his life, and that, by working patiently and intelligently upon his thoughts, he may remake his life, and transform his circumstances. It was also described by Allen as "A book that will help you to help yourself", "A pocket companion for thoughtful people", and "A book on the power and right application of thought."

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Wisdom of the East Subtitle: The Instruction of Ptah-hotep and The Instruction of Ke'gemni: The Oldest Books in the World Author: Battiscombe G. Gunn Narrator: John Klickman Format: Unabridged Length: 1 hr and 25 mins Language: English Release date: 12-07-17 Publisher: BN Publishing Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy Publisher's Summary: The oldest book in the world is the filled with wisdom quotes and teachings on how one is to conduct ones life and how to treat his fellow man. Good old ancient wisdom in its simplest form.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Socratic Dialogues Middle Period, Volume 2 Subtitle: Phaedrus, Cratylus, Parmenides Author: Plato Narrator: David Rintoul, Laurence Kennedy, full cast Format: Unabridged Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins Language: English Release date: 12-06-17 Publisher: Ukemi Audiobooks Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 3 votes Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy Publisher's Summary: The remarkable range of Plato's Dialogues is vividly demonstrated by these three works. It opens with Phaedrus, a highly personal discussion between Socrates (David Rintoul) and the young, love-struck Phaedrus (Gunnar Cauthery). They go for a walk outside the walls of Athens and, under a plane tree by the banks of the Ilissus, talk about love - erotic and 'Platonic'. Socrates endeavours to steer Phaedrus away from infatuation and show him that real love is based on concern for the beloved while also delivering a pointed criticism against lack of clarity in thought and expression! The subject of Cratylus is the meaning and etymology of names and words - a Dialogue unlike any other. Why is Zeus called Zeus? What is the origin of the names of Pallas Athene, Poseidon, Uranus? And how did psuche come to mean 'soul' and soma body? Attic Greek, the Greek of Plato's day, is prominent here, and care has been taken in the appropriate pronunciation for this recording. Finally, there is Parmenides, often regarded as the most challenging of all the Dialogues. Cephalus (Laurence Kennedy) repeats a discussion he heard between Socrates, Zeno and Parmenides as Socrates defends pluralist views and the theory of forms against monism. Translation by Benjamin Jowett.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Stoicism: The Art of Controlling Your Emotions and Pursuing Happiness Author: K. Connors Narrator: Jon Turner Format: Unabridged Length: 1 hr and 12 mins Language: English Release date: 12-05-17 Publisher: K. Connors Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 28 votes Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy Publisher's Summary: Stoicism is an ancient Greek philosophy which teaches the development of self-control and fortitude as a means of overcoming destructive emotions. It does not seek to extinguish emotions completely, but rather seeks to transform them through logic and reason, which enables a person to develop clear judgment, inner calm and freedom from suffering (which is considered the ultimate goal). This book will guide you through the origins and teachings of Stoicism, through direct quotes and experiences from its founding fathers. In this book, you will learn: Get your copy of Stoicism: The Art of Controlling Your Emotions and Pursuing Happiness and start living the good life today!

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Stoicism: Introduction to the Stoic Way of Life Subtitle: Beginner's Guide to Mastery Author: Jason Gale Narrator: Lukas Arnold Format: Unabridged Length: 2 hrs and 3 mins Language: English Release date: 12-04-17 Publisher: Healthy Pragmatic Solutions Inc Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 28 votes Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy Publisher's Summary: Let's face it, we can't control every aspect of our lives, and the fact is a lot of things we stress about are out of our direct control. The ancient philosophy of Stoicism still stands the test of time and is still practiced in society today all over the world. This is the art of living in true happiness, as stoic principles guide us to live in harmony and flow with life's many challenges. Many times we are taught and encouraged to take more of an aggressive and combative stance towards life's difficulties; however, in this guide to stoic mastery, you will learn how to overcome tribulation through virtue, controlling your emotions, endurance, mindfulness, and affirmations. The stoic way of life can be compared to that of water; the very nature of water entails the state of being fluid, flexible, dynamic, and contains a property of flow, not causing discord but creating perfect harmony. Water doesn't try to shift, force, or demand itself among its surroundings but, on the contrary, aligns itself in harmony with nature. What you'll learn in part one: There's more.... What you'll learn in part two:

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Socratic Dialogues Middle Period, Volume 1 Subtitle: Symposium, Theaetetus, Phaedo Author: Plato, Benjamin Jowett - translation Narrator: David Rintoul, Hugh Ross, full cast Format: Unabridged Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins Language: English Release date: 11-22-17 Publisher: Ukemi Audiobooks Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy Publisher's Summary: Here are three important but very different Dialogues from the Middle Period. Symposium, the most well-known in this collection, is concerned with the theme of love. In the house of Agathon, a group of friends - each very different in personality and background - meet to consider and discuss various kinds of love. Each one, Phaedrus, Pausanias, Eryximachus, Aristophanes (the playwright) and Agathon (a prize-winning tragic poet), presents his particular view in a short discourse until Socrates speaks at greater length. This would be the end except that, unexpectedly, Alcibiades (the vain general and controversial statesman) arrives, rather worse for drink, and makes his loud contribution with direct references to his personal relationship with Socrates. Symposium is an absorbing Dialogue, related, however, by one man - Apollodorus. It is read here by Hugh Ross. Phaedo is a very different Dialogue. It contains the moving account of the last hours of Socrates. Condemned to death by the Athenian court for impiety and the corruption of youth, he has been ordered to commit suicide. Friends gather around him on this last day, but even at such a moment Socrates chooses to spend the time considering the nature of the soul, whether it is immortal and what may happen after death. It concludes with a description of his final moments. In Theaetetus, Socrates engages with a young mathematician on the definition of knowledge, the examined life, and how the active life compares with the contemplative life. Translation by Benjamin Jowett.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Letters from a Stoic: Complete (Letters 1 - 124) Adapted for the Contemporary Reader (Seneca) Author: James Harris, Lucius Seneca Narrator: Greg Douras Format: Unabridged Length: 16 hrs and 32 mins Language: English Release date: 11-14-17 Publisher: James Harris Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 3 votes Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy Publisher's Summary: The Epistulae morales ad Lucilium (Latin for moral letters to Lucilius) are a collection of 124 letters which were written by Seneca at the end of his life, during his retirement, and written after he had worked for the Emperor Nero for 15 years. They are addressed to Lucilius, the then procurator of Sicily. The letters highlight many moral and ethical ways to live, and address many of the issues known to man, about life and death. These letters have been carefully adapted into a contemporary format to allow for easy listening and understanding. This is the complete volume, containing all 124 letter.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Socratic Dialogues Early Period, Volume 2 Subtitle: Gorgias, Protagoras, Meno, Euthydemus, Lesser Hippias, Greater Hippias Author: Plato, Benjamin Jowett - translator Narrator: David Rintoul, full cast Format: Unabridged Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins Language: English Release date: 11-06-17 Publisher: Ukemi Audiobooks Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 5 votes Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy Publisher's Summary: Here, in this second collection of Socratic Dialogues from Plato's Early Period, read by David Rintoul as Socrates with a full cast, are contrasting six works. Often, as with Gorgias, which opens the recording, Socrates combats the popular subjects of sophistry and rhetoric, in direct conversation with Gorgias (a leading sophist teacher), and with one of his pupils, Callicles. In Meno, Socrates encounters another Gorgias pupil, Meno, and a debate on 'virtue' ensues. Virtue is also the topic in Protagoras, though this dialogue is largely narrated by Socrates (David Rintoul), who 'reports' the conversation which had taken place shortly before. Euthydemus is one of the most entertaining of all the Socratic Dialogues, with the two vastly overconfident brothers Euthydemus and Dionysodorus, supposedly capable wrestlers, boxers and musicians, who have come to Athens to teach sophistry. They enter into philosophical debate with Socrates, who at times is almost amazed by their brash sense of superiority. The Lesser Hippias dialogue considers issues of morality, truth and lies, with reference to Homer's great characters Achilles and Odysseus, while the Greater Hippias enquires into the nature of beauty. Translation: Benjamin Jowett.

