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    • A Message for an Age of Anxiety
    • By: Alan Watts, Deepak Chopra - introduction MD
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 62 ratings
    • In The Wisdom of Insecurity, Watts explains complex concepts in beautifully simple terms, making this the kind of book you can return to again and again for comfort and insight in challenging times....

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    • By: Bertrand Russell
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 38 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 289 ratings
    • Hailed as “lucid and magisterial” by The Observer, this book is universally acclaimed as the outstanding one-volume work on the subject of Western philosophy....

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    • Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future
    • By: Friedrich Nietzsche
    • Narrated by: Steven Van Doren
    • Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 08-03-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 549 ratings
    • In Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche attacks past philosophers for their alleged lack of critical sense and blind acceptance of Christian premises....

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    • By: Francis Fukuyama
    • Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
    • Length: 15 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 08-14-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 336 ratings
    • Ever since its first publication in 1992, The End of History and the Last Man has provoked controversy and debate. Francis Fukuyama's prescient analysis of religious fundamentalism, politics, scientific progress, ethical codes, and war is essential....

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    • By: Jiddu Krishnamurti
    • Narrated by: Jim Tedder
    • Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 490 ratings
    • Described by the Dalai Lama as “one of the greatest thinkers of the age”, Jiddu Krishnamurti has influenced millions throughout the 20th century....

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    • Meditations on the First Philosophy: Principles of Philosophy
    • By: René Descartes
    • Narrated by: James Adams
    • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 10-30-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 292 ratings
    • By calling everything into doubt, Descartes laid the foundations of modern philosophy....

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    • 3 Books In 1: How to Make Smarter Decisions, Conquer Logical Fallacies, and Sharpen Your Thinking
    • By: Thinknetic
    • Narrated by: Adrian M. Lopez
    • Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • In today's fast world, it's important to have certain skills for success. With so much fake news and information everywhere, critical thinking and logic are crucial. These skills help us think well and make good decisions.

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Roger Scruton
    • Narrated by: Kyle Munley
    • Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 05-25-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
    • Kant is arguably the most influential modern philosopher, but also one of the most difficult. Roger Scruton tackles his exceptionally complex subject with a strong hand, exploring the background to Kant's work and showing why the Critique of Pure Reason has proved so enduring....

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    • The Birth of the Prison
    • By: Michel Foucault
    • Narrated by: Simon Prebble
    • Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 09-23-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 479 ratings
    • This groundbreaking audiobook by Michel Foucault, the most influential philosopher since Sartre, compels us to reevaluate our assumptions about the ensuing reforms in the penal institutions of the West....

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    • Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope
    • By: Sarah Bakewell
    • Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
    • Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 90 ratings
    • The bestselling author of How to Live and At the Existentialist Café explores seven hundred years of writers, thinkers, scientists, and artists, all trying to understand what it means to be truly human....

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    • By: Paul Strathern
    • Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
    • Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
    • Release date: 04-13-04
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 984 ratings
    • With Friedrich Nietzsche, philosophy was dangerous not only for philosophers but for everyone....

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    • How Activist Scholarship Made Everything About Race, Gender, and Identity - and Why This Harms Everybody
    • By: Helen Pluckrose, James Lindsay
    • Narrated by: Helen Pluckrose
    • Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 10-19-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,744 ratings
    • Have you heard that language is violence and that science is sexist? Have you read that certain people shouldn't practice yoga? Or been told that being obese is healthy, that there is no such thing as biological sex, or that only White people can be racist? Listen to find out more....

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    • Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the Power of Philosophy in Dark Times
    • By: Wolfram Eilenberger, Shaun Whiteside
    • Narrated by: Hannah Curtis
    • Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • 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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    • By: Alasdair MacIntyre
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 03-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 349 ratings
    • In this classic work, Alasdair MacIntyre examines the historical and conceptual roots of the idea of virtue, diagnoses the reasons for its absence in personal and public life, and offers a tentative proposal for its recovery....

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    • By: John Locke
    • Narrated by: James Langton
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 496 ratings
    • Often considered the foundation of political liberalism, John Locke's Two Treatises of Government was first published anonymously in 1689, in the wake of England's Glorious Revolution.....

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    • An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science and Spirituality
    • By: Ken Wilber
    • Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
    • Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 12-09-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 726 ratings
    • In A Theory of Everything, Wilber uses clear, nontechnical language to present complex, cutting-edge theories that integrate the realms of body, mind, soul, and spirit.....

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    • A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
    • By: Michel Foucault
    • Narrated by: Dave Gillies
    • Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 144 ratings
    • Madness and Civilization 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....

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    • By: Ken Wilber
    • Narrated by: Steve Grad, Willow Pearson
    • Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 07-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 199 ratings
    • A Brief History of Everything is an altogether friendly and accessible account of men and women's place in a universe of sex, soul, and spirit, by Ken Wilber. Wilber examines the course of evolution as the unfolding manifestation of Spirit, from matter to life to mind....

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