Free Philosophers Audiobooks

Cozy up by the fireplace with this free version of Bertrand Russell's classic 1945 book The History Of Western Philosophy.

Psychologist William James now stands as one of the true intellectual titans to come out of late 19th century America. With The Will to Believe, first published in 1896, he argues that it is defendable to adopt a certain belief without prior evidence of its truth.

Download and listen to this major work by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. In this work Nietzsche sets out to transcend traditional morality and condemns much of Western philosophy for being subservient to this morality.

The Enchiridion (or "Handbook") is a classic philosophical text that collects Epictetus' core ethical teachings.

Listen to the final dialogue of Socrates as he defends himself against the charges of "corrupting the young, and by not believing in the gods in whom the city believes". Plato's account of this speech from 399 BC contains Socrates final thoughts on being sentenced to death and his reasons for accepting this fate.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a 19th century literary masterpiece and key philosophical work by Nietzsche.

Save for his raucous, rhapsodical autobiography, Ecce Homo, The Antichrist is the last thing that Nietzsche ever wrote, and so it may be accepted as a statement of some of his most salient ideas in their final form.

Listen to one of Friedrich Nietzsche's last and most mature works: The Twilight of the Idols. In this book Nietzsche confronts Socrates, morality, reason, and much else.

Listen to this classic work of philosophy written by Boethius in 524 AD. Boethius wrote this work while awaiting trial for which he was executed.

Epictetus was a Greek Stoic philosopher. The name given by his parents, if one was given, is not known - the word epiktetos in Greek simply means “acquired.”