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Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Classical vs. Modern Education Subtitle: A Vision from C.S. Lewis Author: Dr. Steve Turley Narrator: Stephen R. Turley Format: Unabridged Length: 37 mins Language: English Release date: 10-24-17 Publisher: Turley Talks Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy Publisher's Summary: Discover the best education for your child imaginable! With all the education options available today, choosing the right school or curriculum for your child can be daunting. But what if you knew what the ideal education looked like? Now you will! C.S. Lewis, the beloved author of the Chronicles of Narnia series, guides us on a journey that contrasts classical and contemporary education approaches. Lewis explains that while the cultivation of virtue was central to classical education, modern education stifles such moral formation by teaching a scientifically-inspired mechanistic vision of the world. By rediscovering classical education, Lewis argues that the affections of our students can be trained to love what's truly lovely and thereby experience human flourishing. Here is a preview of what you'll learn.... The best possible education is at your fingertips! Take action today and awaken your child to a world of educational flourishing!

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Stoicism: Live a Life of Virtue - Complete Guide on Stoicism Subtitle: Stoicism Series, Book 3 Author: Ryan James Narrator: Eric Burr Format: Unabridged Length: 1 hr and 22 mins Language: English Release date: 10-10-17 Publisher: Ryan James Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 44 votes Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy Publisher's Summary: Stoicism: Live a Life of Virtue - Complete Guide on Stoicism provides an overview of the history of the stoic philosophy as well as profiles of some of the ancient masters who contributed to its development. In addition, it tells the stories of some modern practitioners of the philosophy who successfully used it to overcome difficult situations in their lives. We have also provided a number of exercises that you can use to help make Stoicism a part of your daily life. Topics covered include: Start living the stoic life today.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Art of the Argument Subtitle: Western Civilization's Last Stand Author: Stefan Molyneux Narrator: Stefan Molyneux Format: Unabridged Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins Language: English Release date: 09-15-17 Publisher: Stefan Molyneux Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 350 votes Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy Publisher's Summary: The Art of the Argument shocks the dying art of rational debate back to life, giving you the essential tools you need to fight the escalating sophistry, falsehoods, and vicious personal attacks that have displaced intelligent conversations throughout the world. At a time when we need reasonable and empirical discussions more desperately than ever, The Art of the Argument smashes through the brain-eating fogs of sophistry and mental manipulation, illuminating a path to benevolent power for all who wish to take it. Civilization is defined by our willingness and ability to use words instead of fists - in the absence of reason, violence rules. The Art of the Argument gives you the intellectual ammunition - in one concentrated, entertaining and powerful package - to engage in truly productive, civilization-saving debates. Armed with this book, you will be empowered to speak truth to power, illuminate ignorance, shatter delusions, and expose the dangerous sophists within your own life, and around the world.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve Author: Stephen Greenblatt Narrator: Stephen Hoye Format: Unabridged Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins Language: English Release date: 09-12-17 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 47 votes Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy Publisher's Summary: Stephen Greenblatt - Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award- winning author of The Swerve and Will in the World - investigates the life of one of humankind's greatest stories. Bolder even than the ambitious books for which Stephen Greenblatt is already renowned, The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve explores the enduring story of humanity's first parents. Comprising only a few ancient verses, the story of Adam and Eve has served as a mirror in which we seem to glimpse the whole long history of our fears and desires, as both a hymn to human responsibility and a dark fable about human wretchedness. Tracking the tale into the deep past, Greenblatt uncovers the tremendous theological, artistic, and cultural investment over centuries that made these fictional figures so profoundly resonant in the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim worlds and, finally, so very "real" to millions of people even in the present. With the uncanny brilliance he previously brought to his depictions of William Shakespeare and Poggio Bracciolini (the humanist monk who is the protagonist of The Swerve), Greenblatt explores the intensely personal engagement of Augustine, Dürer, and Milton in this mammoth project of collective creation while he also limns the diversity of the story's offspring: rich allegory, vicious misogyny, deep moral insight, and some of the greatest triumphs of art and literature. The biblical origin story, Greenblatt argues, is a model for what the humanities still have to offer: not the scientific nature of things but rather a deep encounter with problems that have gripped our species for as long as we can recall and that continue to fascinate and trouble us today.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Quest for Cosmic Justice Author: Thomas Sowell Narrator: Robertson Dean Format: Unabridged Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins Language: English Release date: 09-05-17 Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc. Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 145 votes Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy Publisher's Summary: This book is about the great moral issues underlying many of the headline-making political controversies of our times. It is not a comforting book but a book about disturbing and dangerous trends. The Quest for Cosmic Justice shows how confused conceptions of justice end up promoting injustice, how confused conceptions of equality end up promoting inequality, and how the tyranny of social visions prevents many people from confronting the actual consequences of their own beliefs and policies. Those consequences include the steady and dangerous erosion of fundamental principles of freedom - amounting to a quiet repeal of the American revolution. The Quest for Cosmic Justice is the summation of a lifetime of study and thought about where we as a society are headed - and why we need to change course before we do irretrievable damage.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: 600 Quotes of Ancient Philosophy Author: Plato, Aristotle, Buddha, Epictetus, Confucius, Marcus Aurelius Narrator: Katie Haigh Format: Unabridged Length: 2 hrs and 26 mins Language: English Release date: 09-01-17 Publisher: Astorg Audio Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy Publisher's Summary: Ancient philosophy provides us with timeless wisdom while bringing a new light on the way modern thought has been shaped by building on the ancient masters. This audiobook is a careful compilation of essential quotes summarizing each one of the great masters' fundamental ideas. Learn Stoicism from the teachings of both Marcus Aurelius, the emperor, and Epictetus the slave, each one intent on his own quest for the best possible life; discover the essence of ideas, logic and philosophy with Aristotle and his pupil Plato; open wide the gates of oriental philosophy with the masters of Zen enlightenment, Confucius and Gautama Buddha. Taken from immortal works, these excerpts will add to your culture and inspire you on the road of your own self-improvement. ©2017 Compagnie du Savoir (P)2017 Compagnie du Savoir

