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Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
Available on: Digital 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: Digital 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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Beyond Good and Evil
by Friedrich Nietzsche
Available on: Digital Download
First published in 1886 at Nietzsche’s own expense, the book was not initially considered important.
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Emerson: The Mind on Fire
by Robert D. Richardson
Available on: Digital 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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The Value of Philosophy
by Bertrand Russell
Available on: Digital 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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The Ultimate Fate of My Universe
by Una Mccann
Available on: Digital Download
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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The Examined Life: Intro to Philosophy
by Greg Rheiman
Available on: Digital Download | Video Download
What makes a life meaningful, what makes it worth living?
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What Does It Mean To Be Human?
by Dallas Willard
Available on: Digital Download | Online Audio
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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Civil Disobedience
by Henry David Thoreau
Available on: Digital Download
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 Antichrist
by Friedrich Nietzsche
Available on: Digital 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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Philosophy of Love in the Western World
by Irving Singer
Available on: Video Download
This course is a seminar on the nature of love and sex, approached as topics both in philosophy and in literature.
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Francis Fukuyama: The End Of History Revisited
by Francis Fukuyama
Available on: Digital Download | Online Video
The End Of History Revisited with Francis Fukuyama speaking at a seminar hosted by The Long Now Foundation.
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The Heavenly Life
by James Allen
Available on: Digital Download
James Allen’s most famous work, As A Man Thinketh, has gained almost cult status among those studying spiritual mysticism.
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Tete-a-Tete: Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre
by Hazel Rowley
Available on: Digital Download | Online Audio | Online Video
They are one of the world's legendary couples.
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The Twilight of the Idols
by Friedrich Nietzsche
Available on: Digital 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 West and the Rest
by Roger Scruton
Available on: Online Audio | Online Video
The Intercollegiate Studies Institute Lecture Program assists in sponsoring lectures each year at the college, university, and preparatory school levels.
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Authors@Google: John Searle
by John Searle
Available on: Online Video
John Searle visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his book " Freedom and Neurobiology: Reflections on Free Will, Language, and Political Power."
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Philosophy at Stanford University
by Isabelle Stengers
Available on: Digital Download | Video Download
Welcome to the Stanford Philosophy Department. We are located in Buildings 90 and 100 in the Main Quad. The Main Office is located in Bldg 90.
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History of Philosophy and Christian Thought
by John M. Frame
Available on: Digital Download
A critical, historical survey of the development of the main schools of philosophy and the principal developments in Christian doctrine and thought.
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Can Only One Religion be True?
by Peter Kreeft
Available on: Digital Download | Online Audio
A professor of philosophy at Boston College.
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Keynote Lecture with Charles Taylor
by Charles Taylor
Available on: Digital Download | Online Video
A Key Note Lecture by Philosopher Charles Taylor at the Secular Imaginaries Conference.
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England: An Elegy
by Roger Scruton
Available on: Online Audio | Online Video
The Intercollegiate Studies Institute Lecture Program assists in sponsoring lectures each year at the college, university, and preparatory school levels.
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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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Conversation with Paul Krugman
by Paul Krugman
Available on: Digital Download | Online Audio | Online Video
New York Times columnist and economist Paul Krugman discusses his new book, The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century with WBUR's Tom Ashbrook.
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Philosophy of Film
by Irving Singer
Available on: Video Download
This course is a seminar on the philosophical analysis of film art, with an emphasis on the ways in which it creates meaning through techniques that define a formal structure.
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