- Educators (250)
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Memories, Dreams, Reflections
- By: C.G. Jung
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 16 hrs and 51 mins
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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.
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My favorite Audible production so far
- By Gaggleframpf on 05-03-16
By: C.G. Jung
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The Visionaries
- Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the Power of Philosophy in Dark Times
- By: Wolfram Eilenberger, Shaun Whiteside
- Narrated by: Hannah Curtis
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
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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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Satire and Beauvoir’s problematic behavior; Simone Weil’s problematic self-immolation
- By Louise Beecher on 03-24-24
By: Wolfram Eilenberger, and others
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How to Think Like a Woman
- Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind
- By: Regan Penaluna
- Narrated by: Angie Kane
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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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
- By Mahmoud Rasmi on 04-07-23
By: Regan Penaluna
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Marcus Aurelius
- The Stoic Emperor
- By: Donald J. Robertson
- Narrated by: Donald J. Robertson
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
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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
- By J. Gilmore on 02-17-24
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The Rigor of Angels
- Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
- By: William Egginton
- Narrated by: David Glass
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
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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
- By Anonymous User on 03-07-24
By: William Egginton
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In My Own Way
- By: Alan Watts
- Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur
- Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
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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.
- By Gene Levinson on 03-20-19
By: Alan Watts
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Memories, Dreams, Reflections
- By: C.G. Jung
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 16 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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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.
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My favorite Audible production so far
- By Gaggleframpf on 05-03-16
By: C.G. Jung
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The Visionaries
- Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the Power of Philosophy in Dark Times
- By: Wolfram Eilenberger, Shaun Whiteside
- Narrated by: Hannah Curtis
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Satire and Beauvoir’s problematic behavior; Simone Weil’s problematic self-immolation
- By Louise Beecher on 03-24-24
By: Wolfram Eilenberger, and others
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How to Think Like a Woman
- Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind
- By: Regan Penaluna
- Narrated by: Angie Kane
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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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
- By Mahmoud Rasmi on 04-07-23
By: Regan Penaluna
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Marcus Aurelius
- The Stoic Emperor
- By: Donald J. Robertson
- Narrated by: Donald J. Robertson
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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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
- By J. Gilmore on 02-17-24
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The Rigor of Angels
- Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
- By: William Egginton
- Narrated by: David Glass
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
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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
- By Anonymous User on 03-07-24
By: William Egginton
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In My Own Way
- By: Alan Watts
- Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur
- Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
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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.
- By Gene Levinson on 03-20-19
By: Alan Watts
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How to Live
- Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
- By: Sarah Bakewell
- Narrated by: Davina Porter
- Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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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.
- By Darwin8u on 05-21-12
By: Sarah Bakewell
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At the Existentialist Café
- Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
- By: Sarah Bakewell
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 14 hrs and 39 mins
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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
- By Gary on 06-19-16
By: Sarah Bakewell
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Symposium
- By: Plato
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 2 hrs and 31 mins
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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
- By Cathy Dopp on 02-16-06
By: Plato
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I've Been Thinking...
- By: Daniel C. Dennett
- Narrated by: Graham Winton
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
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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
- By Abraham P. on 10-16-23
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I Am Dynamite!
- A Life of Nietzsche
- By: Sue Prideaux
- Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
- Length: 17 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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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
- By Cineaste21 on 12-30-18
By: Sue Prideaux
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The Price of Peace
- Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes
- By: Zachary D. Carter
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 22 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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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
- By Amazon Customer on 06-02-20
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Time of the Magicians
- Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger, and the Decade that Reinvented Philosophy
- By: Wolfram Eilenberger, Shaun Whiteside
- Narrated by: Rhett Samuel Price
- Length: 13 hrs
- Unabridged
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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
- By William G. Brown on 08-31-20
By: Wolfram Eilenberger, and others
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The First Philosophers
- The Presocratics and Sophists
- By: Robin Waterfield
- Narrated by: Adrian Hobart
- Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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This volume contains a translation of all the most important fragments of the Presocratics and Sophists, and of the most informative testimonia from ancient sources....
By: Robin Waterfield
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The Sublimely Beautiful: A Glimpse of Plotinus and His Thought
- By: Plotinus, Porphyry
- Narrated by: Joe Wosik
- Length: 1 hr and 45 mins
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This small audiobook provides a biographical outline of Plotinus' life and work as described by Porphyry. Also included is an essay by Plotinus on beauty....
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Plotinus is Devine. But, the narration is horrible
- By Jeffrey Loree on 09-04-20
By: Plotinus, and others
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Apprenticed to a Himalayan Master
- A Yogi's Autobiography
- By: Sri M.
- Narrated by: Gaurav Sajjanhar
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
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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
- By Rohini Rajagopalan on 01-07-20
By: Sri M.
