AuthorEdward Craig
NarratorMaurice West
Duration3h 33m
CategoriesChildren and Young Adult Non-Fiction and Educational Titles, Philosophy
Key StageA Level
PublisherNaxos
VersionAbridged
How ought we to live? How do we know? An ideal introduction for anyone who has ever been puzzled by what philosophy is or what it is for. The author shows how thinkers such as Plato, Descartes, Hobbes, Hume, Hegel, Darwin, Mill and de Beauvoir were responding to real needs and events - and how much of their work still shapes our lives today.
Author: Christopher Hitchens
Author Christopher Hitchens
Narrator Christopher Hitchens
Duration 8h 50m
This audiobook makes the ultimate case against religion. In a series of acute readings of the major religious texts, Christopher Hitchens demonstrates the ways in which religion is man-made, dangerously sexually repressive and distorts the very origins of the cosmos. With robust clarity, Hitchens frames the argument for a more secular life based o...
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Karma and Rebirth - In A Nutshell
Author: Jinananda
Author Jinananda
Narrator Jinananda
Duration 1h 18m
Karma and rebirth are words used by many but properly understood by few. In his accessible introduction, Jinananda explains that although these concepts are presumed to be principally from the East, they have in fact been part of the life-view of societies all over the world. However, it is the cultures of India, Tibet and China that colour the con...
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Ethics: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Simon Blackburn
Author Simon Blackburn
Narrator Robin Houston
Duration 4h 15m
Are there real standards? If God is dead is everything permitted? A short and accessible introduction to ethics. Part of the 'Very Short Introduction To...' series from Oxford University Press
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