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Summary: Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow Author: Readtrepreneur Publishing Narrator: Lynn Benson Format: Unabridged Length: 1 hr and 25 mins Language: English Release date: 08-16-17 Publisher: Readtrepreneur Publishing Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 35 votes Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy Publisher's Summary: Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari| Book Summary | Readtrepreneur Mankind is undoubtedly one interesting species. We have managed to overcome, and even come up with solutions to, major world problems like famine, plague, and war. This audiobook Homo Deus discusses the evolution of man over the years; from simple-minded beings who believed in God, to intelligent men who question God's existence and would rather rely on science and data computation to get their answers. (Note: This summary is wholly written and published by readtrepreneur.com. It is not affiliated with the original author in any way). "History began when humans invented gods, and will end when humans become gods." - Yuval Noah Harari. Homo Deus tells us of the journey throughout man's quest for power as they attempt to become more godlike, and the reasons behind why they could accomplish so much. Humankind has always thought of themselves as more superior than the other species, and believed that their existence has great meaning, and meant for a higher purpose. P.S. Open your eyes and mind as you learn more about our own species - mankind. As we listen along, Homo Deus will make us ponder - are we really as great as we think? Are we bettering ourselves, or self-destructing?

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Crime: Its Cause and Treatment Author: Clarence Darrow Narrator: John Stanbridge Format: Unabridged Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins Language: English Release date: 07-24-17 Publisher: Audioliterature Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy Publisher's Summary: "Crime: Its Cause and Treatment" (1922) contains Clarence Darrows thoughts on the subject. "This book comes from the reflections and experience of more than forty years spent in court. Aside from the practice of my profession, the topics I have treated are such as have always held my interest and inspired a taste for books that discuss the human machine with its manifestations and the causes of its varied activity. I have endeavored to present the latest scientific thought and investigation bearing upon the question of human conduct. I do not pretend to be an original investigator, nor an authority on biology, psychology or philosophy. I have simply been a student giving the subject such attention as I could during a fairly busy life. No doubt some of the scientific conclusions stated are still debatable and may finally be rejected. The scientific mind holds opinions tentatively and is always ready to reexamine, modify or discard as new evidence comes to light." (Excerpt) ©2017 Audioliterature (P)2017 Audioliterature

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: A Short History of Ethics Author: Alasdair MacIntyre Narrator: Tim Dalgleish Format: Unabridged Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins Language: English Release date: 07-07-17 Publisher: University Press Audiobooks Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy Publisher's Summary: A Short History of Ethics is a significant contribution written by one of the most important living philosophers. For the second edition, Alasdair MacIntyre has included a new preface in which he examines his book "30 years on" and considers its impact. It remains an important work, ideal for all students interested in ethics and morality. The book is published by University of Notre Dame Press. Critic Reviews: "The author has become perhaps the most important moral philosopher in the English-speaking world." (First Things) "MacIntyre's highly respected Short History has been translated into six languages. MacIntyre is always provocative, and this book will continue to excite engagement with fundamental moral issues." (Choice) "This brilliant and provocative book is not so much a history of ethics as it is an essay about the history of ethics...it is interesting and philosophically important in a way that most short histories...are not." (Philosophical Review)

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Spell of the Sensuous Subtitle: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World Author: David Abram Narrator: Sean Runnette Format: Unabridged Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins Language: English Release date: 06-20-17 Publisher: Tantor Audio Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 28 votes Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy Publisher's Summary: For a thousand generations, human beings viewed themselves as part of the wider community of nature, and they carried on active relationships not only with other people but with other animals, plants, and natural objects (including mountains, rivers, winds, and weather patterns) that we have only lately come to think of as "inanimate". How, then, did humans come to sever their ancient reciprocity with the natural world? What will it take for us to recover a sustaining relationship with the breathing earth? In The Spell of the Sensuous, David Abram draws on sources as diverse as the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty, Balinese shamanism, Apache storytelling, and his own experience as an accomplished sleight-of-hand magician to reveal the subtle dependence of human cognition on the natural environment. He explores the character of perception and excavates the sensual foundations of language, which - even at its most abstract - echoes the calls and cries of the earth. In this lyrical work, Abram weaves his arguments with a passion, a precision, and an intellectual daring that recall such writers as Loren Eisleley, Annie Dillard, and Barry Lopez.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Totem And Taboo Author: Sigmund Freud Narrator: Mary Schneider Format: Unabridged Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins Language: English Release date: 06-13-17 Publisher: SAGA Egmont Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 2 votes Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy Publisher's Summary: "Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics" is a book by Sigmund Freud, published in German in 1913. It is a collection of four essays first published in the journal "Imago" (1912-13), employing the application of psychoanalysis to the fields of archaeology, anthropology, and the study of religion. The four essays are entitled: "The Horror of Incest"; "Taboo and Emotional Ambivalence"; "Animism, Magic and the Omnipotence of Thoughts" and "The Return of Totemism in Childhood". ©2017 SAGA Egmont (P)2017 SAGA Egmont

