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The Book of Tea (Version 2)
Read by Clive Catterall
Kakuzō Okakura
The Book of Tea is as much about philosophy, religion and art as it is about a drink made with dried leaves in boiling water. It traces the …
Christian Science
Read by John Greenman
Mark Twain
Christian Science is a 1907 collection of essays Mark Twain wrote about Christian Science, beginning with an article that was published in C…
The Prophet (version 5)
Read by Ruth Golding
Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet is the best known work of Khalil Gibran, also known as Kahlil Gibran, a Lebanese American poet and artist.The poetic prose of Th…
Invisible Helpers
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C. W. Leadbeater
Even in this incredulous age, and amidst the full whirl of our nineteenth-century civilization, in spite of the dogmatism of our science and…
Six Radical Thinkers: Bentham, J.S. Mill, Cobden, Carlyle, Mazzini, T.H. Green
Read by Pamela Nagami
John Maccunn
A radical is a person who holds extreme or unconventional convictions and who advocates fundamental political, economic, or social reforms. …
A System of Logic
Read by Chris Greaves
John Stuart Mill
"In this work, he formulated the five principles of inductive reasoning that are known as Mill's Methods. This work is important in the…
The Destination Of Man
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Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Johanne Fichte published The Destination of Man (Die Bestimmung des Menschen) in 1799. It was translated into English in 1846 by Jane Sinnet…
The Priest and His Disciples (Shaw Translation)
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Hyakuzō Kurata
At the age of twenty-six (at the height of the Great War in Europe), the religious pilgrim and maverick Kurata Hyakuzō wrote a profoundly ph…
Thomas Hobbes
Read by Jim Locke
Alfred Edward Taylor
This work is a look at the life and ideas of Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher of the seventeenth century. The most important ideas are fo…
The New Idealism
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May Sinclair
The genius of May Sinclair lies in her brilliant bridging of the Victorian and the modern eras, in her determination never to become ossifie…
The Problem of Truth
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Herbert Wildon Carr
A problem of philosophy is completely different from a problem of science. In science we accept our subject-matter as it is presented in una…
The Intermediate Sex: A Study of Some Transitional Types of Men and Women
Read by Chuck Williamson
Edward Carpenter
Written in 1908 by socialist critic and gay rights activist Edward Carpenter, The Intermediate Sex is a thoughtful, humanizing, and frequent…
Ontology, or the Theory of Being
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Peter Coffey
The book is an introduction to metaphysics and Thomistic Ontology. - Summary by shreyasethi
Philosophy
Read by Ciufi Galeazzi
Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell was a well known mathematician, philosopher, and author. First published in England under the title "An Outline of Ph…
The Service
Read by Phil Schempf
Henry David Thoreau
An essay in three parts written in July 1840. "Human life is his topic, and he views it with an Oriental scope of thought, in which di…
The Nature and Authority of Conscience
Read by John Greenman
Rufus Jones
Rufus Matthew Jones (January 25, 1863 – June 16, 1948) was an American religious leader, writer, magazine editor, philosopher, and college p…
Practical Mysticism (Version 2)
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Evelyn Underhill
I write only for the larger class which, repelled by the formidable appearance of more elaborate works on the subject, would yet like to kno…
Science and the Modern World
Read by Peter Tucker
Alfred North Whitehead
It is fortunate that in the twentieth century, science and philosophy are beginning to be united in the same person as they were in the seve…
Civilisation: Its Cause and Cure, and Other Essays
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Edward Carpenter
This publication, by English utopian socialist Edward Carpenter, describes civilisation as a sort of disease with which humanity is afflicte…
David Hume and his Influence on Philosophy and Theology
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James Orr
David Hume justly takes rank as the most distinguished member of that brilliant circle of literary men whose names gave such a lustre to the…