Philosophers Free Audio & Video

These are the 60 lectures from the Teaching Company course The Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 2nd Edition, featuring principal lecturers Michael Sugrue and Darren Staloff.

Cozy up by the fireplace with this free version of Bertrand Russell's classic 1945 book The History Of Western Philosophy.

Psychologist William James now stands as one of the true intellectual titans to come out of late 19th century America. With The Will to Believe, first published in 1896, he argues that it is defendable to adopt a certain belief without prior evidence of its truth.

One of the most important philosophical works of the twentieth century, Being and Time is both a systematization of the existential insights of Kierkegaard and Nietzsche and a radicalization of Husserl's phenomenological account of intentionality.

The Enchiridion (or "Handbook") is a classic philosophical text that collects Epictetus' core ethical teachings.

Listen to the final dialogue of Socrates as he defends himself against the charges of "corrupting the young, and by not believing in the gods in whom the city believes". Plato's account of this speech from 399 BC contains Socrates final thoughts on being sentenced to death and his reasons for accepting this fate.

Download and listen to this major work by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. In this work Nietzsche sets out to transcend traditional morality and condemns much of Western philosophy for being subservient to this morality.

Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason stands as a touchstone work in modern philosophy, and in this free course provided by Oxford, Professor Daniel Robinson will bring his wit, enthusiasm and deep scholarship to bear on this seminal, though admittedly difficult book.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a 19th century literary masterpiece and key philosophical work by Nietzsche.

In this 6-part documentary, popular philosopher Alain de Botton examines six philosophers and what they had to say about living a happy life and how this wisdom can apply to us today.