- Aristotle
Aristotle was Plato's student, but revised his teacher's ideas to be more consistent with ordinary experience.
- Aristotle in 90 Minutes
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 ma...
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Schopenhauer emphasized the dark aspects of existence. Evil, pain and suffering are not aberration: they express the inner nature of the world. He is pessimistic about the true nature of existence;...
- Autobiographical Reflections
This is an ideal introduction to the ideas of Eric Voegelin, a man whom many regard as the greatest thinker of our time. Here we encounter the stages in the development of his unique philosophy of ...
- Avicenna and Medieval Muslim Philosophy
Islam is a monotheistic religion that affirms the existence of One absolute and perfect God. As it spread by conquest in the 7th century, Islam encountered many new and foreign traditions, includin...
- Baruch Spinoza
A Portuguese Jew living in Holland, Spinoza sought a life of
- Bertrand Russell and A.N. Whitehead
The 20th century English philosophers Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead will be forever linked by their collaboration of Principia Mathematica, a three volume technical work that used pur...
- Caduceus: A New Perspective on Historical Knowledge and the Spirituality of Man
Caduceus identifies the initial, common and unifying element in our religious and spiritual movements as Kundalini and discusses its many remarkable parallels with the Near-death experience.
- Case for a Creator, The
Lee Strobel investigates the latest scientific discoveries to see whether they form a solid basis for believing in God. Read by Lee Strobel.
- Confucius in 90 Minutes
In Confucius in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Confucius's life and ideas and explains their influence on man's struggle to understand his existence in the world.
- Confucius, Lao Tzu, and the Chinese Philosophical Tradition
The golden age of Chinese philosophy dates from the birth of Confucius (551 BC) until China was unified (and learning suppressed) in 221 BC. China's great Confucian philosophers were Confucius, Men...
- Consolations of Philosophy, The
Alain de Botton draws on the work of six of the world's most brilliant thinkers to offer this panoply of accessible, entertaining wisdom to guide us through our most common problems. From the frust...
- David Hume
David Hume sought to create a comprehensive
- Descartes in 90 Minutes
René 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...
- Descartes, Bacon and Modern Philosophy
Rene' Descartes (1596-1650), the father of modern rationalism, abandoned traditional paths to knowledge and developed a new method of seeking truth. Descartes doubted everything to eliminate precon...
- Drugs and Alcohol
Drugs and alcohol involve personal habits that have significant social consequences.
- Duns Scotus and Medieval Christianity
The Roman Empire became Christian in 323 AD; about two centuries later, the rest of Europe began converting to Christianity. Medieval culture blurred the line between the sacred and the secular, an...
- Ending Of Time, The
Philosophical conversation between J Krishnamurti and David Bohm
- Freedom from the Known
Krishnamurti shows how people can free themselves radically and immediately from the tyranny of the expected, no matter what their age-opening the door to transforming society and their relationships.
- Freedom From The Self
J Krishnamurti talks about our concepts of fear and how best to deal with them.
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Hegel created a vast speculative and idealistic philosophy, where truth is found not in the part but in the whole. Nature is an organic whole shot through with rationality akin to the reason in our...
- Hegel in 90 Minutes
In Hegel in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Hegel's life and ideas and explains their influence on man's struggle to understand his existence in the world.
- Heidegger in 90 Minutes
In Heidegger in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Heidegger's life and ideas and explains their influence on man's struggle to understand his existence in the world.
- Human Rights and Civil Rights
Individual rights morally protect a person against oppression by the powerful (such as the democratic majority, the government, or other holders of power). Civil rights are group-oriented; they are...
- Hume in 90 Minutes
In Hume in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Hume's life and ideas and explains their influence on man's struggle to understand his existence in the world.
- Immanuel Kant
Before Kant, philosophers had debated for centuries whether knowledge is derived from experience or reason. Kant says that both views are partly right and partly wrong, that they share the same err...
- In Pursuit of Elegance: Why the Best Ideas Have Something Missing
What made The Sopranos finale one of the most talked about events in television history? Why is Sudoku so addictive and the iPhone so irresistible? Matthew E. May tells us that the answer is.
