The Giants of Philosophy audio books explain the views of the most influential philosophers in history. Assuming no prior knowledge of the listener, each audio book presents the concerns, questions, interests, and overall world view of a great philosopher. Receive an education in philosophy -- the easy way -- on the following philsophers: Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Spinoza, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Dewey, and Sartre. These audio books are all narrated by Charlton Heston.
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| Aristotle
by Thomas C. Brickhouse
Few philosophers have so extensively influenced thought and language as Aristotle. His conception of the universe pervades Christian theology. |
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| Arthur Schopenhauer
by Mark Stone
Arthur Schopenhauer was the most articulate and influential pessimist in the history of human thought. |
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| Baruch Spinoza
by Thomas Cook
A Portuguese Jew living in Holland, Spinoza was excommunicated because of the unorthodox view he took of God. |
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| David Hume
by Nicholas Capaldi
David Hume (1711-1776) represented the culmination of the British philosophy of sense-experience. |
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| Friedrich Nietzsche
by Richard Schacht
Nietzsche condemned nearly all of the religious and philosophical thought of his day to blunt terms (e.g., God is dead). |
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| Immanuel Kant
by A.J. Mandt
Immanuel Kant's "transcendental" philosophy transcends the question of "what" we know to ask "how" we know it. |
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| Jean-Paul Sartre
by John Compton
Jean-Paul Sartre, a French philosopher, is perhaps the best known advocate of existentialism. In this view, no external authority gives life meaning: mankind is radically free and responsible. |
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| John Dewey
by John J. Stuhr
John Dewey was America's most influential philosopher. He wanted philosophy to rise above old tired disputes to address new, more vital questions and problems. |
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| Plato
by Berel Lang
Plato was the first great philosopher of the West to organize and record the issues and questions that define philosophy. |
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| Soren Kierkegaard
by George Connell
For Kierkegaard, truth is a subjective reality which we must live, not something to simply consider and discuss. |
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| St. Augustine
by Professor R. J. O Connell, S.J.
St. Augustine (354-430 A.D.) was the first great systematic Christian philosopher. |
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| St. Thomas Aquinas
by Professor Kenneth L. Schmitz
St. Thomas Aquinas is known for producing history’s most complete system of Christian philosophy. |
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