Philosophy Audio Books

"Who is John Galt?" is the immortal question posed at the beginning of Ayn Rand's masterpiece. The answer is the astonishing story of a man who said he would stop the motor of the world--and did.

Albert Camus' The Stranger is one of the most widely read novels in the world, with millions of copies sold....

The Fountainhead studies the conflict between artistic genius and social convention, a theme Ayn Rand later developed into the idealistic philosophy knows as Objectivism.

This text on the history of economic thought brings to life the great economic thinkers…

This lyrical, evocative, thought-provoking journal of a man's quest for truth - and for himself - has touched and changed...

Frankl’s assertion that “the will to meaning” is the basic motivation for human life has forever changed the way we understand our humanity in the face of suffering.

In de Beauvoir's second major essay, the renowned French philosopher illustrates the ethics of existentialism by outlining a series of ways of being....

The Peloponnesian War broke out in 431 BC and continued intermittently for twenty-seven years...

An enthusiastic admirer of the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas, professor and philosopher Peter Kreeft details the rational thought and precise literary talent that established Aquinas as the foremost thinker of his time—and as the most important philosopher for the almost two thousand years between Aristotle and Descartes.

In this lecture, Professor Colin McGinn deciphers what we mean when we say we 'know' something to be true.