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Nietzsche in 90 Minutes
- Written by: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
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With Friedrich Nietzsche, philosophy was dangerous not only for philosophers but for everyone. His ideas presaged a collective madness that had horrific consequences in Europe in the early 1900s. Though his philosophy is more one of aphorisms than a system, it is brilliant, persuasive, and incisive. His major concept is the will to power, which he saw as the basic impulse for all our acts. Christianity he saw as a subtle perversion of this concept, thus Nietzsche's famous pronouncement, "God is dead."
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Seems the Author does not like or respect Nietzsch
- By D.J.Wheelz on 2023-03-01
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Nietzsche in 90 Minutes
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
- Release date: 2004-04-13
- Language: English
- With Friedrich Nietzsche, philosophy was dangerous not only for philosophers but for everyone....
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The Spell of the Sensuous
- Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
- Written by: David Abram
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
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For a thousand generations, human beings viewed themselves as part of the wider community of nature, and they carried on active relationships not only with other people but with other animals, plants, and natural objects (including mountains, rivers, winds, and weather patterns) that we have only lately come to think of as "inanimate". How, then, did humans come to sever their ancient reciprocity with the natural world?
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The Most Impactful Book of My Life
- By Denise on 2020-07-02
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The Spell of the Sensuous
- Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 2017-06-20
- Language: English
- For a thousand generations, human beings viewed themselves as part of the wider community of nature....
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Good Thinking
- Why Flawed Logic Puts Us All at Risk and How Critical Thinking Can Save the World
- Written by: David Robert Grimes
- Narrated by: David Robert Grimes
- Length: 15 hrs and 26 mins
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In our ever-more-polarized society, there's at least one thing we still agree on: The world is overrun with misinformation, faulty logic, and the gullible followers who buy into it all. Of course, we're not among them - are we? Scientist David Robert Grimes is on a mission to expose the logical fallacies and cognitive biases that drive our discourse on a dizzying array of topics - from vaccination to abortion, 9/11 conspiracy theories to dictatorial doublespeak, astrology to alternative medicine, and wrongful convictions to racism.
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Good Thinking
- Why Flawed Logic Puts Us All at Risk and How Critical Thinking Can Save the World
- Narrated by: David Robert Grimes
- Length: 15 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 2021-08-17
- Language: English
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Good Thinking is our best defense against anti-vaccine paranoia, climate denial, and other dire threats of today....
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The Machiavellians
- Defenders of Freedom
- Written by: James Burnham
- Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
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This classic work of political theory and practice offers an account of the modern Machiavellians, a remarkable group who have been influential in Europe and practically unknown in the United States. The book devotes a long section to Machiavelli himself as well as to such modern Machiavellians as Gaetano Mosca, Georges Sorel, Robert Michels and Vilfredo Pareto. Burnham contends that the writings of these men hold the key both to the truth about politics and to the preservation of political liberty.
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very good. very relevant.
- By Adam Milne on 2020-06-21
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The Machiavellians
- Defenders of Freedom
- Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 2009-05-07
- Language: English
- This classic work of political theory and practice offers an account of the modern Machiavellians, a remarkable group who have been influential in Europe and practically unknown in the United States....
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Kierkegaard in 90 Minutes
- Written by: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
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Kierkegaard wasn't really a philosopher in the academic sense. Yet he produced what many people expect of philosophy. His subject was the individual and his or her existence, the "existing being." In Kierkegaard's view, this purely subjective entity lay beyond the reach of reason, logic, philosophical systems, theology, or even "the pretenses of psychology." Nonetheless, it was the source of all these subjects. The branch of philosophy to which Kierkegaard gave birth has come to be known as existentialism.
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Kierkegaard in 90 Minutes
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
- Release date: 2004-04-13
- Language: English
- Kierkegaard wasn't really a philosopher in the academic sense....
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Heidegger in 90 Minutes
- Written by: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 27 mins
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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, and its fundamental question was, "What is the meaning of existence?" For Heidegger, this question could not simply be "analyzed away". It was beyond the reach of logic or reason. It was the primary "given" of every individual life. To confront it, Heidegger needed to develop an entire new form of philosophy.
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Heidegger in 90 Minutes
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 27 mins
- Release date: 2005-07-08
- Language: English
- Heidegger needed to develop an entire new form of philosophy....
