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Discovering the Philosopher in You
by Colin McGinn
Credits: Audio Download
Everyone has their own inner philosopher—a voice within that asks, oh so insistently, philosophical questions.
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Faith and Reason: The Philosophy of Religion
by Peter Kreeft
Credits: Audio Download
Through the ages, mankind has pursued questions of faith in something beyond the world of ordinary experience. Is there a God? How can we explain the presence of evil? Do humans, or human souls, live on after death? Is there a hell?
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Reflections on the Mind of Plato
by Joseph Norio Uemura
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Since Plato's day every generation has interpreted Plato's work differently. Joseph Uemura guides us through six dialogues that treat the most important human issues through a dialectical quest.
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The Enlightenment: Reason, Tolerance, and Humanity
by James Schmidt
Credits: Audio Download
The Enlightenment stands at the threshold of the modern age. It elevated the natural sciences to the preeminent position they enjoy in modern culture. It inaugurated a skepticism toward tradition and authority that decisively shaped modern attitudes in religion, morality, and politics.
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Philosophy and the Law: How Judges Reason
by Stephen Mathis
Credits: Audio Download
Do judges deduce their decisions from legal rules and principles, or do they decide cases based on what is fair given the facts at hand?
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Spinoza: Religion and Politics
by Sherwin T. Wine
Credits: Audio Download
Baruch Spinoza is considered by some to be the first modern thinker. Explore his story and his crucial work on personal and political philosophy.
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Plato and Aristotle
by Aryeh Kosman
Credits: Audio Download
This course is an introduction to the philosophical thought of the two most important philosophical figures of ancient Greece. By working through parts of their central texts and thoughts, we will gain an understanding of Plato and Aristotle's relevance in the past and today as well.
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Odyssey of the West VI - A Classic Education through the Great Books: The Twentieth Century
by Timothy B. Shutt
Credits: Audio Download
The Odyssey of the West series, a grand exploration of art, literature, revolutionary theories, and intellectual progress through the ages, concludes with a fascinating look at the twentieth century.
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Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction
by Edward Craig
Credits: Audio Download
This lively and engaging book is the ideal introduction for anyone who has ever been puzzled by what philosophy is or what it is for.
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Political Theory: The Classic Texts and Their Continuing Relevance
by Joshua Kaplan
Credits: Audio Download
This exciting course introduces vital works of political theory from history's greatest minds.
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Ideas that Shaped Mankind
by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
Credits: Audio Download
Ideas That Shaped Mankind flows from internationally respected historian Felipe Fernández-Armesto's views on the notion that man's capacity to produce ideas in itself brings about sweeping changes in the world.
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Eternal Truths
by iMinds Audio
Credits: Audio Download
Learn the philosophy of the Eternal Truths with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.
iMinds brings knowledge to your MP3 with 8 minute information segments to broaden your mind.
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Philosophy of Mind
by Andrew Pessin
Credits: Audio Download
The nature of the mind lies at the heart of the eternal human quest for understanding. What does it mean to think?
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Odyssey of the West V - A Classic Education through the Great Books: Enlightenment, Revolution, and Renewal
by Timothy B. Shutt
Credits: Audio Download
The Odyssey of the West series continues it grand exploration of the literature, revolutionary theories, and feats of intellectual progress that have shaped-and continue to shape-the modern world.
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Visions of Utopia: Philosophy and the Perfect Society
by Fred E. Baumann
Credits: Audio Download
With the characteristically human abilities to reason and imagine comes, apparently inevitably, the longing for imaginary but plausible places and conditions where everything is exactly as it should be and all our needs and desires are satisfied, including the need not to be jaded by satisfaction.
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Schopenhauer In 90 Minutes
by Paul Strathern
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
In Schopenhauer in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Schopenhauer’s life and ideas and explains their influence on man’s struggle to understand his existence in the world.
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Odyssey of the West IV - A Classic Education through the Great Books: Towards Enlightenment
by Timothy B. Shutt
Credits: Audio Download
Part four provides a close look at the period from the Renaissance to the Scientific Revolution and into the early Enlightenment.
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Hebrews, Greeks, and Romans
by Timothy B. Shutt
Credits: Audio Download
Our purpose in this course will be to examine the foundations of Western Civilization in antiquity. We will look at the culture of the ancient Hebrews, of the ancient Greeks, and of the Romans...
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David Hume
by Nicholas Capaldi
Credits: Audio Download
David Hume (1711-1776) represented the culmination of the British philosophy of sense-experience.
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The Evolution of God
by Robert Wright
Credits: Audio Download | MP3 CD
In this sweeping narrative, which takes us from the Stone Age to the Information Age, Robert Wright unveils an astonishing discovery: there is a hidden pattern that the great monotheistic faiths have followed as they have evolved.
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Full House
by Stephen Jay Gould
Credits: Audio Download
We have always identified trends as bad (loosening of the moral fiber) or good (better ethnic eating...
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The Story of Philosophy
by Will Durant
Credits: Audio CD | MP3 CD
This chronicle of the world’s great thinkers gives not only the ideas and philosophical systems of the world famous monarchs of the mind, such as Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Spinoza, Kant, Voltaire, Locke…
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All You Want to Know About Giants of Political Thought
Credits: Audio Download
Francis Bacon said that Knowledge is Power. But we often don't have time to read and gain all the knowledge we would like. The Giants of Political Thoughts provides an easy, systematic way to broaden your mind and your awareness of the greatest documents in our country's history—and the great minds behind them.
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Descartes' Bones
by Russell Shorto
Credits: Audio Download
From bestselling, prize-winning author Russell Shorto comes a grand and strange history of the on-going debate between religion and science—seen through the oddly momentous journey of the skull and bones of the great French philosopher Rene Descartes.
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The Machiavellians
by James Burnham
Credits: Audio Download
This classic work of political theory and practice makes available an account of the modern Machiavellians: Gartano Mosca, George Sorel, Robert Michels, and Vilfredo Pareto.
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