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Cosmic Trigger III
- My Life After Death
- By: Robert Anton Wilson
- Narrated by: Oliver Senton
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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The first volume of the Cosmic Trigger series describes in vivid elucidation the perils of a spiritual journey. In this third and final volume, Bob digs even deeper and uncovers the masks of reality and the reality of masks....
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Excellent narrator!
- By MC on 07-27-22
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Knowledge in a Nutshell: Carl Jung
- The Complete Guide to the Great Psychoanalyst, Including the Unconscious, Archetypes and the Self
- By: Gary Bobroff
- Narrated by: Eric Meyers
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
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Carl Jung was the founder of analytical psychology who revolutionized the way we approached the human psyche. Drawing on Eastern mysticism, mythology and dream analysis to develop his theories, Jung proposed many ideas which are still influential today....
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Great synthesis on Jung
- By Adriana P. on 12-16-22
By: Gary Bobroff
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Why We Drive
- Toward a Philosophy of the Open Road
- By: Matthew B. Crawford
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
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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.
- By johnson on 08-19-20
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Aquinas
- An Audio Guide
- By: Edward Feser
- Narrated by: Adrian Mulraney
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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St Thomas Aquinas established the foundations for much of modern philosophy of religion, and is famous for his arguments for the existence of God....
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Excellent book marred by faulty pronunciation
- By Charles on 09-13-15
By: Edward Feser
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The Dangerous Life and Ideas of Diogenes the Cynic
- By: Jean-Manuel Roubineau, Malcolm DeBevoise - translator, Phillip Mitsis - editor
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
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Roubineau sifts through the many legends and apocryphal stories that surround the life of Diogenes. Roubineau retraces the known facts of Diogenes' existence....
By: Jean-Manuel Roubineau, and others
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Confessions
- By: Augustine, Peter C. Brown, Michael Foley, and others
- Narrated by: Mike Fraser
- Length: 15 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Superbly narrated by Mike Fraser, F. J. Sheed’s remarkable translation of this classic spiritual autobiography is finally in audio format, with an introduction by noted historian of late antiquity Peter Brown.
By: Augustine, and others
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The Meditations: An Emperor's Guide to Mastery
- By: Marcus Aurelius, Ancient Renewal, Sam Torode - translator
- Narrated by: Sam Torode
- Length: 2 hrs and 23 mins
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How to think clearly, act purposefully, overcome any obstacle, and find peace and happiness along the way....
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Stoic philosophy at its finest
- By Mac on 09-24-19
By: Marcus Aurelius, and others
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The Rebel's Clinic
- The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon
- By: Adam Shatz
- Narrated by: Terrence Kidd
- Length: 15 hrs and 57 mins
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In the era of Black Lives Matter, Frantz Fanon's shadow looms larger than ever. He was the intellectual activist of the postcolonial era, and his writings about race, revolution, and the psychology of power continue to shape radical movements across the world.
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Read, don’t listen
- By Howard Schatz, MD on 07-20-24
By: Adam Shatz
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The Quest for Character
- What the Story of Socrates and Alcibiades Teaches Us About Our Search for Good Leaders
- By: Massimo Pigliucci
- Narrated by: Alan Carlson
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
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Is good character something that can be taught? In 430 BCE, Socrates set out to teach the vain, power-seeking Athenian statesman Alcibiades how to be a good person—and failed spectacularly. Massimo Pigliucci tells this famous story and asks what we can learn from it....
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another great work by Massimo
- By Cameron on 11-14-22
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Ibn Sina
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Peter Adamson
- Narrated by: David Stifel
- Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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This book provides an introduction to the most important philosopher of the Islamic world, Ibn Sina, often known in English by his Latinized name Avicenna....
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Brief but thorough
- By Anonymous User on 06-19-24
By: Peter Adamson
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Ideas and Opinions
- By: Albert Einstein
- Narrated by: Will Stauff
- Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
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Unravel the enigmatic depths of Albert Einstein's mind in "Ideas and Opinions." This captivating collection, compiled by the master himself, unveils his diverse perspectives on science, philosophy, social issues, and even religion.
By: Albert Einstein
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Martin Heidegger
- By: George Steiner
- Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
- Length: 6 hrs
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With characteristic lucidity and style, Steiner makes Heidegger's immensely difficult body of work accessible to the general reader.
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Fantastic - very approachable yet competent
- By Bob on 04-15-19
By: George Steiner
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We Are Free to Change the World
- Hannah Arendt's Lessons in Love and Disobedience
- By: Lyndsey Stonebridge
- Narrated by: Cosima Shaw
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
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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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Aristotle's Way
- How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life
- By: Edith Hall
- Narrated by: Sian Thomas
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
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From renowned classicist Edith Hall, Aristotle's Way is an examination of one of history's greatest philosophers, showing us how to lead happy, fulfilled, and meaningful lives....
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Full of Political Opinion
- By Jared Payne on 10-15-19
By: Edith Hall