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Proust and the Squid
- The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
- Written by: Maryanne Wolf
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
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Interweaving her vast knowledge of neurology, sociology, psychology, and philosophy with fascinating down-to-earth examples and lively personal anecdotes, developmental psychologist, neuroscientist, and dyslexia expert Wolf probes the question, "How do we learn to read and write?" This ambitious and provocative new book offers an impassioned look at reading, its effect on our lives, and explains why it matters so greatly in a digital era.
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Enjoyable listen
- By PDubya on 2019-09-07
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Proust and the Squid
- The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 2008-08-26
- Language: English
- This ambitious and provocative new book offers an impassioned look at reading....
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What Kind of Creatures Are We?
- Written by: Noam Chomsky
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
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Noam Chomsky is widely known and deeply admired for being the founder of modern linguistics, one of the founders of the field of cognitive science, and perhaps the most avidly read political theorist and commentator of our time. In these lectures, he presents a lifetime of philosophical reflection on all three of these areas of research to which he has contributed for over half a century.
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What Kind of Creatures Are We?
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 2018-05-15
- Language: English
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Noam Chomsky is known and admired for being the founder of modern linguistics, one of the founders of the field of cognitive science, and perhaps the most avidly read political theorist and commentator of our time. In these lectures, he presents a lifetime of philosophical reflection....
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Kant in 90 Minutes
- Written by: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
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Immanuel Kant taught and wrote prolifically about physical geography yet never traveled further than forty miles from his home in Kvnigsberg. How appropriate it is then that in his philosophy he should deny that all knowledge was derived from experience. He insisted that all experience must conform to knowledge. According to Kant, space and time are subjective; along with various "categories," they help us to see the phenomena of the world, though never its true reality.
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Kant in 90 Minutes
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
- Release date: 2004-04-13
- Language: English
- 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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Socrates in 90 Minutes
- Written by: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
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Just a century after it had begun, philosophy entered its greatest age with the appearance of Socrates, who spent so much of his time talking about philosophy on the streets of Athens that he never got around to writing anything down. His method of aggressive questioning, called dialectic, was the forerunner of logic; he used it to cut through the twaddle of his adversaries and arrive at the truth. Rather than questioning the world, he believed, we would be better off questioning ourselves.
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90 mins of dismissing Socrates.
- By Anonymous User on 2024-02-18
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Socrates in 90 Minutes
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
- Release date: 2005-07-08
- Language: English
- Just a century after it had begun, philosophy entered its greatest age with the appearance of Socrates....
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Aristotle in 90 Minutes
- Written by: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
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Aristotle wrote on everything from the shape of seashells to sterility, from speculations on the nature of the soul to meteorology, poetry, art, and even the interpretation of dreams. Apart from mathematics, he transformed every field of knowledge that he touched. Above all, Aristotle is credited with the founding of logic. When he first divided human knowledge into separate categories, he enabled our understanding of the world to develop in a systematic fashion.
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Aristotle in 90 Minutes
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
- Release date: 2004-04-13
- Language: English
- Aristotle wrote on everything from the shape of seashells to sterility, from speculations on the nature of the soul to meteorology, poetry, art, and even the interpretation of dreams....
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Hegel in 90 Minutes
- Written by: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
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With Hegel, philosophy became very difficult indeed. His dialectical method produced the most grandiose metaphysical system known to man. Even Hegel conceded that "only one man understands me, and even he does not." Hegel's system included absolutely everything, but its most vital element was the dialectic of the thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. This method sprang from Hegel's ambition to overcome the deficiencies of logic and ascended toward mind as the ultimate reality.
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Perfect
- By Amazon Customer on 2022-10-02
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Hegel in 90 Minutes
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
- Release date: 2005-07-08
- Language: English
- With Hegel, philosophy became very difficult indeed. His dialectical method produced the most grandiose metaphysical system known to man....
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St. Augustine in 90 Minutes
- Written by: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
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In St. Augustine in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of St. Augustine's life and ideas and explains their influence on man's struggle to understand his existence in the world. The book also includes selections from St. Augustine's work, a brief list of suggested readings for those who wish to delve deeper, and chronologies that place St. Augustine within his own age and in the broader scheme of philosophy.
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Not a fan
- By T-Cress on 2023-04-04
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St. Augustine in 90 Minutes
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
- Release date: 2005-07-08
- Language: English
- Augustine's struggles with sex and a domineering mother, followed by his spiritual crisis and conversion to Christianity ultimately led him to his major contribution to philosophy....
