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Laws is Plato's last and longest dialogue. It is generally agreed that Plato wrote this dialogue as an older man, having failed in his effort in Syracuse on the island of Sicily to guide a tyrant's rule, instead having been thrown in prison.
The Classical Greek philosopher Plato was instrumental in the development of Western philosophy and science. Plato was born to an aristocratic family and was well-educated. He founded the Academy, one of the first institutions of higher learning, around 385 BC. Plato was highly influenced by his teacher, Socrates. Socrates was condemned to death after being accused of corrupting his young followers. After Socrates' death, Plato recorded several dialogues detailing what he remembered from Socrates' teachings and interactions with others. Almost everything known about Socrates comes from Plato's dialogues. Plato's writings have been revised and interpreted by a variety of publishers.
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The story of philosophy is an epic tale, spanning civilizations and continents. It explores some of the most creative minds in history. But not since the long-popular classic by Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy, published in 1945, has there been a comprehensive and entertaining single-volume history of this great, intellectual, world-shaping journey.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A much needed update to Bertrand Russell's classic
- De Michael en 06-27-20
De: A. C. Grayling
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Culture and Imperialism
- De: Edward Said
- Narrado por: Peter Ganim
- Duración: 19 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 189
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 153
A landmark work from the intellectually auspicious author of Orientalism, this book explores the long-overlooked connections between the Western imperial endeavor and the culture that both reflected and reinforced it. This classic study, the direct successor to Said's main work, is read by Peter Ganim ( Orientalism).
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5 out of 5 stars
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BRAVO, AUDIBLE!! WE NEED MORE SAID!! REAL BOOKS!!
- De AnthonyStevens en 02-27-11
De: Edward Said
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How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization
- De: Thomas E. Woods Jr.
- Narrado por: Barrett Whitener
- Duración: 7 h
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,261
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,005
Western civilization has given us modern science, the wealth of free-market economics, the security of law, a sense of human rights and freedom, charity as a virtue, splendid art and music, philosophy grounded in reason, and innumerable other gifts we take for granted.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating and informative
- De Michael Kellogg en 09-29-05
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A Short History of Ethics
- De: Alasdair MacIntyre
- Narrado por: Tim Dalgleish
- Duración: 12 h y 20 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 48
A Short History of Ethics is a significant contribution written by one of the most important living philosophers. It remains an important work, ideal for all students interested in ethics and morality.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great philosopher made ridiculous by accents
- De Olivia Walling en 10-04-17
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Philosophy: 100 Essential Thinkers
- The Ideas That Have Shaped Our World
- De: Philip Stokes
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 8 h y 12 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 116
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 94
This engaging and accessible book invites the listener to explore the questions and arguments of philosophy through the work of 100 of the greatest thinkers within the Western intellectual tradition - covering philosophical, scientific, political, and religious thought over a period of 2500 years.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Unpretentious, honest, with a big picture
- De Mike S. en 05-29-17
De: Philip Stokes
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The Twilight of the American Enlightenment
- The 1950s and the Crisis of Liberal Belief
- De: George M. Marsden
- Narrado por: William Hughes
- Duración: 6 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 114
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 91
In the aftermath of World War II, the United States stood at a precipice. The forces of modernity unleashed by the war had led to astonishing advances in daily life, but technology and mass culture also threatened to erode the country's traditional moral character. As award-winning historian George M. Marsden explains in The Twilight of the American Enlightenment, postwar Americans looked to the country's secular liberalelites for guidance in this precarious time, but these intellectuals proved unable to articulate a coherent common cause by which America could chart its course.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Such a relevant book to our current world
- De Adam Shields en 09-14-16
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Ibn Khaldun
- An Intellectual Biography
- De: Robert Irwin
- Narrado por: John Telfer
- Duración: 9 h y 34 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 82
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 68
Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406) is generally regarded as the greatest intellectual ever to have appeared in the Arab world - a genius who ranks as one of the world's great minds. Yet the author of the Muqaddima, the most important study of history ever produced in the Islamic world, is not as well known as he should be, and his ideas are widely misunderstood. In this groundbreaking intellectual biography, Robert Irwin provides an engaging and authoritative account of Ibn Khaldun's extraordinary life, times, writings, and ideas.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Issues with accuracy, pronounciation
- De Moh 3aly en 01-02-19
De: Robert Irwin
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The Enlightenment
- And Why It Still Matters
- De: Anthony Pagden
- Narrado por: Robert Blumenfeld
- Duración: 16 h y 24 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 126
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 110
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 111
One of our most renowned and brilliant historians takes a fresh look at the revolutionary intellectual movement that laid the foundation for the modern world. Liberty and equality. Human rights. Freedom of thought and expression. Belief in reason and progress. The value of scientific inquiry. These are just some of the ideas that were conceived and developed during the Enlightenment, and which changed forever the intellectual landscape of the Western world.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A thorough political tract rather than history
- De Jacobus en 03-08-14
De: Anthony Pagden
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What Are We Doing Here?
