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Classics of Western Philosophy: Volume 1
by Plato
Formats: Digital Download ($9.95)
Average Rating:   (4.5 Stars)
Classics of Western Philosophy is a collection of major philosophical works of the Western World. This chronological anthology features key excerpts from ancient, medieval, & modern philosophers.
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Great Speeches in History
by Socrates
Formats: Audio CD ($14.38) | Digital Download ($14.38)
Average Rating:  (4.0 Stars)
From Socrates to Charles I, Danton to Lincoln - here are some of history's most significant figures with their most important speeches...
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Wittgenstein in 90 Minutes
by Paul Strathern
Formats: Audio CD ($13.46)
Average Rating: (2.0 Stars)
If we accept Wittgenstein's word for it, Paul Strathern writes, "he is the last philosopher....
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Aristotle
by Thomas C. Brickhouse
Formats: Audio CD ($16.20)
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
Formats: Audio CD ($18.00)
Arthur Schopenhauer was the most articulate and influential pessimist in the history of human thought.
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Baruch Spinoza
by Thomas Cook
Formats: Audio CD ($16.20)
A Portuguese Jew living in Holland, Spinoza was excommunicated because of the unorthodox view he took of God.
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Confucius in 90 Minutes
by Paul Strathern
Formats: Audio Cassette ($13.46)
Confucius taught a moral wisdom that would become a predominant social force in China from the second century BCE until the mid-twentieth century.
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Epicurus and Lucretius
by Sherwin T. Wine
Formats: Digital Download ($4.95)
Secularism has its roots in the world of the Greeks. The arrival of philosophy in Athens was accompanied by a deep skepticism concerning the Greek gods and Greek mythology.
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Hegel in 90 Minutes
by Paul Strathern
Formats: Audio CD ($14.40) | Audio Cassette ($14.95)
With Hegel, philosophy became very difficult indeed. His dialectical method produced the most grandiose metaphysical system known to man.
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Heidegger in 90 Minutes
by Paul Strathern
Formats: Audio CD ($16.00) | Audio Cassette ($13.46)
One of the two major philosophical traditions of the twentieth century was linguistic analysis, derived largely from Wittgenstein. The other, diametrically opposed, came from Heidegger…
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Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
Formats: Digital Download ($16.50)
David Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion had not yet been published when he died in 1776. Even though the manuscript was mostly written during the 1750s, it did not appear until 1779. The subject itself was too delicate and controversial. What should we teach young people about religion?
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Immanuel Kant
by A.J. Mandt
Formats: Audio CD ($18.00)
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
Formats: Audio CD ($16.20)
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
Formats: Audio CD ($18.00)
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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Kant in 90 Minutes
by Paul Strathern
Formats: Audio CD ($13.46)
Immanuel Kant taught and wrote prolifically about physical geography yet never traveled further than forty miles from his home in Kvnigsberg....
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Karl Marx
by Sherwin T. Wine
Formats: Digital Download ($4.95)
When Marx died, his disciples were few in numbers. But within ten years his followers were numerous. And within 20 years they constituted millions.
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Kierkegaard in 90 Minutes
by Paul Strathern
Formats: Audio CD ($13.46)
Kierkegaard wasn't really a philosopher in the academic sense....
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Marx in 90 Minutes
by Paul Strathern
Formats: Audio CD ($14.40)
Karl Marx's devastating critique of capitalism, and his proposal of communism as the answer to the failings of the capitalist system, bore their greatest fruits in the twentieth century…
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Philosopher's Notes: Meditations
by Brian Johnson
Formats: Digital Download ($1.95)
Not only is Marcus Aurelius one of my heroes, he’s also one of history’s leading Stoic Philosophers. Stoic philosophy. You know, one of the classic Hellenistic philosophies—right there with Epicureanism and Cynicism.
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Philosopher's Notes: Rich Dad, Poor Dad
by Brian Johnson
Formats: Digital Download ($1.95)
Juxtaposing his biological, educated, government-employed father who always struggled financially with his best friend’s entrepreneurial, wealthy father, Kiyosaki weaves a compelling story about how the rich think more than a little differently than the poor and the middle class.
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Philosopher's Notes: The Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
by Brian Johnson
Formats: Digital Download ($1.95)
If you’re like me, his eloquence, eminent quotability and passion for each of us to experience the transcendent joy that results from connecting to our Highest Self will often leave you in awe.
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Philosopher's Notes: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
by Brian Johnson
Formats: Digital Download ($1.95)
Be warned: The man, as they say, delivers his philosophy with a hammer.
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Plato
by Berel Lang
Formats: Audio CD ($16.20)
Plato was the first great philosopher of the West to organize and record the issues and questions that define philosophy.
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Reflections on the Mind of Plato
by Joseph Norio Uemura
Formats: Digital Download ($10.50)
In the twenty-four centuries that have passed since the Athenians put Socrates to death, every generation has interpreted the meaning of Plato's work differently. Joseph Uemura guides us through six dialogues in an effort to promote a dialectical quest rather than seek a final resting place.
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Samuel Beckett
by Sherwin T. Wine
Formats: Digital Download ($4.95)
Poet, novelist and playwright Beckett embodied a radical response to the outrageous events of two world wars.
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