Lynn Redgrave Audio

The complete play in five acts....

For centuries, the works of Aristotle and other Greek thinkers were preserved in the Arabic world, where they profoundly influenced Muslim thinkers who were trying to combine philosophical insight with religious piety.

Bertrand Russell and A.N. Whitehead co-authored a seminal work in logic entitled Principia Mathematica.

Journeys to the end of the world, fantastic creatures, and epic battles between good and evil -- what more could any reader ask for? This timeless boxed set includes all seven unabridged recordings...

China’s two greatest philosophers, Confucius and Lao Tzu, were intensely interested in how we should live and how a good society is governed.

These two great seventeenth-century philosophers aimed to break free of oppressive traditions. Free scientific inquiry led them to skeptically question everything, though they also tried to reconcile science with religious faith.

The Roman Empire became Christian in 323 AD; about two centuries later, the rest of Europe began to convert. Medieval culture blurred the line between the sacred and the secular.

From Philo of Judea to Maimonides and beyond, Medieval Jewish philosophy created an outstanding, unbroken tradition. Jewish thinkers worked to square Biblical faith with the demands of reason…

From the imagination of Mary Engelbreit springs a Mother Goose world bursting with warmth and humor. All the favorite characters are here -- Little Bo-Peep, Humpty Dumpty, Old King Cole, Jack and Jill, and many, many more.

India has perhaps the oldest living philosophical tradition in the world. Though both Buddhism and Jainism began in India, its primary influence is the Vedic tradition.

Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy are returning to boarding school when they are summoned from the dreary train station (by Susan's own magic horn) to return to the land of Narnia....

Simone de Beauvoir stands as a towering figure in the twentieth century’s flowering of thought among women.

Stoics and Epicureans date from the Hellenistic period, but the debate between these two modes of thought continues today.

In an age of conflicting intellectual trends, some philosophers have lost faith in the everyday relevance of philosophy; others have affirmed that reflection is crucial to authentic living.

In the great ferment of the French Revolution, Voltaire and Rousseau stood out as intellectual giants.

C. S. Peirce was an authentic American genius who developed a tough-minded pragmatism and a sweeping philosophy of evolutionary love. William James, a trained physician, carefully studied human experience, including the highest reaches of consciousness.

Grandmamma loves to tell about witches. Real witches are the most dangerous of all living creatures on earth.

Ayn Rand's famous 1957 classic, Atlas Shrugged, has become more widely read and influential with each passing year...