- De: Marilynne Robinson
- Narrado por: Carrington MacDuffie
- Duración: 11 h y 7 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 25
Marilynne Robinson has plumbed the human spirit in her renowned novels, including Lila and Gilead, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In this new essay collection she trains her incisive mind on our modern political climate and the mysteries of faith. Whether she is investigating how the work of great thinkers about America, like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Alexis de Tocqueville, inform our political consciousness or discussing how beauty informs and disciplines daily life, Robinson's peerless prose and boundless humanity are on full display.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Unpersuasive and a bit repetitive
- De Adam Shields en 03-07-18
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A Book Forged in Hell
- Spinoza’s Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age
- De: Steven Nadler
- Narrado por: John Lescault
- Duración: 9 h y 17 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 320
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 280
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 275
When it appeared in 1670, Baruch Spinoza’s Theological-Political Treatise was denounced as the most dangerous book ever published. In A Book Forged in Hell, Steven Nadler tells the fascinating story of this extraordinary book: its radical claims and their background in the philosophical, religious, and political tensions of the Dutch Golden Age, as well as the vitriolic reaction these ideas inspired.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Well researched, comprehensive intro to Spinoza’s work.
- De Tom en 01-27-22
De: Steven Nadler
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Battling the Gods
- Atheism in the Ancient World
- De: Tim Whitmarsh
- Narrado por: James Langton
- Duración: 10 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 97
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 88
Long before the European Enlightenment and the Darwinian revolution, which we often take to mark the birth of the modern revolt against religious explanations of the world, brave people doubted the power of the gods. Religion provoked skepticism in ancient Greece, and heretics argued that history must be understood as a result of human action rather than divine intervention. They devised theories of the cosmos based on matter and notions of matter based on atoms.
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5 out of 5 stars
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We have a history as long and as rich as any relig
- De Glencannnon en 08-13-19
De: Tim Whitmarsh
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Nature's God
- The Heretical Origins of the American Republic
- De: Matthew Stewart
- Narrado por: Michael Quinlan
- Duración: 17 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 110
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 100
Where did the ideas come from that became the cornerstone of American democracy? Not only the erudite Thomas Jefferson, the wily and elusive Ben Franklin, and the underappreciated Thomas Paine, but also Ethan Allen, the hero of the Green Mountain Boys, and Thomas Young, the forgotten Founder who kicked off the Boston Tea Party. These radicals who founded America set their sights on a revolution of the mind. Derided as "infidels" and "atheists" in their own time, they wanted to liberate us not just from one king but from the tyranny of supernatural religion.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent exploration of this subject
- De Caroline en 01-13-15
De: Matthew Stewart
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The God Argument
- The Case Against Religion and for Humanism
- De: A. C. Grayling
- Narrado por: William Roberts
- Duración: 7 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 208
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 188
What are the arguments for and against religion and religious belief - all of them - right across the range of reasons and motives that people have for being religious, and do they stand up to scrutiny? Can there be a clear, full statement of these arguments that once and for all will show what is at stake in this debate? Equally important: what is the alternative to religion as a view of the world and a foundation for morality?
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2 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating Topic Made Mind Numbingly Dull
- De m.emery en 06-17-15
De: A. C. Grayling
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The Dream of Enlightenment
- The Rise of Modern Philosophy
- De: Anthony Gottlieb
- Narrado por: Anthony Gottlieb
- Duración: 10 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 192
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 166
In The Dream of Enlightenment, Anthony Gottlieb expertly navigates a second great explosion of thought, taking us to northern Europe in the wake of its wars of religion and the rise of Galilean science. In a relatively short period - from the early 1640s to the eve of the French Revolution - Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Leibniz, and Hume all made their mark. The Dream of Enlightenment tells their story and that of the birth of modern philosophy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Enlightenment meets Neuroscience
- De Rodger en 12-05-19
De: Anthony Gottlieb
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Rocks of Ages
- Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life
- De: Stephen Jay Gould
- Narrado por: Richard McGonagle
- Duración: 4 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 106
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 52
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 50
In this fascinating history of the age-old battle between Science and Religion, evolutionist Stephen Jay Gould argues that part of living the full human experience is achieving a balance between the spiritual and the rational."
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3 out of 5 stars
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Tame and bland compared to his other books
- De John Mertus en 01-15-05