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Summary of Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb Author: FlashBooks Book Summaries Narrator: Dean Bokhari Format: Unabridged Length: 43 mins Language: English Release date: 06-06-17 Publisher: FlashBooks Book Summaries Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 28 votes Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy Publisher's Summary: This is a book summary of Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb and not the original book. Antifragile is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision making in a world we don't understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, and The Bed of Procrustes. Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the best-selling author of The Black Swan and one of the foremost thinkers of our time, reveals how to thrive in an uncertain world. Just as human bones get stronger when subjected to stress and tension, and rumors or riots intensify when someone tries to repress them, many things in life benefit from stress, disorder, volatility, and turmoil. What Taleb has identified and calls "antifragile" is that category of things that not only gain from chaos but need it in order to survive and flourish.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Ideas Have Consequences Subtitle: Expanded Edition Author: Richard M. Weaver, Roger Kimball - foreword, Ted J. Smith III - afterword, Derek Perkins Narrator: Frederick Davidson Format: Unabridged Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins Language: English Release date: 06-06-17 Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc. Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 14 votes Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy Publisher's Summary: Originally published in 1948, at the height of post-World War II optimism and confidence in collective security, Ideas Have Consequences uses "words hard as cannonballs" to present an unsparing diagnosis of the ills of the modern age. The book is now seen as one of the foundational texts of the modern conservative movement. In it, Richard M. Weaver argues that the decline of Western civilization resulted from the rising acceptance of relativism over absolute reality. In spite of increased knowledge, this retreat from the realist intellectual tradition has weakened the Western capacity to reason, with catastrophic consequences for social order and individual rights. But Weaver also offers a realistic remedy. These difficulties are the product not of necessity, but of intelligent choice. And, today, as decades ago, the remedy lies in the renewed acceptance of absolute reality and the recognition that ideas - like actions - have consequences. This expanded edition of the classic work contains a foreword by New Criterion editor Roger Kimball that offers insight into the rich intellectual and historical contexts of Weaver and his work, and an afterword by Ted J. Smith III that relates the remarkable story of the book's writing and publication.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Leviathan Subtitle: Or, the Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil Author: Thomas Hobbes Narrator: Peter Wickham Format: Unabridged Length: 21 hrs and 50 mins Language: English Release date: 05-23-17 Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 3 votes Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy Publisher's Summary: Born out of the political turmoil of the English Civil War, Leviathan stands out as one of the most in influential political and philosophical texts of the 17th century. It argues for the restoration of the monarchy in light of the republic and calls for a commonwealth ruled by an authoritative, autocratic figure with absolute sovereignty. This would put an end to all controversy, war, and fear and establish peace via social contract. Over the course of the book, Hobbes targets Christianity and contemporary philosophic methods, rejecting the idea of spirits and souls and arguing for a philosophy to end divisiveness and provide indisputable conclusions. These highly controversial theses led to book burnings in 1666 and Hobbes being dubbed the 'Monster of Malmsbury'.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Rhetoric and Poetics Author: Aristotle Narrator: James Cameron Stewart Format: Unabridged Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins Language: English Release date: 05-12-17 Publisher: Ukemi Audiobooks Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy Publisher's Summary: Poetics and Rhetoric are the two major works by Aristotle which, after more than 2,000 years, remain key behavioural handbooks for anyone interested in story, performance, presentation and indeed psychology. The continuing influence of Poetics, for example, is readily discernible even among the scriptwriters of Hollywood! Poetics is the shorter work, lasting under two hours, whereas Rhetoric - the art of persuasion, an important subject, particularly in Greek and Roman times but even today - is more extensive, running to nearly nine hours. In Poetics, Aristotle discusses the structure behind drama, comedy, tragedy and the satire plays as well as lyric poetry, epic poetry and music. The structure of a work, the plot, the characters as well as pace and rhythm are all considered. To listen to Poetics is a revelation, like going back to the source of literary theory. Aristotle developed his view on rhetoric over a period of 40 years, and the work is now regarded as the key source on the subject. In a largely oral world, the ability to speak well and persuade by presentation was crucial to success in human affairs. All the major figures of the period studied the best ways to deliver the spoken word - a necessary skill for orators at all levels. For Aristotle, there were three major elements: ethos (the personal character of the speaker), pathos (the emotional influence of the speaker on the audience) and logos (the content and the argument). Rhetoric consists of three books, dividing the topic into the overview, the means of persuasion and the style. A fascinating document, it remains required study in the 21st century, not only for public speakers but those involved in all circumstances where persuasion is involved. With ethos - the character of the speaker - underpinning the subject, the positive nature of art of persuasion should be paramount! Poetics is translated by S. H. Butcher. Rhetoric is translated by W. Rhys Roberts. Both are read clearly by James Cameron Stewart.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: How to Be a Stoic Subtitle: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life Author: Massimo Pigliucci Narrator: Peter Coleman Format: Unabridged Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins Language: English Release date: 05-09-17 Publisher: Hachette Audio Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 211 votes Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy Publisher's Summary: An engaging guide to how Stoicism - the ancient philosophy of Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius - can provide lessons for living in the modern world Whenever we worry about what to eat, how to love, or simply how to be happy, we are worrying about how to lead a good life. No goal is more elusive. In How to Be a Stoic, philosopher Massimo Pigliucci offers Stoicism, the ancient philosophy that inspired the great emperor Marcus Aurelius, as the best way to attain it. Stoicism is a pragmatic philosophy that teaches us to act depending on what is within our control and separate things worth getting upset about from those that are not. By understanding Stoicism, we can learn to answer crucial questions. Should we get married or divorced? How should we bank in a world nearly destroyed by a financial crisis? How can we survive great personal tragedy? Whoever you are, Stoicism has something for you - and How to Be a Stoic is your essential guide. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio. Critic Reviews: "This is a lucid, engaging, and persuasive book about what it means to pursue Stoic ideals in the here and now. Massimo Pigliucci's imaginary conversations with Epictetus carry the reader effortlessly along while grounding the discussion firmly in the ancient Stoic tradition-and in his own life experience. The result is a compelling picture of a Stoic way of life that is consistent with contemporary science and philosophy, and is both eminently ethical and down-to-earth practical. It will be inviting to Stoics and non-Stoics alike who are willing to reason together seriously about how (and why) to be a modern Stoic." (Lawrence C. Becker, author of A New Stoicism) "If you want to learn the ways of Stoicism, and you're living in the 21st century, this should be one of the first books you read. Massimo has written a fine primer for the aspiring Marcus Aurelius." (Donald J. Robertson, author of The Philosophy of CBT and Stoicism and the Art of Happiness) "In this thought-provoking book, Massimo Pigliucci shares his journey of discovering the power of Stoic practices in a philosophical dialogue with one of Stoicism's greatest teachers." (Ryan Holiday, best-selling author of The Obstacle Is the Way and The Daily Stoic)

