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Selected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Available on: Audio Download
LearnOutLoud.com presents The Selected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1. The 5 essays contained on this audio program have been hand selected and represent specifically Emerson's early career as a writer.
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Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
Available on: Audio Download
Walden by Henry David Thoreau is one of the best-known non-fiction books written by an American. Published in 1854, it details Thoreau’s life for two years, two months, and two days around the shores of Walden Pond.
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Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment?
by Immanuel Kant
Available on: Audio Download
Written in 1784, "Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment?" is one of philosopher Immanuel Kant's most influential and famous essays. Here Kant addresses the causes for a lack of Enlightenment in society, and the preconditions a person must meet in order to gain it.
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra
by Friedrich Nietzsche
Available on: Audio Download
Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a 19th century literary masterpiece and key philosophical work by Nietzsche.
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Emerson: The Mind on Fire
by Robert D. Richardson
Available on: Audio Download | Online Audio
How do Emerson's ideas about freedom hold up in our age? Did this 19th century abolitionist and philosopher embrace the world around him or retreat into the world of ideas?
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Civil Disobedience
by Henry David Thoreau
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Classic essay by Thoreau explaining why he went to jail rather than submit to a tax he felt unjust, Civil Disobedience served as inspiration to both Gandhi and Tolstoy and continues to be regarded as a definitive statement of the rights of the individual within the state.
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The Madman
by Kahlil Gibran
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Kahlil Gibran (author of The Prophet) was a Lebanese-American philosophical essayist, novelist, mystical poet and artist...
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The Value of Philosophy
by Bertrand Russell
Available on: Audio Download
The Value of Philosophy is taken from the final chapter of Bertrand Russell's larger 1912 work "Problems of Philosophy".
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Bertrand Russell: Appearance and Reality
by Bertrand Russell
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Appearance and Reality from The Problems of Philosophy
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Beyond Good and Evil
by Friedrich Nietzsche
Available on: Audio Download
First published in 1886 at Nietzsche’s own expense, the book was not initially considered important.
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Anthem
by Ayn Rand
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Anthem is set in a distant collectivist future, when every form and emblem of individualism have been erased and society has reverted to a preindustrial level.
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The Second Treatise on Government
by John Locke
Available on: Audio Download | Podcast
One of the leading liberal thinkers in 17th century England, Locke's ideas were drawn on heavily by Thomas Jefferson when writing the Declaration of Independence.
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The Twilight of the Idols
by Friedrich Nietzsche
Available on: Audio Download
Of The Twilight of the Idols, Nietzsche said: "If anyone should desire to obtain a rapid sketch of how everything before my time was standing on its head, he should begin reading me in this book."
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The Ultimate Fate of My Universe
by Una Mccann
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The Ultimate Fate of My Universe is a philosophical beyond the grave monologue. Take a walk on the philosophical wild side and listen to this satirical dark comedy.
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Francis Fukuyama: The End Of History Revisited
by Francis Fukuyama
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The End Of History Revisited with Francis Fukuyama speaking at a seminar hosted by The Long Now Foundation.
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Sadhana, the Realisation of Life
by Rabindranath Tagore
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Sadhana is a collection of essays...
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
by Mary Wollstonecraft
Available on: Audio Download
Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) is best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman in which she argued that women are not naturally inferior to men, but only appeared to be because they lacked education.
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What Does It Mean To Be Human?
by Dallas Willard
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Against the oft-heard claims of a culture that denies the existence of human nature and places feelings and desires at the center of human existence, Dr. Willard insists that the purpose of human life is to love and serve others and to be loved and served by them.
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The Heavenly Life
by James Allen
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James Allen’s most famous work, As A Man Thinketh, has gained almost cult status among those studying spiritual mysticism.
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The Antichrist
by Friedrich Nietzsche
Available on: Audio Download
Save for his raucous, rhapsodical autobiography, Ecce Homo, The Antichrist is the last thing that Nietzsche ever wrote, and so it may be accepted as a statement of some of his most salient ideas in their final form.
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Keynote Lecture with Charles Taylor
by Charles Taylor
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A Key Note Lecture by Philosopher Charles Taylor at the Secular Imaginaries Conference.
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Tete-a-Tete: Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre
by Hazel Rowley
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They are one of the world's legendary couples.
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Can Only One Religion be True?
by Peter Kreeft
Available on: Audio Download | Online Audio
A professor of philosophy at Boston College.
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Ram Dass: Spirited Survivor
by Ram Dass
Available on: Online Audio
Sixties guru Ram Dass is one of the world's best known spiritual voices.
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Studies in Pessimism
by Arthur Schopenhauer
Available on: Audio Download
Arthur Schopenhauer, an early 19th century philosopher, made significant contributions to metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics.
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