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Just a century after it had begun, philosophy entered its greatest age with the appearance of Socrates, who spent so much of his time talking about philosophy on the streets of Athens that he never got around to writing anything down. His method of aggressive questioning, called dialectic, was...

Hume reduced philosophy to ruins: he denied the existence of everything—except our actual perceptions themselves. I alone exist, he argued, and the world is nothing more than part of my consciousness. Yet we know that the world remains, and we go on as before. What Hume expressed was the...

Augustine’s spiritual crisis and conversion to Christianity, detailed in his Confessions, ultimately led him to his major contribution to philosophy: the fusion of the two doctrines of Christianity and Neoplatonism. This not only provided Christianity with a strong intellectual backing but...

With Friedrich Nietzsche, philosophy was dangerous not only for philosophers but for everyone. Nietzsche ultimately went mad, but his ideas presaged a collective madness that had horrific consequences in Europe in the early 1900s. Though his philosophy is more one of aphorisms and insights than...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. How to live without fear. A clear, quote-driven introduction to the most misunderstood school of ancient thought, from Epicurus's Garden to Lucretius's Rome, and what it still offers anyone trying to live well now...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Everything that survives of the most slandered philosopher in history: the letters, the doctrines, the fragments. Pleasure, it turns out, meant something quieter than you've heard...

Everyone already knows the old stories. The wooden horse was not a gift. Flattery is bait. A seal can be forged. The weak sometimes only look weak. The unbeatable usually have one quiet place where they end. We learn these lessons early and then file them where they can do no further harm and no further good: under myth, under fable, under the reading we were assigned as children.

Most philosophy sounds wise in a quiet room. The test is what remains when the room gets loud. VirtueCoded turns practical philosophy into personal architecture: structures that help truth, courage, restraint, responsibility, and care survive contact with pressure. Across work, money, leadership, relationships, burnout, and fatherhood, Jedakiah Roper asks a demanding question: What does your life prove you believe? These essays reject borrowed routines and polished slogans in favor of principles tested against real constraints, and against more than a hundred and sixty cited sources.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The private notebook of a Roman emperor, notes to himself, never meant for us. A complete new translation from the Greek that sounds the way it felt to write...

The Ptolemaic system of the universe, with the earth at the center, had held sway since antiquity as authoritative in philosophy, science, and church teaching. Following his observations of the heavenly bodies, Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) abandoned the geocentric system for a heliocentric...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The distilled common sense of antiquity, one line at a time — the Golden Verses of Pythagoras, the Delphic maxims, Cato's Distichs, and the Sentences of Publilius Syrus, gathered in one volume...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The emperor who exiled him is dead and being made a god. Seneca writes the scene where the gods refuse to let him in...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Philosophy before it had prose: every surviving fragment of Xenophanes, Parmenides, Empedocles and Anaxagoras, translated fresh from the Greek, with the ancient life of each man...

The Consolation of Philosophy—a moving and profound exploration of the mysteries of suffering, evil, fate, and freewill—has inspired readers for more than a millennium, from Thomas Aquinas and Dante to Chaucer and C. S. Lewis. Although Boethius, a late-Roman Christian, wrote The Consolation...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Les Lettres à Lucilius de Sénèque réunissent la correspondance philosophique du grand stoïcien romain à son ami Lucilius. À travers plus d'une centaine de lettres, Sénèque explore le temps, l'amitié, la mort, la vertu, la richesse, le désir...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The teacher of Epictetus, exiled three times for philosophy. His surviving lectures are Stoicism at its most practical: food, family, exile, and how to live with both hands...

A lo largo de la historia, algunos libros han cambiado el mundo. Han transformado la manera en que nos vemos a nosotros mismos y a los demás. Han inspirado el debate, la discordia, la guerra y la revolución. Han iluminado, indignado, provocado y consolado. Han enriquecido vidas, y también las han destruido. Taurus publica las obras de los grandes pensadores, pioneros, radicales y visionarios cuyas ideas sacudieron la civilización y nos impulsaron a ser quienes somos.

Teil 2 des Klassikers der stoischen Philosophie. Nach der Lesung der ersten 52 Briefe des 1. Teils findet mit dem hier vorliegenden 2. Teil die Lesung der Briefe an Lucilius nun ihre Fortsetzung. Auch in den hier zu hörenden Briefen 53 bis 84 widmet sich Seneca der tiefsinnigen Einführung seines Freundes und Schülers Lucilius in die Philosophie der Stoa. Im Zentrum der Briefe steht dabei die Tugend als das einzig wirklich anzustrebende Gut. Dieses Hörbuch vereint als 2. Teil der vierteiligen Hörbuchreihe „Seneca – Briefe an Lucilius" in vollständiger Lesung die Briefe 53 bis 84.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Des Devoirs est l'un des grands traités de morale de Cicéron, écrit pour son fils Marcus alors que l'auteur approchait la fin de sa vie. Dans ce dialogue adressé au jeune homme, Cicéron cherche à transmettre ce qu'il a de plus précieux : une...

In Of Peace of Mind, the Roman philosopher Seneca explores one of humanity's most enduring concerns: how to achieve inner calm amid the distractions, ambitions and anxieties of everyday life. Drawing on the principles of Stoicism, Seneca shows how self-knowledge, moderation and purposeful action can free us from worry and help us live with greater confidence and serenity.