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Memories, Dreams, Reflections
- De: C.G. Jung
- Narrado por: James Cameron Stewart
- Duración: 16 h y 51 m
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In 1957, four years before his death, Carl Gustav Jung, psychiatrist and psychologist, began writing his life story. But what started as an exercise in autobiography soon morphed into an altogether more profound undertaking.
De: C.G. Jung
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The Harvard Psychedelic Club
- How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America
- De: Don Lattin
- Narrado por: John Pruden
- Duración: 7 h y 47 m
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Journalist Don Lattin provides the funny, moving inside story of the "Cambridge Quartet"....
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A Fascinating, Engaging Story, Expertly Told
- De Gillian Culff en 12-12-19
De: Don Lattin
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Machiavelli
- Philosopher of Power
- De: Ross King
- Narrado por: Tim Reynolds
- Duración: 7 h y 11 m
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Machiavelli is a superb portrait of the brilliant and revolutionary political philosopher - history's most famous theorist of "warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed" - and the age he embodied....
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Awesome
- De Crisitna Tunon en 07-16-21
De: Ross King
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Marcus Aurelius
- The Stoic Emperor
- De: Donald J. Robertson
- Narrado por: Donald J. Robertson
- Duración: 6 h y 34 m
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Experience the world of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius and the tremendous challenges he faced and overcame with the help of Stoic philosophy.
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Robertson does it again
- De J. Gilmore en 02-17-24
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The Rigor of Angels
- Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
- De: William Egginton
- Narrado por: David Glass
- Duración: 10 h y 14 m
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Argentine poet Jorge Luis Borges was madly in love when his life was shattered by painful heartbreak....
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The most ridiculous narration
- De Anonymous User en 03-07-24
De: William Egginton
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How to Live
- Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
- De: Sarah Bakewell
- Narrado por: Davina Porter
- Duración: 13 h y 26 m
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This question obsessed Renaissance writers, none more than Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, perhaps the first recognizably modern individual....
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Interesting and in parts Inspired.
- De Darwin8u en 05-21-12
De: Sarah Bakewell
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Memories, Dreams, Reflections
- De: C.G. Jung
- Narrado por: James Cameron Stewart
- Duración: 16 h y 51 m
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In 1957, four years before his death, Carl Gustav Jung, psychiatrist and psychologist, began writing his life story. But what started as an exercise in autobiography soon morphed into an altogether more profound undertaking.
De: C.G. Jung
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The Harvard Psychedelic Club
- How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America
- De: Don Lattin
- Narrado por: John Pruden
- Duración: 7 h y 47 m
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Journalist Don Lattin provides the funny, moving inside story of the "Cambridge Quartet"....
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A Fascinating, Engaging Story, Expertly Told
- De Gillian Culff en 12-12-19
De: Don Lattin
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Machiavelli
- Philosopher of Power
- De: Ross King
- Narrado por: Tim Reynolds
- Duración: 7 h y 11 m
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Machiavelli is a superb portrait of the brilliant and revolutionary political philosopher - history's most famous theorist of "warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed" - and the age he embodied....
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Awesome
- De Crisitna Tunon en 07-16-21
De: Ross King
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Marcus Aurelius
- The Stoic Emperor
- De: Donald J. Robertson
- Narrado por: Donald J. Robertson
- Duración: 6 h y 34 m
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Experience the world of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius and the tremendous challenges he faced and overcame with the help of Stoic philosophy.
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Robertson does it again
- De J. Gilmore en 02-17-24
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The Rigor of Angels
- Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
- De: William Egginton
- Narrado por: David Glass
- Duración: 10 h y 14 m
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Argentine poet Jorge Luis Borges was madly in love when his life was shattered by painful heartbreak....
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The most ridiculous narration
- De Anonymous User en 03-07-24
De: William Egginton
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How to Live
- Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
- De: Sarah Bakewell
- Narrado por: Davina Porter
- Duración: 13 h y 26 m
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This question obsessed Renaissance writers, none more than Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, perhaps the first recognizably modern individual....
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Interesting and in parts Inspired.
- De Darwin8u en 05-21-12
De: Sarah Bakewell
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I've Been Thinking...
- De: Daniel C. Dennett
- Narrado por: Graham Winton
- Duración: 14 h y 27 m
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Daniel C. Dennett—preeminent philosopher and cognitive scientist—has spent his career creating the basis for a naturalistic account of consciousness with acumen and elegance. I’ve Been Thinking traces the development of Dennett’s own intellect and instructs us how we too can become good thinkers....
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Some pockets of wisdom but mostly self-gloating
- De Abraham P. en 10-16-23
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At the Existentialist Café
- Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
- De: Sarah Bakewell
- Narrado por: Antonia Beamish
- Duración: 14 h y 39 m
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Paris, 1933: Three contemporaries meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse - Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and longtime friend Raymond Aron....