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Metaphysics Author: Aristotle Narrator: James Cameron Stewart Format: Unabridged Length: 14 hrs and 30 mins Language: English Release date: 03-13-17 Publisher: Ukemi Audiobooks Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 11 votes Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy Publisher's Summary: Aristotle's Metaphysics was the first major study of the subject of metaphysics - in other words, an inquiry into 'first philosophy', or 'wisdom'. It differs from Physics, which is concerned with the natural world: things which are subject to the laws of nature, things that move and change, are measurable. In Metaphysics, the study falls on 'being qua being' - being insofar as it is being; the causes and principles of being, the causes and principles of substances. Aristotle asks, what is existence? How can things continue to exist yet change, and how can we best understand the world we live in? The work as it has come down to us is a compilation of Aristotle's writing on the subject made in Alexandria in the first century CE, and it proved enormously influential from the Greeks onward, through the medieval and Renaissance periods. In Metaphysics, Aristotle absorbed Plato's view that nature is eternal and unchangeable while accepting that we live in a world that appears full of change. A challenging work, Metaphysics is divided into 14 books. It begins with the causes of things and questions the existence of God, the understanding of 'being' and the concept of 'substance'. It proceeds to consider 'actuality', 'potentiality' and 'unity'. This first recording, using the clear translation by W. D. Ross, is presented in a measured and comprehensible manner by James Cameron Stewart.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Uses of Enchantment Subtitle: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales Author: Bruno Bettelheim Narrator: Gerard Doyle Format: Unabridged Length: 14 hrs and 25 mins Language: English Release date: 02-28-17 Publisher: Tantor Audio Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 13 votes Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy Publisher's Summary: Bruno Bettelheim was one of the great child psychologists of the twentieth century and perhaps none of his books has been more influential than this revelatory study of fairy tales and their universal importance in understanding childhood development. Analyzing a wide range of traditional stories, from the tales of Sindbad to "The Three Little Pigs", "Hansel and Gretel", and "The Sleeping Beauty", Bettelheim shows how the fantastical, sometimes cruel, but always deeply significant narrative strands of the classic fairy tales can aid in our greatest human task, that of finding meaning for one's life.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The World as Will And Idea, Volume 1 Author: Arthur Schopenhauer Narrator: Leighton Pugh Format: Unabridged Length: 20 hrs and 31 mins Language: English Release date: 02-06-17 Publisher: Ukemi Audiobooks Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 22 votes Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy Publisher's Summary: Schopenhauer was just 30 when his magnum opus, Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung, a work of considerable learning and innovation of thought, first appeared in 1818. Much to his chagrin and puzzlement (so convinced was he of its merits), it didn't have an immediate effect on European philosophy, views and culture. It was only decades later that it was recognised as one of the major intellectual landmarks of the 19th century. It proved to be a work that was not only to make an indelible impression on leading figures that followed him closely - Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Mann, Sigmund Freud - but also others well into the 20th century, including Carl Jung, Herman Hesse, Jorge Luis Borges, Karl Popper and Samuel Beckett. What was the Schopenhauerian proposition that made The World as Will and Idea so important? Absorbing views from Kant and Buddhist ideas filtering almost for the first time through Europe, Schopenhauer, putting the concept of God aside, proposed that man is driven by 'a will to life'; desire, craving, wanting - these are the elements that propel him fiercely along life's path, even though it causes him suffering. It is on that basis that Schopenhauer opens the work with the statement 'the world is my idea'. Man perceives the sun and the earth but can relate to them only through his own consciousness. He makes his own world. Though stamped as a pessimist, and certainly combative as a personality and a writer, Schopenhauers work - and The World as Will and Idea - doesn't read darkly. Instead it is rich and challenging, as he surveys broadly philosophy, history, art, literature, music and culture generally. His opinions are strong and testing, his breadth of knowledge invigorating. The translation recorded here is the classic rendering by R. B. Haldane. However, the numerous literary and philosophical references - Greek, Latin, German, French, Persian, etc - in both the main text and the relevant footnotes are given here in English. Thus Schopenhauer's major work can be absorbed and enjoyed directly - and especially in this intelligent, clear and committed narration by the actor and German scholar Leighton Pugh. Schopenhauer has had a long and continuing influence extending well into the 21st century, and The World as Will and Idea is one of the great stepping-stones of European thought which needs to be listened to. He added a subsequent volume later in his life, but volume 1 is the major work.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Books That Matter: The Analects of Confucius Author: The Great Courses Narrator: Professor Robert André LaFleur Format: Original Recording Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins Language: English Release date: 12-09-16 Publisher: The Great Courses Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 115 votes Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy Publisher's Summary: Compiled centuries before the birth of Jesus, the Analects of Confucius is anything but dry ancient philosophy. Many of its passages hold the same power as any great Socratic dialogue. Which makes trying to get to the heart of the Analects - and its importance - a challenging and undeniably exciting intellectual pursuit. With these 24 accessible lectures, enjoy an adventurous exploration of one of the world's most important philosophical texts. Filled with rich historical context, detailed close readings of key passages, expert interpretations of larger cultural trends, and stories of Confucius and his most notable students (and critics), these lectures are required learning for anyone who wants a solid understanding of Eastern philosophy - and the ways a single book can cross cultures and go on to inspire an entire world. After grounding your approach to the Analects with a look at what we know (and don't know) about Confucius' life, career, and teaching philosophy, you'll examine some of the book's most powerful, central themes. Among these are remonstrance (an idea at the heart of Chinese social and political life) and effective rule (which, for Confucius, required a grounding in morality and integrity). As you illuminate your understanding of key passages in the Analects, you'll also meet the students, philosophers, and statesmen who, in their own ways, contributed to the millennia-long story of this enduring book - by recording Confucian thought, critiquing it, building on it, pillorying it, and resurrecting it for the modern age. As with all great philosophical experiences, the Analects is a work whose intellectual richness and insight remain with you long after you've heard the final passages. So, too, will these lectures, which will help internalize Confucian teachings - and make them work in your own life. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Consolation of Philosophy Author: Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius Narrator: David Rintoul Format: Unabridged Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins Language: English Release date: 11-03-16 Publisher: Ukemi Audiobooks Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 48 votes Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy Publisher's Summary: The Consolation of Philosophy is one of the key works in the rich tradition of Western philosophy, partly because of the circumstances in which it was written. Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (c480-c524) was of aristocratic Roman birth and became consul and then master of offices at Ravenna, one of the highest posts under the Ostrogothic Roman ruler Theodoric. But Boethius was unjustly charged with treason in 524, and this led to house arrest, then torture and execution. It was while he was imprisoned and anticipating his fate that he wrote The Consolation of Philosophy, a remarkably personal document in which, through alternating passages of poetry and prose, he considers the lot of humankind. He draws on classical Greek and Roman philosophy, emphasising the fragility of worldly position and that true happiness can only come from within. As a practising Christian, he placed this within a Christian perspective. The work is all the more effective because it is presented as a dialogue between the despairing Boethius and a figure known as Lady Philosophy, who constantly questions, guides and supports the former statesman, leading him to a place of understanding and equilibrium. The work has proved a continuing influence through the ages, having been translated by figures as disparate as Alfred the Great, Chaucer, Elizabeth I and many others. The translation by H. R. James has been revised and modernised for this recording.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Daily Stoic Subtitle: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living Author: Stephen Hanselman, Ryan Holiday Narrator: Brian Holsopple Format: Unabridged Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins Language: English Release date: 10-18-16 Publisher: Tim Ferriss Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 778 votes Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy Publisher's Summary: From the team that brought you The Obstacle Is the Way and Ego Is the Enemy, a beautiful daily devotional of Stoic meditations. Why have history's greatest minds - from George Washington to Frederick the Great to Ralph Waldo Emerson along with today's top performers, from Super Bowl-winning football coaches to CEOs and celebrities - embraced the wisdom of the ancient Stoics? Because they realize that the most valuable wisdom is timeless and that philosophy is for living a better life, not a classroom exercise. The Daily Stoic offers a daily devotional of Stoic insights and exercises, featuring all-new translations from Emperor Marcus Aurelius, playwright Seneca, and slave-turned-philosopher Epictetus as well as lesser-known luminaries like Zeno, Cleanthes, and Musonius Rufus. Every day of the year, you'll find one of their pithy, powerful quotations as well as historical anecdotes, provocative commentary, and a helpful glossary of Greek terms. By following these teachings over the course of a year (and, indeed, for years to come), you'll find the serenity, self-knowledge, and resilience you need to live well.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: American Philosophy Subtitle: A Love Story Author: John Kaag Narrator: Josh Bloomberg Format: Unabridged Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins Language: English Release date: 10-11-16 Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc. Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 348 votes Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy Publisher's Summary: The epic wisdom contained in a lost library helps the author turn his life around. In American Philosophy, John Kaag - a disillusioned philosopher at sea in his marriage and career - stumbles upon a treasure trove of rare books on an old estate in the hinterlands of New Hampshire that once belonged to the Harvard philosopher William Ernest Hocking. The library includes notes from Whitman, inscriptions from Frost, and first editions of Hobbes, Descartes, and Kant. As he begins to catalog and preserve these priceless books, Kaag rediscovers the very tenets of American philosophy - self-reliance, pragmatism, the transcendent - and sees them in a 21st-century context. Hocking was one of the last true giants of American philosophy. After studying under Harvard's philosophical four - William James, George Santayana, Josiah Royce, and George Herbert Palmer - he held the most prestigious chair at the university for the first three decades of the 20th century. And when his teachers eventually died, he collected the great books from their libraries (filled with marginalia) and combined them with his own rare volumes at his family's estate. And there they remained for nearly 80 years, a time capsule of American thought. Part intellectual history, part memoir, American Philosophy is an invigorating investigation of American pragmatism and the wisdom that underlies a meaningful life.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Madness and Civilization Subtitle: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason Author: Michel Foucault Narrator: Dave Gillies Format: Unabridged Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins Language: English Release date: 09-21-16 Publisher: Tantor Audio Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 36 votes Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy Publisher's Summary: In this classic account of madness, Michel Foucault shows once and for all why he is one of the most distinguished European philosophers since the end of World War II. Madness and Civilization, Foucault's first book and his finest accomplishment, will change the way in which you think about society. Evoking shock, pity, and fascination, it might also make you question the way you think about yourself. Critic Reviews: "Superb scholarship rendered with artistry." ( The Nation)

