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Marcus Aurelius
- The Stoic Emperor
- De: Donald J. Robertson
- Narrado por: Donald J. Robertson
- Duración: 6 h y 34 m
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Experience the world of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius and the tremendous challenges he faced and overcame with the help of Stoic philosophy.
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Robertson does it again
- De J. Gilmore en 02-17-24
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Memories, Dreams, Reflections
- De: C.G. Jung
- Narrado por: James Cameron Stewart
- Duración: 16 h y 51 m
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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.
De: C.G. Jung
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How to Live
- Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
- De: Sarah Bakewell
- Narrado por: Davina Porter
- Duración: 13 h y 26 m
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This question obsessed Renaissance writers, none more than Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, perhaps the first recognizably modern individual....
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Interesting and in parts Inspired.
- De Darwin8u en 05-21-12
De: Sarah Bakewell
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I've Been Thinking...
- De: Daniel C. Dennett
- Narrado por: Graham Winton
- Duración: 14 h y 27 m
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Daniel C. Dennett—preeminent philosopher and cognitive scientist—has spent his career creating the basis for a naturalistic account of consciousness with acumen and elegance. I’ve Been Thinking traces the development of Dennett’s own intellect and instructs us how we too can become good thinkers....
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Some pockets of wisdom but mostly self-gloating
- De Abraham P. en 10-16-23
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At the Existentialist Café
- Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
- De: Sarah Bakewell
- Narrado por: Antonia Beamish
- Duración: 14 h y 39 m
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Paris, 1933: Three contemporaries meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse - Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and longtime friend Raymond Aron....
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Consistent look at incoherent philosophy
- De Gary en 06-19-16
De: Sarah Bakewell
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Symposium
- De: Plato
- Narrado por: full cast
- Duración: 2 h y 31 m
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The Greek word sumposion means a drinking party, and the party described in Plato's Symposium is one supposedly given in the year 416 BC by the playwright Agathon....
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Greek Philosophy over a Good Wine
- De Cathy Dopp en 02-16-06
De: Plato
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Marcus Aurelius
- The Stoic Emperor
- De: Donald J. Robertson
- Narrado por: Donald J. Robertson
- Duración: 6 h y 34 m
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Experience the world of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius and the tremendous challenges he faced and overcame with the help of Stoic philosophy.
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Robertson does it again
- De J. Gilmore en 02-17-24
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Memories, Dreams, Reflections
- De: C.G. Jung
- Narrado por: James Cameron Stewart
- Duración: 16 h y 51 m
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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.
De: C.G. Jung
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How to Live
- Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
- De: Sarah Bakewell
- Narrado por: Davina Porter
- Duración: 13 h y 26 m
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This question obsessed Renaissance writers, none more than Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, perhaps the first recognizably modern individual....
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Interesting and in parts Inspired.
- De Darwin8u en 05-21-12
De: Sarah Bakewell
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I've Been Thinking...
- De: Daniel C. Dennett
- Narrado por: Graham Winton
- Duración: 14 h y 27 m
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Daniel C. Dennett—preeminent philosopher and cognitive scientist—has spent his career creating the basis for a naturalistic account of consciousness with acumen and elegance. I’ve Been Thinking traces the development of Dennett’s own intellect and instructs us how we too can become good thinkers....
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Some pockets of wisdom but mostly self-gloating
- De Abraham P. en 10-16-23
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At the Existentialist Café
- Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
- De: Sarah Bakewell
- Narrado por: Antonia Beamish
- Duración: 14 h y 39 m
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Paris, 1933: Three contemporaries meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse - Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and longtime friend Raymond Aron....
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Consistent look at incoherent philosophy
- De Gary en 06-19-16
De: Sarah Bakewell
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Symposium
- De: Plato
- Narrado por: full cast
- Duración: 2 h y 31 m
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The Greek word sumposion means a drinking party, and the party described in Plato's Symposium is one supposedly given in the year 416 BC by the playwright Agathon....
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Greek Philosophy over a Good Wine
- De Cathy Dopp en 02-16-06
De: Plato
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Plato of Athens
- A Life in Philosophy
- De: Robin Waterfield
- Narrado por: Tristam Summers
- Duración: 9 h y 52 m
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Plato of Athens is the perfect introduction to the man and his work....
De: Robin Waterfield
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The Rigor of Angels
- Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
- De: William Egginton
- Narrado por: David Glass
- Duración: 10 h y 14 m
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Argentine poet Jorge Luis Borges was madly in love when his life was shattered by painful heartbreak....