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Consistent look at incoherent philosophy
- De Gary en 06-19-16
De: Sarah Bakewell
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All Too Human
- A Political Education
- De: George Stephanopoulos
- Narrado por: George Stephanopoulos
- Duración: 3 h y 13 m
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For four years in the White House and one year of campaigning before that, he was rarely more than a few steps behind...
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Abridged!
- De Ash-li en 11-21-16
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Symposium
- De: Plato
- Narrado por: full cast
- Duración: 2 h y 31 m
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The Greek word sumposion means a drinking party, and the party described in Plato's Symposium is one supposedly given in the year 416 BC by the playwright Agathon....
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Greek Philosophy over a Good Wine
- De Cathy Dopp en 02-16-06
De: Plato
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Why We Drive
- Toward a Philosophy of the Open Road
- De: Matthew B. Crawford
- Narrado por: Ron Butler
- Duración: 10 h y 23 m
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Once we were drivers, the open road alive with autonomy, adventure, danger, trust, and speed. Today we are as likely to be in the back seat of an Uber as behind the wheel ourselves. Tech giants are hurling us toward a shiny, happy "self-driving" future....
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Another masterpiece by Crawford.
- De johnson en 08-19-20
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Stoicism Mastery
- Mastering the Stoic Way of Life
- De: Ryan James
- Narrado por: Eric Burr
- Duración: 1 h y 13 m
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Are you ready to lead a life that is full of virtue, where you are able to lead a good life that isn't controlled by your emotions but still allows you to have empathy and feelings for others....
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Less than meh.
- De Amazon Customer en 06-24-17
De: Ryan James
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Ashoka
- Portrait of a Philosopher King
- De: Patrick Olivelle
- Narrado por: Neil Shah
- Duración: 12 h y 6 m
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Patrick Olivelle draws on Ashoka's inscriptions and on the art and architecture he pioneered to craft a detailed picture of Ashoka as a ruler, a Buddhist, a moral philosopher, and an ecumenist who governed a vast multiethnic, multi-linguistic, and multi-religious empire.
De: Patrick Olivelle
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Beyond the Wager
- The Christian Brilliance of Blaise Pascal
- De: Douglas Groothuis
- Narrado por: Lyle Blaker
- Duración: 7 h y 11 m
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Blaise Pascal, the seventeenth-century French philosopher and scientist, is perhaps best known for his "wager," an argument about the existence of God. But there was much more to Pascal and his brilliance.
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Great book
- De Jim en 04-13-24
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We Are Free to Change the World
- Hannah Arendt's Lessons in Love and Disobedience
- De: Lyndsey Stonebridge
- Narrado por: Cosima Shaw
- Duración: 10 h y 13 m
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A timely guide on how to live—and think—through the challenges of our century drawn from the life and thought of political theorist Hannah Arendt, one of the twentieth century’s foremost opponents of totalitarianism....
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I Am Dynamite!
- A Life of Nietzsche
- De: Sue Prideaux
- Narrado por: Nicholas Guy Smith
- Duración: 17 h y 19 m
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Nietzsche wrote that all philosophy is autobiographical, and in this vividly compelling, myth-shattering biography, Sue Prideaux brings listeners into the world of this brilliant, eccentric, and deeply troubled man, illuminating the events and people that shaped his life and work....
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Fascinating; tragic
- De Cineaste21 en 12-30-18
De: Sue Prideaux
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In My Own Way
- De: Alan Watts
- Narrado por: Jeremy Arthur
- Duración: 13 h y 39 m
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Macmillan Audio presents In My Own Way, Alan Watts' acclaimed autobiography, published for the first time in audio....
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This is Alan Watts at his very best, as a free spirit.
- De Gene Levinson en 03-20-19
De: Alan Watts
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Spinoza: Freedom's Messiah
- Jewish Lives
- De: Ian Buruma
- Narrado por: Lee Beddow
- Duración: 6 h y 22 m
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Ian Buruma explores the life and death of Baruch Spinoza, the Enlightenment thinker whose belief in freedom of thought and speech resonates in our own time
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Very good book, but
- De tw22 en 04-21-24
De: Ian Buruma
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How to Think Like a Woman
- Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind
- De: Regan Penaluna
- Narrado por: Angie Kane
- Duración: 8 h y 26 m
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In How to Think Like a Woman, Penaluna blends memoir, biography, and criticism to tell the stories of four women, weaving throughout an alternative history of philosophy. This is a moving meditation on what philosophy could look like if women were treated equally....