- Isaac Newton
In this original, sweeping, and intimate biography, Gleick moves between a comprehensive historical portrait and a dramatic focus on Newton's significant letters and unpublished notebooks.
- Isaac Newton's New Physics
Isaac Newton (1642-1727) achieved momentous breakthroughs in three areas: mathematics (the calculus), a theory of colors, and gravitational attraction. His first insights in each of these areas occ...
- j Krishnamurti - Breaking the pattern of Ego centred activity
J Krishnamurti talks about Insight into the importance man has given to ego centred activity and how it affects us.
- J Krishnamurti - Can Insight bring about a Mutation of the Braincells
J Krishnamurti talks about Insight into our existence.
- J Krishnamurti - Cleansing the Mind of the Accumulation of Time
J Krishnamurti talks about Insight into ability to cleanse the mind and thereby understand better our position in the Universe.
- j Krishnamurti - Death Has Very Little Meaning
J Krishnamurti talks about Insight into Death as a concept and its meaning.
- J Krishnamurti - Freedom from the Known
Freedom From the Known explores many of the central themes of Krishnamurti's teaching.
- J Krishnamurti - The Ground Of Being and the Mind Of Man
J Krishnamurti talks about Insight into the mind of Man .
- J Krishnamurti - Why has Man Given Supreme Importance To Thought
J Krishnamurti talks about Insight into the importance man has given to thought in his society and existence.
- J Krishnamurti in Conversation with Professor Allan Anderson Volume 1 of 18
In a time of unprecedented outer change in the political and social spheres, is there a fundamental inner challenge that faces each one of us?
- J Krishnamurti in Conversation with Professor Allan Anderson Volume 2 of 18
In a time of unprecedented outer change in the political and social spheres, is there a fundamental inner challenge that faces each one of us?
- j Krishnamurti in Conversation with Professor Allan Anderson Volume 3
In a time of unprecedented outer change in the political and social spheres, is there a fundamental inner challenge that faces each one of us?
- j Krishnamurti in Conversation with Professor Allan Anderson Volume 4
In a time of unprecedented outer change in the political and social spheres, is there a fundamental inner challenge that faces each one of us?
- j Krishnamurti in Conversation with Professor Allan Anderson Volume 5
In a time of unprecedented outer change in the political and social spheres, is there a fundamental inner challenge that faces each one of us?
- j Krishnamurti in Conversation with Professor Allan Anderson Volume 6
In a time of unprecedented outer change in the political and social spheres, is there a fundamental inner challenge that faces each one of us?
- j Krishnamurti in Conversation with Professor Allan Anderson Volume 7
In a time of unprecedented outer change in the political and social spheres, is there a fundamental inner challenge that faces each one of us?
- j Krishnamurti in Conversation with Professor Allan Anderson Volume 8
In a time of unprecedented outer change in the political and social spheres, is there a fundamental inner challenge that faces each one of us?
- j Krishnamurti in Conversation with Professor Allan Anderson Volume 9
In a time of unprecedented outer change in the political and social spheres, is there a fundamental inner challenge that faces each one of us?
- j Krishnamurti in Conversation with Professor Allan Anderson Volume 10
In a time of unprecedented outer change in the political and social spheres, is there a fundamental inner challenge that faces each one of us?
- j Krishnamurti in Conversation with Professor Allan Anderson Volume 11
In a time of unprecedented outer change in the political and social spheres, is there a fundamental inner challenge that faces each one of us?
- j Krishnamurti in Conversation with Professor Allan Anderson Volume 12
In a time of unprecedented outer change in the political and social spheres, is there a fundamental inner challenge that faces each one of us?
- j Krishnamurti in Conversation with Professor Allan Anderson Volume 13
In a time of unprecedented outer change in the political and social spheres, is there a fundamental inner challenge that faces each one of us?
- j Krishnamurti in Conversation with Professor Allan Anderson Volume 14
In a time of unprecedented outer change in the political and social spheres, is there a fundamental inner challenge that faces each one of us?