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The most ridiculous narration
- De Anonymous User en 03-07-24
De: William Egginton
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The First Philosophers
- The Presocratics and Sophists
- De: Robin Waterfield
- Narrado por: Adrian Hobart
- Duración: 15 h y 21 m
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This volume contains a translation of all the most important fragments of the Presocratics and Sophists, and of the most informative testimonia from ancient sources....
De: Robin Waterfield
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The Shadow of Vesuvius
- A Life of Pliny
- De: Daisy Dunn
- Narrado por: Mike Grady
- Duración: 8 h y 33 m
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When Pliny the Elder perished at Stabiae during the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79, he left behind an enormous compendium of knowledge, his 37-volume Natural History, and a teenaged nephew who revered him as a father....
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Enjoyable but lost track at times
- De Joshua Miller en 12-16-20
De: Daisy Dunn
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The Courtier and the Heretic
- Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World
- De: Matthew Stewart
- Narrado por: Graham Rowat
- Duración: 13 h y 3 m
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In this exquisitely written philosophical romance of attraction and repulsion, greed and virtue, religion and heresy, Matthew Stewart gives narrative form to an epic contest of ideas that shook the seventeenth century—and continues today....
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Interesting for fans; awful narrator.
- De 11104 en 06-04-24
De: Matthew Stewart
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The Children of Athena
- Greek Writers and Thinkers in the Age of Rome, 150 BC-AD 400
- De: Charles Freeman
- Narrado por: Mark Elstob
- Duración: 12 h y 36 m
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In 146 BC, Greece yielded to the military might of the Roman Republic; sixty years later, when Athens and other Greek city-states rebelled against Rome, the general Lucius Cornelius Sulla destroyed the city of Socrates and Plato, laying waste to the famous Academy where Aristotle had studied....
De: Charles Freeman
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Martin Heidegger
- De: George Steiner
- Narrado por: Robert Blumenfeld
- Duración: 6 h
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With characteristic lucidity and style, Steiner makes Heidegger's immensely difficult body of work accessible to the general reader.
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Fantastic - very approachable yet competent
- De Bob en 04-15-19
De: George Steiner
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In My Own Way
- De: Alan Watts
- Narrado por: Jeremy Arthur
- Duración: 13 h y 39 m
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Macmillan Audio presents In My Own Way, Alan Watts' acclaimed autobiography, published for the first time in audio....
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This is Alan Watts at his very best, as a free spirit.
- De Gene Levinson en 03-20-19
De: Alan Watts
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The Visionaries
- Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the Power of Philosophy in Dark Times
- De: Wolfram Eilenberger, Shaun Whiteside
- Narrado por: Hannah Curtis
- Duración: 12 h y 26 m
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The period from 1933 to 1943 was one of the darkest and most chaotic in human history, as the Second World War unfolded with unthinkable cruelty. It was also a crucial decade in the dramatic, intersecting lives of some of history’s greatest philosophers....
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Very pleased at the treatment of these 4 women
- De Amazon Customer en 10-04-23
De: Wolfram Eilenberger, y otros
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Unended Quest
- An Intellectual Autobiography
- De: Karl Popper
- Narrado por: Martyn Swain
- Duración: 8 h y 26 m
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At the age of eight, Karl Popper was puzzling over the idea of infinity and by fifteen was beginning to take a keen interest in his father's well-stocked library of books. Unended Quest recounts these moments and many others in the life of one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century....
De: Karl Popper
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Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)
- De: Henry David Thoreau
- Narrado por: Pete Simonelli
- Duración: 11 h y 33 m
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At Walden Pond, Henry David Thoreau reflected on simpler living in the natural world. By removing himself from the distractions of materialism, Thoreau hoped to not only improve his spiritual life but also gain a better understanding of society through solitary introspection....
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Boring
- De calk123 en 07-27-19
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Nietzsche
- Fighting Demons
- De: Stefan Zweig, Vanessa Walsh - translator
- Narrado por: Tyler Boss
- Duración: 3 h y 1 m
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A dazzling biographical study of the greatest German philosopher of the nineteenth century by one of the most widely read German-language authors...
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Stunning
- De Hammad Khan en 07-02-23
De: Stefan Zweig, y otros
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Parfit
- A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality
- De: David Edmonds
- Narrado por: Zeb Soanes
- Duración: 13 h y 14 m
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This audiobook narrated by Zeb Soanes paints an entertaining and illuminating portrait of a brilliant philosopher who tried to rescue morality from nihilism....