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Plato in 90 Minutes
- Written by: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
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In an age when philosophers had scarcely glimpsed the horizons of the mind, a boy named Aristocles decided to forgo his ambitions as a wrestler. Adopting the nickname Plato, he embarked instead on a life in philosophy. In 387 B.C. he founded the Academy, the world's first university, and taught his students that all we see is not reality but merely a reproduction of the true source. And in his famous Republic he described the politics of "the highest form of state."
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Fantastic introduction to Plato
- By Annata on 2022-10-04
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Plato in 90 Minutes
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
- Release date: 2004-04-14
- Language: English
- In an age when philosophers had scarcely glimpsed the horizons of the mind, a boy named Aristocles decided to forgo his ambitions as a wrestler....
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Descartes in 90 Minutes
- Written by: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
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Rene Descartes spent most of his childhood in solitude, a situation that also came to characterize his adult life. Fortunately, these countless lonely hours helped Descartes produce the declaration that changed all philosophy: "I think, therefore I am." Eventually convincing himself to doubt and disregard sensory knowledge, Descartes found he could prove his existence through his thoughts. This internal information, he believed, was the true reality and external forces were hopelessly deceiving.
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Biography not philosophy, a great listen
- By So About That on 2023-10-20
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Descartes in 90 Minutes
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
- Release date: 2004-04-13
- Language: English
- Rene Descartes spent most of his childhood in solitude, a situation that also came to characterize his adult life....
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Wittgenstein in 90 Minutes
- Written by: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
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"If we accept Wittgenstein's word for it," Paul Strathern writes, "he is the last philosopher. In his view, philosophy in the traditional sense was finished."
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Unfathomably Bad.
- By Bill Gairns on 2022-02-08
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Wittgenstein in 90 Minutes
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
- Release date: 2004-04-14
- Language: English
- "If we accept Wittgenstein's word for it," Paul Strathern writes, "he is the last philosopher....
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Confucius in 90 Minutes
- Written by: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
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Confucius knew all about life and told us how to behave, but we can't find out precisely what he was up to. His well-meaning platitudes, quaint maxims, and quasi-enigmatic anecdotes combined to produce an ideal philosophy for civil servants. It would appear that his aim was to turn his pupils into good government officials, but his teachings succeeded beyond his wildest expectations, providing rules of conduct and spiritual fodder for more than two thousand years.
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Good Listen
- By AmazonShopper416 on 2023-08-28
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Confucius in 90 Minutes
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
- Release date: 2005-07-08
- Language: English
- Confucius knew all about life and told us how to behave, but we can't find out precisely what he was up to....
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The Language Instinct
- How the Mind Creates Language
- Written by: Steven Pinker
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 18 hrs and 55 mins
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In this classic, the world’s expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved. With deft use of examples of humor and wordplay, Steven Pinker weaves our vast knowledge of language into a compelling story: language is a human instinct, wired into our brains by evolution. The Language Instinct received the William James Book Prize from the American Psychological Association....
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Fantastic! ...but not as an audiobook.
- By Alexandre L'Écuyer on 2019-06-26
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The Language Instinct
- How the Mind Creates Language
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 18 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 2011-12-06
- Language: English
- In this classic, the world’s expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language....
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The Language of God
- A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief
- Written by: Francis S. Collins
- Narrated by: Francis S. Collins
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
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Dr. Francis Collins, head of the Human Genome Project, is one of the world's leading scientists, yet he is also a man of unshakable faith in God and scripture. Dr. Collins has resolved the dilemma that haunts everyone who believes in God and respects science. Faith in God and faith in science can be harmonious, not separately but together, combined into one worldview. For Collins, science does not conflict with the Bible, science enhances it.
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Not bad, but nothing super special for me
- By Maze on 2018-12-26
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The Language of God
- A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief
- Narrated by: Francis S. Collins
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 2006-07-17
- Language: English
- Dr. Francis Collins, head of the Human Genome Project, is one of the world's leading scientists, yet he is also a man of unshakable faith in God and scripture....
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Hume in 90 Minutes
- Written by: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
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David Hume reduced philosophy to ruins: he denied the existence of everything, except our actual perceptions themselves. I alone exist, he argued, and the world is nothing more than part of my consciousness. Yet we know that the world remains, and we go on as before. What Hume expressed was the status of our knowledge about the world, a world in which neither religion nor science is certain.
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Hume in 90 Minutes
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
- Release date: 2005-09-14
- Language: English
- David Hume reduced philosophy to ruins: he denied the existence of everything, except our actual perceptions themselves....
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