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Ethics in the Real World Subtitle: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter Author: Peter Singer Narrator: Matthew Lloyd Davies Format: Unabridged Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins Language: English Release date: 09-13-16 Publisher: Tantor Audio Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 147 votes Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy Publisher's Summary: Peter Singer is often described as the world's most influential philosopher. He is also one of its most controversial. The author of important books such as Animal Liberation and Practical Ethics, he helped launch the animal rights and effective altruism movements and contributed to the development of bioethics. Now, in Ethics in the Real World, Singer shows that he is also a master at dissecting important current events in a few hundred words. In this book of brief essays, he applies his controversial ways of thinking to issues like climate change, extreme poverty, animals, abortion, euthanasia, human genetic selection, sports doping, the sale of kidneys, the ethics of high-priced art, and ways of increasing happiness. Singer asks whether chimpanzees are people, smoking should be outlawed, or consensual sex between adult siblings should be decriminalized, and he reiterates his case against the idea that all human life is sacred, applying his arguments to some recent cases in the news. In addition, he explores, in an easily accessible form, some of the deepest philosophical questions, such as whether anything really matters and what is the value of the pale blue dot that is our planet. Critic Reviews: "Peter Singer is among the most vital moral voices of our time. He urges us to confront not only the question of what we should not do, but also the harder and larger questions of what we should do, and how much we owe to others." (Larissa MacFarquhar, author of Strangers Drowning)

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Projection and Re-Collection in Jungian Psychology: Reflections of the Soul Subtitle: Reality of the Psyche Series Author: Marie-Louise Von Franz Narrator: Rosemary Benson Format: Unabridged Length: 8 hrs and 1 min Language: English Release date: 07-19-16 Publisher: University Press Audiobooks Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 27 votes Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy Publisher's Summary: A classic in the Jungian literature, written by one of Jung's most distinguished collaborators. The book is published by Open Court. Critic Reviews: "Marie Louise von Franz's Projection and Re-Collection is thorough in its wide-ranging exploration as both a map and a guide to the recognition and reclaiming of projection. Von Franz skillfully brings theory to life as she builds on and further develops C. G. Jung's research on projection." (Julia Jewett, Jungian analyst) "The book is stimulating in going to the core of psychotherapeutic work, and invites a response from psychotherapists in general and from Jungian analysts in particular." ( San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal)

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Life and Philosophy of Pythagoras: Esoteric Classics Author: Manly P. Hall Narrator: Robin Haynes Format: Unabridged Length: 43 mins Language: English Release date: 07-18-16 Publisher: Lamp of Trismegistus Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 47 votes Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy Publisher's Summary: Esoteric scholar Manly P. Hall gives a brief biography of the life of the fabled Greek philosopher, Pythagoras, as well as accounts of how he was murdered. He gives a fantastic overview of the teachings of that man. Hall covers his theories of transmigration, symmetrical solids, aphorisms, astronomy, and many other things, as well as what he expected of his students and accounts of his school and initiations.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: At the Existentialist Café Subtitle: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails Author: Sarah Bakewell Narrator: Antonia Beamish Format: Unabridged Length: 14 hrs and 43 mins Language: English Release date: 06-07-16 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 476 votes Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy Publisher's Summary: Earphones Award Winner (AudioFile Magazine) From the best-selling author of How to Live, a spirited account of one of the 20th century's major intellectual movements and the revolutionary thinkers who came to shape it. Paris, 1933: Three contemporaries meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are the young Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and longtime friend Raymond Aron, a fellow philosopher who raves to them about a new conceptual framework from Berlin called phenomenology. "You see," he says, "if you are a phenomenologist, you can talk about this cocktail and make philosophy out of it!" It was this simple phrase that would ignite a movement, inspiring Sartre to integrate phenomenology into his own French humanistic sensibility, thereby creating an entirely new philosophical approach inspired by themes of radical freedom, authentic being, and political activism. This movement would sweep through the jazz clubs and cafés of the Left Bank before making its way across the world as existentialism. Featuring not only philosophers but also playwrights, anthropologists, convicts, and revolutionaries, At the Existentialist Café follows the existentialists' story from the first rebellious spark through the Second World War to its role in postwar liberation movements such as anticolonialism, feminism, and gay rights. Interweaving biography and philosophy, it is the epic account of passionate encounters - fights, love affairs, mentorships, rebellions, and long partnerships - and a vital investigation into what the existentialists have to offer us today, at a moment when we are once again confronting the major questions of freedom, global responsibility, and human authenticity in a fractious and technology-driven world. Critic Reviews: "Polished, witty, often very funny, this stellar production is a rewarding and pleasurable choice. Even more, it proves to be uncannily relevant to the urgent challenges of our current day. " (AudioFile)