- j Krishnamurti in Conversation with Professor Allan Anderson Volume 15
In a time of unprecedented outer change in the political and social spheres, is there a fundamental inner challenge that faces each one of us?
- j Krishnamurti in Conversation with Professor Allan Anderson Volume 16
In a time of unprecedented outer change in the political and social spheres, is there a fundamental inner challenge that faces each one of us?
- j Krishnamurti in Conversation with Professor Allan Anderson Volume 17
In a time of unprecedented outer change in the political and social spheres, is there a fundamental inner challenge that faces each one of us? I
- j Krishnamurti in Conversation with Professor Allan Anderson Volume 18
In a time of unprecedented outer change in the political and social spheres, is there a fundamental inner challenge that faces each one of us?
- J Krishnamurti Lectures Ojai 16th July 1958 - Understanding Detachment
This is one in a series of fourteen lectures by the unique teacher and world-wide lecturer J. Krishnamurti who invites you to confront inner reality and thus find a richer life.
- J Krishnamurti Lectures Ojai 17th July 1958 - Action Relationship Thought
This is the second in a series of fourteen lectures by the unique teacher and world-wide lecturer J. Krishnamurti who invites you to confront inner reality and thus find a richer life.
- J Krishnamurti Lectures Ojai 23rd july 1958 - Beliefs Seeking
This is three in a series of fourteen lectures by the unique teacher and world-wide lecturer J. Krishnamurti who invites you to confront inner reality and thus find a richer life.
- J Krishnamurti Lectures Ojai July 24, 1959 - Simplicity and Impulses
This is fou in a series of fourteen lectures by the unique teacher and world-wide lecturer J. Krishnamurti who invites you to confront inner reality and thus find a richer life.
- J Krishnamurti Lectures Ojai 30th July 1949 - Awareness and Discipline
This is Five in a series of fourteen lectures by the unique teacher and world-wide lecturer J. Krishnamurti who invites you to confront inner reality and thus find a richer life.
- J Krishnamurti Lectures 31st July 1958 - True religion and Meditation
This is six in a series of fourteen lectures by the unique teacher and world-wide lecturer J. Krishnamurti who invites you to confront inner reality and thus find a richer life.
- J Krishnamurti Lectures Ojai 6th August 1958 - Intelligence Hatred
This is six in a series of fourteen lectures by the unique teacher and world-wide lecturer J. Krishnamurti who invites you to confront inner reality and thus find a richer life.
- J Krishnamurti Lectures Ojai 13 August 1958 - Intelligence and Hatred
This is the ninth in a series of fourteen lectures by the unique teacher and world-wide lecturer J. Krishnamurti who invites you to confront inner reality and thus find a richer life.
- J Krishnamurti Lectures Ojai 14th August 1958 - Questions and Answers
This is ten in a series of fourteen lectures by the unique teacher and world-wide lecturer J. Krishnamurti who invites you to confront inner reality and thus find a richer life.
- J Krishnamurti Lectures Ojai 20th August 1958 - Questions and Answers
This is one in a series of fourteen lectures by the unique teacher and world-wide lecturer J. Krishnamurti who invites you to confront inner reality and thus find a richer life.
- J Krishnamurti Lectures Ojai 21st August 1958 - Technique Individualism and Suffering
This is twelve in a series of fourteen lectures by the unique teacher and world-wide lecturer J. Krishnamurti who invites you to confront inner reality and thus find a richer life.
- J Krishnamurti Lectures Ojai 27th August 1958 - Questions and Answers
This is thirteen in a series of fourteen lectures by the unique teacher and world-wide lecturer J. Krishnamurti who invites you to confront inner reality and thus find a richer life. The topic for tod
- J Krishnamurti Lectures Ojai 28 August 1958 - Answers and Conclusions
This is fourteen in a series of fourteen lectures by the unique teacher and world-wide lecturer J. Krishnamurti who invites you to confront inner reality and thus find a richer life.