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The untold story of philosophy
- De Mahmoud Rasmi en 04-07-23
De: Regan Penaluna
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Apprenticed to a Himalayan Master
- A Yogi's Autobiography
- De: Sri M.
- Narrado por: Gaurav Sajjanhar
- Duración: 10 h y 15 m
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The author Sri "M" is an extraordinary individual. At the young age of 19 and a half, he travelled to snow-clad Himalayas from Kerala, and there he met and lived for several years with a "real-time" yogi, Babaji....
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The book lacks description of end result
- De Rohini Rajagopalan en 01-07-20
De: Sri M.
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Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent
- De: Robert F Barsky
- Narrado por: Robert F Barsky
- Duración: 9 h y 16 m
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This biography describes the intellectual and political milieus that helped shape Noam Chomsky, a pivotal figure in contemporary linguistics, politics, cognitive psychology, and philosophy.....
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No aporta mucho
- De Martin De Leon en 05-08-24
De: Robert F Barsky
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Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life
- De: Jonathan Sperber
- Narrado por: Kevin Stillwell
- Duración: 22 h y 49 m
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Jonathan Sperber, one of the United States' leading European historians, challenges many of our misconceptions of this political firebrand turned London journalist....
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Informative intellectual biography, poor reading
- De anonymous en 10-25-13
De: Jonathan Sperber
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Time of the Magicians
- Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger, and the Decade that Reinvented Philosophy
- De: Wolfram Eilenberger, Shaun Whiteside
- Narrado por: Rhett Samuel Price
- Duración: 13 h
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A grand narrative of the intertwining lives of Walter Benjamin, Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Ernst Cassirer, major philosophers whose ideas shaped the 20th century....
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Narrator butchers foreign many language quotations
- De William G. Brown en 08-31-20
De: Wolfram Eilenberger, y otros
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The Price of Peace
- Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes
- De: Zachary D. Carter
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 22 h y 50 m
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At the dawn of World War I, a young academic named John Maynard Keynes hastily folded his long legs into the sidecar of his brother-in-law’s motorcycle for an odd, frantic journey that would change the course of history....
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A must read for post COVID-19 crisis
- De Amazon Customer en 06-02-20
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The Visionaries
- Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the Power of Philosophy in Dark Times
- De: Wolfram Eilenberger, Shaun Whiteside
- Narrado por: Hannah Curtis
- Duración: 12 h y 26 m
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The period from 1933 to 1943 was one of the darkest and most chaotic in human history, as the Second World War unfolded with unthinkable cruelty. It was also a crucial decade in the dramatic, intersecting lives of some of history’s greatest philosophers....
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Very pleased at the treatment of these 4 women
- De Amazon Customer en 10-04-23
De: Wolfram Eilenberger, y otros
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Marcus Aurelius
- A Life from Beginning to End
- De: Hourly History
- Narrado por: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr
- Duración: 1 h y 1 m
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While names like Nero, Caligula, Hadrian, and Constantine grab all the attention, Marcus Aurelius tends to sit more in the historical background of the Roman Empire. Marcus, a prolific writer and formidable scholar, was perhaps the first to fulfill Plato’s dream of the philosopher king....
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Really good introduction
- De Stefan in KY en 08-09-22
De: Hourly History
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Nietzsche
- Fighting Demons
- De: Stefan Zweig, Vanessa Walsh - translator
- Narrado por: Tyler Boss
- Duración: 3 h y 1 m
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A dazzling biographical study of the greatest German philosopher of the nineteenth century by one of the most widely read German-language authors...
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Stunning
- De Hammad Khan en 07-02-23
De: Stefan Zweig, y otros
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The Courtier and the Heretic
- Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World
- De: Matthew Stewart
- Narrado por: Graham Rowat
- Duración: 13 h y 3 m
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In this exquisitely written philosophical romance of attraction and repulsion, greed and virtue, religion and heresy, Matthew Stewart gives narrative form to an epic contest of ideas that shook the seventeenth century—and continues today....
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A Fascinating and Surprisingly Comprehensive Work
- De Gus en 03-15-24
De: Matthew Stewart
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Up from Slavery
- De: Booker T. Washington
- Narrado por: Jowanna Lewis
- Duración: 6 h y 58 m
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Booker Taliaferro Washington was born in a southern plantation. He was a son of a black slave woman and unknown white man. His mother worked as...
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The Shadow of Vesuvius
- A Life of Pliny
- De: Daisy Dunn
- Narrado por: Mike Grady
- Duración: 8 h y 33 m
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When Pliny the Elder perished at Stabiae during the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79, he left behind an enormous compendium of knowledge, his 37-volume Natural History, and a teenaged nephew who revered him as a father....
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Enjoyable but lost track at times
- De Joshua Miller en 12-16-20
De: Daisy Dunn