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Enchiridion & Discourses Author: Epictetus Narrator: Haward B. Morse Format: Unabridged Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins Language: English Release date: 06-05-16 Publisher: Ukemi Audiobooks Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 110 votes Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy Publisher's Summary: The Enchiridion is the famous manual of ethical advice given in the second century by the Stoic philosopher Epictetus. Born to a Greek slave, Epictetus grew up in the environment of the Roman Empire and, having been released from bonds of slavery, became a Stoic in the tradition of its originators, Zeno (third Century BCE) and Seneca (first century CE). Epictetus didn't leave a formal written legacy, but his pupil, Arrian, collected his teachings, and posterity now has The Enchiridion and The Discourses. The first is a short compilation of Stoical precepts - how to live an ethical life. It is essentially about everyday life, and it maintained its popularity throughout the succeeding centuries, on par with the other principal concise Stoic document from the Roman period, Meditations by Marcus Aurelius - who had clearly read it. The Enchiridion is presented here as the translation by Thomas W. Higginson. The Discourses, a much longer text again compiled by Arrian, contains a more comprehensive view of the teachings of Epictetus. The Discourses is translated by George Long.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: On the Shortness of Life, On the Happy Life, and Other Essays Subtitle: Essays, Volume 1 Author: Seneca Narrator: James Cameron Stewart Format: Unabridged Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins Language: English Release date: 05-03-16 Publisher: Ukemi Audiobooks Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 67 votes Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy Publisher's Summary: As former tutor and adviser to Emperor Nero, philosopher and statesman Seneca was acutely aware of how short life can be - his own life was cut short when the emperor ordered him to commit suicide (for alleged involvement in a conspiracy). And Seneca proved true to his words - his lifelong avowal to Stoicism enabled him to conduct himself with dignity to the end. During his rich and busy life, Seneca wrote a series of essays that have advised and enriched the lives of generations down to the present day. This collection contains five of the key essays - 'On the Shortness of Life', 'On the Happy Life', 'On the Tranquil Mind', 'On Providence' and 'On the Firmness of the Wise Person' - and they are replete with observations to remember. 'Those who forget the past, neglect the present, and fear for the future have a life that is very brief and troubled,' Seneca warns. 'You have all the fears of mortals and all the desires of immortals.' 'As long as we wander at random, not following any guide except the shouts and discordant clamours of those who invite us to proceed in different directions, our short life will be wasted in useless roamings.' Clarity, steadfastness and true enjoyment are his watchwords.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: On Anger, on Leisure, on Clemency Subtitle: Essays, Volume 2 Author: Seneca Narrator: James Cameron Stewart Format: Unabridged Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins Language: English Release date: 05-02-16 Publisher: Ukemi Audiobooks Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 30 votes Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy Publisher's Summary: 'On Anger' is one of Seneca's most important essays. At some length he investigates the nature of anger: how and why it emerges, the effect it has on the individual and those to whom it is directed, and how to manage it and prevent it even from arising. For, Seneca considers, anger simply serves no purpose - it does not bring courage in war, prevent others misbehaving or punish miscreants. In short it has a negative effect on all. In 'On Leisure' he takes a short look at what is really meant by the term. 'On Clemency' has a special fascination, for in writing it he was addressing specifically his former pupil, Emperor Nero. Did he realise that the boy he knew - full of promise and beneficence - was to become a tyrant? While delivering his Stoic advice in his characteristically controlled and reasonable manner, Seneca gives us a remarkably contemporary insight into Roman attitudes and manners. Anger may be inappropriate, but this was a society where slaves, torture, crucifixion, and the right of the powerful to exercise their power at will was taken for granted, as some of Seneca's shocking tales and anecdotes demonstrate!