- J Krishnamurti Lectures Ojai 28 August 1958 - Ideas and Ambition
This is eight in a series of fourteen lectures by the unique teacher and world-wide lecturer J. Krishnamurti who invites you to confront inner reality and thus find a richer life. The topic for today
- J Krishnamurti Lectures Rishi Valley 4th november 1967 - Vol 1
This is one in a series of three lectures recorded in Rishi Valley USA by the unique teacher and world-wide lecturer J. Krishnamurti who invites you to confront inner reality.
- J Krishnamurti Lectures Rishi Valley 8th November 1967 - Vol 2
This is two in a series of three lectures recorded in Rishi Valley USA by the unique teacher and world-wide lecturer J. Krishnamurti who invites you to confront inner reality.
- J Krishnamurti Lectures Rishi Valley 11 November 1967 Rishi Valley Public Talk 3
This is Three in a series of three lectures recorded in Rishi Valley USA by the unique teacher and world-wide lecturer J. Krishnamurti who invites you to confront inner reality.
- J Krishnamurti Lectures Rome 10th March 1968 - 1 of 3
This is one in a series of three lectures recorded in Rome by the unique teacher and world-wide lecturer J. Krishnamurti who invites you to confront inner reality and thus find a richer life.
- J Krishnamurti Lectures Rome 12th March 1968 - Vol 2 of 3
This is two in a series of three lectures recorded in Rome by the unique teacher and world-wide lecturer J. Krishnamurti who invites you to confront inner reality and thus find a richer life.
- J Krishnamurti Lectures Rome 17th March 1968 3 of 3
This is three in a series of three lectures recorded in Rome by the unique teacher and world-wide lecturer J. Krishnamurti who invites you to confront inner reality and thus find a richer life.
- J Krishnamutri in conversation with Prof Allan W Anderson Pt 1
At a time of unprecedented outer change in the political and social spheres, is there a fundamental inner change that is demanded of each one of us.
- j Krishnamutri in conversation with Prof Allan W Anderson Pt 2
At a time of unprecedented outer change in the political and social spheres, is there a fundamental inner change that is demanded of each one of us?
- Jean Paul Sartre
Sartre's existentialism faces the evil in human existence and sees that humans are responsible for it. He doubts man can make moral progress, yet he embraces the possibilities for human life. Manki...
- John Dewey
John Dewey wants philosophy to rise above old tired disputes to address new, more vital questions and problems. His views are known as
- Jung - A Very Short Introduction
Anthony Stevens argues that Jung's visionary powers and profound spirituality have helped many to find an alternative set of values to the arid materialism prevailing Western society.
- Kant in 90 Minutes
Immanuel Kant taught and wrote prolifically about physical geography yet never traveled further than forty miles from his home in Königsberg. How appropriate it is then that in his philosophy he sh...
- Kierkegaard in 90 Minutes
Kierkegaard wasn't really a philosopher in the academic sense. Yet he produced what many people expect of philosophy. He didn't write about the world, he wrote about life, about how we live and how...
- Living With Love
Understand the nature and structure of pleasure in relation to love.
- Lying, Secrecy, and Privacy
The moral command not to lie is among the simplest of all moral imperatives. Yet its counterpart, to tell the truth, is a subtle and complicated philosophical topic. Truth-telling is usually viewed...
- Maimonides and Medieval Jewish Philosophy
The first significant Jewish philosopher is recognized as Philo (ca 13 BC - 45/50 AD), who lived in Alexandria, Egypt. His biblical commentaries (written in Greek) powerfully influenced Christian p...
- Marx in 90 Minutes
In Marx in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Marx's life and ideas and explains their influence on man's struggle to understand his existence in the world.
- Meaning of Things, The
Courage, sorrow, love, death, hope, betrayal, blame, religion and depression. These are just a few of the topics A. C. Grayling covers in this guide to the Meaning of Life.
- Meditation Silence and the Quiet Mind
Religion, in the sense in which we are using that word, in which there is no kind of fear or belief, is the quality that makes for a life in which there is no fragmentation whatsoever.
