c. 399-380 BCE
Apology of Socrates
Plato
2 parts · 1h 19m
Library progress
0%
Books
0/55
Parts
0/1941
Time
0m/805h 12m
The history of philosophy, read aloud
Twenty-four centuries of thought, in the order it unfolded — from Plato’s Athens to Camus.
Listening as a guest — your progress is saved on this device. Sign in to sync across devices
Antiquity
c. 399 BCE – 3rd c. CE
c. 380 BCE
Phaedo
Plato
8 parts · 3h 3m
c. 385-370 BCE
Symposium
Plato
3 parts · 2h 15m
c. 380 BCE
Republic
Plato
41 parts · 13h 13m
c. 350 BCE
Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle
10 parts · 10h 0m
c. 350 BCE
Politics
Aristotle
30 parts · 9h 14mc. 335 BCE
Poetics
Aristotle
11 parts · 2h 23m
c. 4th century BCE
Metaphysics
Aristotle
32 parts · 16h 3m
c. 300 BCE
Letter to Menoeceus
Epicurus
1 part · 12m
c. 50 BCE
On the Nature of Things
Lucretius
19 parts · 10h 55m44 BCE
On Duties
Cicero
11 parts · 6h 20mc. 108 CE
Discourses
Epictetus
96 parts · 13h 57mc. 125 CE
Enchiridion
Epictetus
5 parts · 47m
c. 170-180
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
15 parts · 6h 59mc. 3rd century
Enneads
Plotinus
91 parts · 54h 11m
The Medieval World
397 – 1274
397-400
Confessions
Augustine
31 parts · 13h 49m
524
The Consolation of Philosophy
Boethius
41 parts · 5h 13m1077-1078
Proslogion
Anselm
5 parts
1265-1274
Summa Theologica
Thomas Aquinas
577 parts · 292h 18m
Renaissance & Early Modern
1516 – 1678
1516
Utopia
Thomas More
12 parts · 3h 53m1513/1532
The Prince
Niccolo Machiavelli
16 parts · 5h 54m
1620
Novum Organum / The New Organon
Francis Bacon
22 parts · 8h 30m1637
Discourse on Method
Rene Descartes
6 parts · 2h 29m
1641
Meditations on First Philosophy
Rene Descartes
9 parts · 3h 29m
1651
Leviathan, Books I-II
Thomas Hobbes
32 parts · 11h 33m
1670
Theologico-Political Treatise
Benedict de Spinoza
23 parts · 9h 59m
1677
Ethics
Benedict de Spinoza
62 parts · 11h 54m
1670/1678
Pensees
Blaise Pascal
19 parts · 11h 15m
The Enlightenment
1689 – 1792
1689
Two Treatises of Civil Government
John Locke
34 parts · 11h 4m
1689
Essay Concerning Human Understanding
John Locke
41 parts · 17h 23m1710
Principles of Human Knowledge
George Berkeley
8 parts · 3h 38m
1714
Monadology
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
2 parts · 52m
1739-1740
A Treatise of Human Nature
David Hume
95 parts · 30h 52m
1748
Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
David Hume
19 parts · 5h 54m
1755
Discourse on Inequality
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
6 parts · 2h 45m
1759
Theory of Moral Sentiments
Adam Smith
31 parts · 12h 44m
1762
The Social Contract
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
48 parts · 4h 46m
1781/1787
Critique of Pure Reason
Immanuel Kant
48 parts · 26h 9m
1785
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
Immanuel Kant
6 parts · 3h 21m
1788
Critique of Practical Reason
Immanuel Kant
19 parts · 6h 43m
1789
Principles of Morals and Legislation
Jeremy Bentham
29 parts · 14h 34m
1792
Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Mary Wollstonecraft
21 parts · 9h 46m
Modern & Contemporary
1807 – 19421807
Phenomenology of Mind / Spirit
G. W. F. Hegel
27 parts · 13h 12m
1818
World as Will and Idea
Arthur Schopenhauer
45 parts · 22h 41m1843
Fear and Trembling
Soren Kierkegaard
4 parts · 1h 16m1848
Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
3 parts · 1h 36m1859
On Liberty
John Stuart Mill
6 parts · 5h 21m
1863
Utilitarianism
John Stuart Mill
7 parts · 3h 28m
1867
Capital, Vol. I
Karl Marx
82 parts · 39h 18m
1883-1885
Thus Spake Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
81 parts · 12h 39m1886
Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche
10 parts · 8h 2m
1907
Pragmatism
William James
17 parts · 6h 32m1912
The Problems of Philosophy
Bertrand Russell
15 parts · 4h 50m
1921
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Ludwig Wittgenstein
6 parts · 4h 14m1942
The Myth of Sisyphus
Albert Camus
1 part