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Loved it
- De Anna Karenina en 07-05-23
De: David Edmonds
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The Age of Genius
- The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind
- De: A. C. Grayling
- Narrado por: Ric Jerrom
- Duración: 14 h y 38 m
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The Age of Genius explores the eventful intertwining of outward event and inner intellectual life to tell, in all its richness and depth, the story of the 17th century in Europe....
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Today is a function of the 17th century
- De Gary en 10-22-16
De: A. C. Grayling
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The Harvard Psychedelic Club
- How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America
- De: Don Lattin
- Narrado por: John Pruden
- Duración: 7 h y 47 m
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Journalist Don Lattin provides the funny, moving inside story of the "Cambridge Quartet"....
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A Fascinating, Engaging Story, Expertly Told
- De Gillian Culff en 12-12-19
De: Don Lattin
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Beyond the Wager
- The Christian Brilliance of Blaise Pascal
- De: Douglas Groothuis
- Narrado por: Lyle Blaker
- Duración: 7 h y 11 m
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Blaise Pascal, the seventeenth-century French philosopher and scientist, is perhaps best known for his "wager," an argument about the existence of God. But there was much more to Pascal and his brilliance.
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Great book
- De Jim en 04-13-24
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The Marriage Question
- George Eliot's Double Life
- De: Clare Carlisle
- Narrado por: Clare Carlisle
- Duración: 10 h y 39 m
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In her mid-thirties, Marian Evans transformed herself into George Eliot—an author celebrated for her genius as soon as she published her debut novel. During those years she also found her life partner, George Lewes-writer, philosopher, and married father of three....
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Brilliant
- De Greg Murphy en 10-01-23
De: Clare Carlisle
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Apprenticed to a Himalayan Master
- A Yogi's Autobiography
- De: Sri M.
- Narrado por: Gaurav Sajjanhar
- Duración: 10 h y 15 m
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The author Sri "M" is an extraordinary individual. At the young age of 19 and a half, he travelled to snow-clad Himalayas from Kerala, and there he met and lived for several years with a "real-time" yogi, Babaji....
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The book lacks description of end result
- De Rohini Rajagopalan en 01-07-20
De: Sri M.
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How to Think Like a Woman
- Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind
- De: Regan Penaluna
- Narrado por: Angie Kane
- Duración: 8 h y 26 m
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In How to Think Like a Woman, Penaluna blends memoir, biography, and criticism to tell the stories of four women, weaving throughout an alternative history of philosophy. This is a moving meditation on what philosophy could look like if women were treated equally....
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The untold story of philosophy
- De Mahmoud Rasmi en 04-07-23
De: Regan Penaluna
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The Rebel's Clinic
- The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon
- De: Adam Shatz
- Narrado por: Terrence Kidd
- Duración: 15 h y 57 m
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In the era of Black Lives Matter, Frantz Fanon's shadow looms larger than ever. He was the intellectual activist of the postcolonial era, and his writings about race, revolution, and the psychology of power continue to shape radical movements across the world.
De: Adam Shatz
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American Philosophy
- A Love Story
- De: John Kaag
- Narrado por: Josh Bloomberg
- Duración: 8 h y 3 m
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Part intellectual history, part memoir, American Philosophy is an invigorating investigation of American pragmatism and the wisdom that underlies a meaningful life....
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Awesome Book! But..
- De Kye Sonne en 04-02-17
De: John Kaag
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Hannah Arendt
- A Life in Dark Times
- De: Anne C. Heller
- Narrado por: Tavia Gilbert
- Duración: 4 h y 11 m
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Hannah Arendt was a polarizing cultural theorist—extolled by her peers as a visionary and berated by her critics as a poseur and a fraud. In this comprehensive biography, Anne C. Heller tracks the source of Arendt’s contradictions and achievements....
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Passionately narrated, beautifully written
- De Anonymous User en 09-20-23
De: Anne C. Heller
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Goddess of the Market
- Ayn Rand and the American Right
- De: Jennifer Burns
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 13 h y 36 m
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Drawing on unprecedented access to Rand's private papers and the original, unedited versions of Rand's journals, Jennifer Burns offers a groundbreaking reassessment of this key cultural figure....
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Unfortunate
- De Andrej Drapal en 03-14-18
De: Jennifer Burns
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We Are Free to Change the World
- Hannah Arendt's Lessons in Love and Disobedience
- De: Lyndsey Stonebridge
- Narrado por: Cosima Shaw
- Duración: 10 h y 13 m
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A timely guide on how to live—and think—through the challenges of our century drawn from the life and thought of political theorist Hannah Arendt, one of the twentieth century’s foremost opponents of totalitarianism....