- Medusa and the Snail, The: More Notes of a Biology Watcher
“Thomas manages to be poet, scientist, social critic, and Everyman, while writing with prose so clear it’s like looking through a jellyfish.” — Christian Science Monitor
- Moral Sense, The
Wilson admits in the preface of his book that
- Nicomachean Ethics, The
In the Nichomachean Ethics— so called after their first editor, Aristotle's son Nicomachus—Aristotle sets out to discover the good life for man, the life of happiness. He discourses on happiness, i...
- Occult America: The Secret History of How Mysticism Shaped Our Nation
“Employing extensive research while writing with an authoritative tone, Horowitz succeeds in showing how a ‘new spiritual culture’ developed in America” - Publishers Weekly.
- Philosophies of India, The
India has perhaps the oldest living philosophical tradition in the world. Its philosophies share five general characteristics: (1) an affirmation that there's an ultimate reality (such as Brahman o...
- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Winner of the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction
- Plato
Plato was the first person to organize and record the issues and questions that define philosophy. As Socrates' student, Plato preserved the teachings of his great mentor in many famous
- Plato In 90 Minutes
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...
- Prophet, The
Kahlil Gibran's greatest achievement.
- Republic, The
In The Republic, Plato tackles the big issues of the state and the individual.
- Republic, The
In this monumental work of moral and political philosophy, Plato sought to answer some of the world's most formidable questions.
- Return of the Prophet, The
With its universal themes, personal narrative, and timeless advice, The Return of the Prophet opens the doorway to a new generation's classic.
- Rousseau in 90 Minutes
In Rousseau in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Rousseau's life and ideas and explains their influence on man's struggle to understand his existence in the world.
- Sartre in 90 Minutes
In Sartre in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Sartre's life and ideas and explains their influence on man's struggle to understand his existence in the world.
- Schopenhuaer in 90 Minutes
In Schopenhauer in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Schopenhauer's life and ideas and explains their influence on man's struggle to understand his existence in the world.
- Second Lives: A Journey through Virtual Worlds
“Rich and colourful….an important mapping of a new social frontier.”— Guardian (London)
- Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir is best known for her association with the French Existentialist movement of the 1940s (a close relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre), and for the book that many claim gave birth t...
- Socrates
Though Socrates left no written works, there were many ancient accounts of his life and his philosophy. The most important of the surviving accounts are from three contemporaries (the comic poet Ar...
- Socrates in 90 Minutes
In Socrates in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Socrates's life and ideas and explains their influence on man's struggle to understand his existence in the world.
- Soren Kierkegaard
For Kierkegaard, truth is a subjective reality which we must live, not simply something to consider and discuss. His self-consciousness and self-examination highlight the practical demands of exist...
- Spinoza in 90 Minutes
In Spinoza in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Spinoza's life and ideas and explains their influence on man's struggle to understand his existence in the world.
- St Augustine
Aurelius Augustinus was a key figure in the transition from classical antiquity to the Middle Ages. He lived at a time when no distinction was made between philosophy and theology, and the purpose ...
- St Thomas Aquinas
In the late 13th century, this quiet reflective Dominican scholar concentrated his work on philosophical concerns that today would be considered to be partly theological. He combined the work of Ar...
- St. Augustine in 90 Minutes
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 w...
- Status Anxiety
This is a book about an almost universal anxiety that rarely gets mentioned directly: an anxiety about what others think of us, about whether we're judged a success or a failure. With the help of p...
- Stoics and Epicureans
The Stoics and Epicureans date from the Hellenistic period (ca. 323 BC - 31 BC), and both schools were heavily influenced by the philosophy of Socrates. The Epicurean mission was to live virtuously...
- Trial and the Death of Socrates, The
The trial and death of Socrates remains a powerful document not least because it gives a first-hand account of the end of one of the greatest figures in history.
- Walden and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
Henry David Thoreau is considered one of the most influential figures in American thought and literature.
- Wisdom of the Ages
In this inspiring audio, bestselling author Wayne W. Dyer poses the question,
- World Without Heroes, A
George Roche's A World without Heroes harshly rebukes secular humanism as the most dehumanizing force in our modern age. This ringing defense of Christianity, humorous, insightful and uncompromisin...
