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Philosophy for busy people who are always on the go but have always wanted to read up on certain figures in history that have shaped the way we think and live. Listen to this succinct account of the philosophy of Heidegger in just one hour. One of the two major philosophical traditions of the...

Philosophy for busy people. Listen to a succinct account of the philosophy of Russell in just one hour. Bertrand Russell claimed to be driven by three great passions that drove his personal as well as his intellectual life: a longing for love, a quest for knowledge and a heart-rending pity for...

Philosophy for busy people. Read a succinct account of the philosophy of Leibniz in just one hour. Leibniz was the first great German philosopher to produce an all-embracing philosophical system. He came to the remarkable conclusion that space and time do not exist – they are mere...

Philosophy for busy people. Read a succinct account of the philosophy of John Dewey in just one hour. In early twentieth-century America John Dewey was regarded as the foremost philosopher of his age – no mean feat when his colleagues included the likes of Russell, Wittgenstein and Heidegger...

Philosophy for busy people. Read a succinct account of the philosophy of St Augustine in just one hour. Augustine’s Confessions details his personal struggles with morality, his spiritual crisis and the conversion to Christianity that ultimately led him to his major contribution to philosophy...

Philosophy for busy people. Listen to a succinct account of the philosophy of Confucius in just one hour. This is the perfect audiobook for people who are on the go and don’t have time to read philosophy books but wish they knew more about certain people and how they influenced history. This...

Philosophy for busy people. Listen to a succinct account of the philosophy of Hume in just one hour. Hume reduced philosophy to ruins, denying the existence of everything except our actual perceptions themselves. The world is nothing more than part of my consciousness. Yet we know the world...

Great cities are complex, chaotic and colossal. These are cities that dominate the world stage and define eras; where ideas flourish, revolutions are born and history is made. Through ten unique cities, from the founding of ancient capitals to buzzing modern megacities, Paul Strathern explores...

Philosophy for busy people. Listen to a succinct account of the philosophy of J.S. Mill in just one hour. John Stuart Mill is remembered today as the leading exponent of Utilitarianism, arguing that our aim in life must be the attainment of pleasure and the minimizing of pain for the majority of...

Philosophy for busy people. Listen to a succinct account of the philosophy of Berkeley in just one hour. Berkeley’s philosophy denies the existence of matter. According to his work, there is no material world, only our own experience. So when you don’t see something, it isn’t there. Then...

Philosophy for busy people. Listen to this succinct account of the philosophy of Rousseau in just one hour. In Rousseau we encounter a walking ego, a naked sensibility – his arguments are both deeply stirring and deeply inconsistent. Yet whilst his contemporaries Kant and Hume may have been...

Philosophy for busy people. Listen to this succinct account of the philosophy of Aristotle in just one hour. The philosophy of Aristotle dominated Western thought for over a thousand years. He had a mind that mastered all disciplines from mathematics to politics and had a continuing impact on...

Philosophy for busy people. Listen to this succinct account of the philosophy of Locke in just one hour. Much of Locke’s thought we would now regard as common sense. One of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers; his philosophy was to lay the foundations of empiricism with its belief...

Philosophy for busy people. Listen to a succinct account of the philosophy of Aquinas in just one hour. Thomas Aquinas remains the unacknowledged maestro of Scholasticism – the static, cumulative philosophy of the medieval period. More a method of learning than pure theology, Aquinas’...

Leibniz fue el primero de los grandes filósofos alemanes en producir un sistema filosófico omnicomprensivo. Llegó a la notable conclusión de que el tiempo y el espacio no existen, de que son suposiciones supersticiosas. Sólo las cosas existen, y sólo...

Tres de los cuatro hermanos varones de Ludwig Wittgenstein –a cual más brillante– acabarían por suicidarse, una posibilidad que contempló el propio Ludwig varias veces a lo largo de su vida. Afortunadamente, quien estaba destinado a ser el miembro útil de una...

De la vida de Confucio, cuya filosofía ha conformado las vidas de millones de seres humanos durante más de dos milenios, lo desconocemos casi todo. Las reglas de conducta que nos legara perduran, pese a que apenas conservamos una breve compilación de aforismos y má...

En Kant en 90 minutos, Paul Strathern expone de manera clara y concisa la vida e ideas del autor de la Crítica de la razón pura. El libro incluye una selección de sus escritos, una breve lista de lecturas sugeridas y cronologías que sitúan a Kant en su é...

El ordenador ha revolucionado la era moderna de las comunicaciones y la información, y su desarrollo, al que contribuyó de forma fundamental Alan Turing, supone uno de los mayores logros del siglo XX. Sin embargo, ¿cuántos de nosotros sabemos cómo funciona...

Curie y la radiactividad presenta una brillante instantánea de la vida y la obra de Marie Curie y ofrece una explicación clara y accesible del significado e importancia del descubrimiento de la radioactividad y de las implicaciones que ello tendría para la vida en el siglo...