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Anger and Forgiveness Subtitle: Resentment, Generosity, Justice Author: Martha C. Nussbaum Narrator: Karen White Format: Unabridged Length: 15 hrs and 49 mins Language: English Release date: 05-02-16 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 23 votes Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy Publisher's Summary: Anger is not just ubiquitous; it is also popular. Many people think it is impossible to care sufficiently for justice without anger at injustice. Many believe that it is impossible for individuals to vindicate their own self-respect or to move beyond injuries without anger. To not feel anger in those cases would be considered suspect. Is this how we should think about anger, or is anger above all a disease, deforming both the personal and the political? In this wide-ranging book, Martha C. Nussbaum, one of our leading public intellectuals, argues that anger is conceptually confused and normatively pernicious. It assumes that the suffering of the wrongdoer restores the thing that was damaged, and it betrays an all-too-lively interest in relative status and humiliation. Studying anger in intimate relationships, casual daily interactions, the workplace, the criminal justice system, and movements for social transformation, Nussbaum shows that anger's core ideas are both infantile and harmful. Is forgiveness the best way of transcending anger? Nussbaum examines different conceptions of this much-sentimentalized notion in both the Jewish and Christian traditions and in secular morality. Some forms of forgiveness are ethically promising, she claims, but others are subtle allies of retribution: those that exact a performance of contrition and abasement as a condition of waiving angry feelings. In general, she argues, a spirit of generosity (combined, in some cases, with a reliance on impartial welfare-oriented legal institutions) is the best way to respond to injury. Applied to the personal and the political realms, Nussbaum's profoundly insightful and erudite view of anger and forgiveness puts both in a startling new light.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: How Enlightenment Changes Your Brain Subtitle: The New Science of Transformation Author: Andrew Newberg, Mark Robert Waldman Narrator: Fred Stella Format: Unabridged Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins Language: English Release date: 03-15-16 Publisher: Brilliance Audio Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 40 votes Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy Publisher's Summary: The bestselling authors of How God Changes Your Brain reveal the neurological underpinnings of enlightenment, offering unique strategies to help listeners experience its many benefits. In this original and groundbreaking book, Andrew Newberg, M.D., and Mark Robert Waldman turn their attention to the pinnacle of the human experience: enlightenment. Through his brain-scan studies on Brazilian psychic mediums, Sufi mystics, Buddhist meditators, Franciscan nuns, Pentecostals, and participants in secular spirituality rituals, Newberg has discovered the specific neurological mechanisms associated with the enlightenment experience - and how we might activate those circuits in our own brains. In his survey of more than one thousand people who have experienced enlightenment, Newberg has also discovered that in the aftermath they have had profound, positive life changes. Enlightenment offers us the possibility to become permanently less stress-prone, to break bad habits, to improve our collaboration and creativity skills, and to lead happier, more satisfying lives. Relaying the story of his own transformational experience as well as including the stories of others who try to describe an event that is truly indescribable, Newberg brings us a new paradigm for deep and lasting change.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Human, All Too Human Subtitle: A Book for Free Spirits Author: Friedrich Nietzsche Narrator: Michael Lunts Format: Unabridged Length: 15 hrs and 26 mins Language: English Release date: 02-16-16 Publisher: Ukemi Audiobooks Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 28 votes Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy Publisher's Summary: It was with Human, All Too Human, first published in 1878, that Nietzsche developed the aphoristic style that so suited his challenging views and uncompromising style. The text is divided into three main sections: 'Of the First and Last Things', 'History of the Moral Feelings' and 'The Religious Life'. But the style remains the same: he declares the subjects - dream and civilisation; private ethics and world ethics; gratitude and revenge; well-wishing; vanity - and then discusses them in a few sentences or sometimes in a longer passage. This style enables him to cover an extraordinarily wide range of topics as his fertile and lively mind wander over man in his element. This audiobook also contains the two parts of volume II: 'Miscellaneous Maxims' and 'The Wanderer and His Shadow'. These two collections are less well known - unjustly so, as they are packed with Nietzsche's wonderfully uncompromising views and observation on a lucky dip of topics including debauchery, bach, danger in admiration, deception in love and dishonest praise. Here is an example: 'End and goal. Not every end is the goal. The end of a melody is not its goal, and yet if a melody has not reached its end, it has also not reached its goal. A parable.' All in all, this 15-hour collection in an appropriately conversational reading by Michael Lunts is a fascinating, at times infuriating yet always entertaining discovery.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Stoicism for Beginners Subtitle: Transform Your Life with Stoic Philosophy, Habits & Knowledge from Marcus Aurelius & Seneca Author: Gregory Moto Narrator: Jim D Johnston Format: Unabridged Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins Language: English Release date: 02-09-16 Publisher: Gregory Moto Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 126 votes Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy Publisher's Summary: Stoicism for Beginners - Ancient Actionable Advice to Improve Your Life! Are you ready to learn everything you need to know about the mindset and wisdom of the ancient Stoics? If so, you've come to the right place. Here's a preview of what I'm about to teach you in Stoicism for Beginners:

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Tao of Seneca Subtitle: Practical Letters from a Stoic Master, Volume 3 Author: Seneca presented by Tim Ferriss Audio Narrator: John A. Robinson Format: Unabridged Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins Language: English Release date: 01-19-16 Publisher: Seneca and Marcus, LLC Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 66 votes Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy Publisher's Summary: The Tao of Seneca (volumes 1-3) is an introduction to Stoic philosophy through the words of Seneca. If you study Seneca, you'll be in good company. He was popular with the educated elite of the Greco-Roman Empire, but Thomas Jefferson also had Seneca on his bedside table. Thought leaders in Silicon Valley tout the benefits of Stoicism, and NFL management, coaches, and players alike - from teams such as the Patriots and Seahawks - have embraced it because the principles make them better competitors. Stoicism is a no-nonsense philosophical system designed to produce dramatic real-world effects. Think of it as an ideal operating system for thriving in high-stress environments. This is your guide.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Tao of Seneca Subtitle: Practical Letters from a Stoic Master, Volume 1 Author: Seneca presented by Tim Ferriss Audio Narrator: John A. Robinson Format: Unabridged Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins Language: English Release date: 01-19-16 Publisher: Seneca and Marcus, LLC Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 782 votes Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy Publisher's Summary: The Tao of Seneca (volumes 1-3) is an introduction to Stoic philosophy through the words of Seneca. If you study Seneca, you'll be in good company. He was popular with the educated elite of the Greco-Roman Empire, but Thomas Jefferson also had Seneca on his bedside table. Thought leaders in Silicon Valley tout the benefits of Stoicism, and NFL management, coaches, and players alike - from teams such as the Patriots and Seahawks - have embraced it because the principles make them better competitors. Stoicism is a no-nonsense philosophical system designed to produce dramatic real-world effects. Think of it as an ideal operating system for thriving in high-stress environments. This is your guide.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Tao of Seneca Subtitle: Practical Letters from a Stoic Master, Volume 2 Author: Seneca presented by Tim Ferriss Audio Narrator: John A. Robinson Format: Unabridged Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins Language: English Release date: 01-19-16 Publisher: Seneca and Marcus, LLC Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 145 votes Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy Publisher's Summary: The Tao of Seneca (volumes 1-3) is an introduction to Stoic philosophy through the words of Seneca. If you study Seneca, you'll be in good company. He was popular with the educated elite of the Greco-Roman Empire, but Thomas Jefferson also had Seneca on his bedside table. Thought leaders in Silicon Valley tout the benefits of Stoicism, and NFL management, coaches, and players alike - from teams such as the Patriots and Seahawks - have embraced it because the principles make them better competitors. Stoicism is a no-nonsense philosophical system designed to produce dramatic real-world effects. Think of it as an ideal operating system for thriving in high-stress environments. This is your guide.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Moral Epistles Subtitle: 124 Letters to Lucilius Author: Seneca Narrator: James Cameron Stewart Format: Unabridged Length: 23 hrs and 18 mins Language: English Release date: 01-15-16 Publisher: Ukemi Audiobooks Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 98 votes Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy Publisher's Summary: Towards the end of his life, Seneca the Younger (c4 BCE-65 CE) began a correspondence with a friend in Sicily, later collected under the title The Moral Epistles. In these 124 letters, Seneca expresses, in a wise, steady and calm manner, the philosophy by which he lived - derived essentially from the Stoics. The letters deal with a variety of specific topics - often eminently practical - such as 'On Saving Time', 'On the Terrors of Death', 'On True and False Friendships', 'On Brawn and Brains' and 'On Old Age and Death'. His views are as relevant to us today as in his own time. He remarks on how we waste our time through lack of clarity of purpose, how we jump from one attraction to another and how fleeting life is. But these are letters to a friend, so the tone is not grandly didactic but friendly, personal and direct and speak to us across the centuries. Though not so well known as Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, The Moral Epistles are approachable, memorable and immensely rich in content - and especially so in this sympathetic reading by James Cameron Stewart. Translation Richard Gummere.