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Title: Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous

Author: George Berkeley

Narrator: Ray Childs

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-10-16

Publisher: Agora, New Internet Technologies

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 11 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy

Publisher's Summary:

Berkeley uses the Socratic mode of inquiry in Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous to question fundamental beliefs about knowledge and reality. These dialogues are between Hylas (whose name is derived from the ancient Greek word for matter) and Philonous, whose name means "lover of mind".

The new physical sciences developed in the 17th century supported the materialism proposed by Thomas Hobbes and several other philosophers. This worldview proclaimed that all of reality consists of nothing but matter in motion, thus promoting atheism and ethical skepticism. The implications for politics, ethics, and religion caused concern among leading intellectuals in the 18th century.

Whatever the value of the positive claims presented in this work, Berkeley foreshadows the philosophical impact of 20th-century physics, which challenges the foundations of such materialism and calls for a better understanding of both the physical and the mental aspects of reality.

© Agora Publications

Members Reviews:

Ray Childs at it again

Ray brings the characters; their frustrations and convictions to life. Berkeley's best arguments for immateralisme.

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Title: De menselijke toon

Subtitle: Hoorcollege over de filosofie van de moderne mens

Author: Ger Groot

Narrator: Ger Groot

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-04-16

Publisher: Home Academy

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy

Publisher's Summary:

De moderne mens is een paradoxaal wezen dat - hoe rationeel ook - bij de diepste levensbeslissingen liever op het gevoel dan op de rede terugvalt. Hij doorziet de natuur wetenschappelijk, maar laat zich even graag door haar overweldigen. Hij kan (bijna) alles, maar weet niet of hij ook alles mág. In deze collegeserie laat Ger Groot zien welke filosofische ideeën de mens gevormd hebben tot het wezen dat hij nu is. In veel muziekwerken resoneren filosofische gedachten mee die deze ontwikkeling illustreren. Soms geschreven door componisten die zelf filosofen waren, zoals Rousseau en Nietzsche. Door gebruikmaking van diverse muziekfragmenten ontvouwt zich een muzikaal gedachtepanorama waarin we de hedendaagse mens langzaam geboren zien worden.

Inhoud:

Deel 1: De dageraad van de moderne tijd:

Deel 2: Verlichting:

Deel 3: Romantiek:

Deel 4: De gesplitste rede:

Deel 5: Friedrich Nietzsche:

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©2008 Home Academy (P)2008 Home Academy

Members Reviews:

Briljant

Would you consider the audio edition of De menselijke toon to be better than the print version?

De muziek als onderdeel van het verhaal is prachtig

What was one of the most memorable moments of De menselijke toon?

De onthoofding van Louis XVI als draaipunt in de Europese geschiedenis

Which character as performed by Ger Groot was your favorite?

nvt

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

Birth, childhood and development of modern thinking

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Titel: Verbrechen

Autor:: Ferdinand von Schirach

Erzähler: Burghart Klaußner

Format: Abridged

Spieldauer: 3 hrs and 28 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 01-06-16

Herausgeber: HörbucHHamburg HHV GmbH

Kategorien: Nonfiction, Philosophy

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Der renommierte Strafverteidiger Ferdinand von Schirach kennt die Brüche der Welt. Der Umgang mit Schuld und Unschuld bestimmt seinen Alltag. Doch was ist Schuld eigentlich? Wer will richten über Täter, die zugleich auch Opfer sind?

Mit dem scharfen Blick eines begnadeten Analytikers erzählt Ferdinand von Schirach von menschlichen Dramen und vielfachem Scheitern, von seelischen Abgründen, die sich einer einfachen Bewertung entziehen.

©2009 Piper Verlag GmbH, München (P)2015 Hörbuch Hamburg HHV GmbH, Hamburg

Mitglieder Bewertungen:

Great writer and teacher

Thought provoking and entertaining. Great writer and teacher.eye opening

Leichte Lektüre

Es sind recht gut geschriebene Kurzgeschichten. Das Buch liest sich leicht,... vielleicht etwas zu leicht...! Man könnte mehr Inhalt erwaten.

Sensationell!

Das Buch war sensationell. Es sind nicht einfach nur Kurzgeschichten! Schirach ist ein gewitzter, kluger und fantastischer Erzähler. Jede Geschichte für sich ist ein Ereignis! "Der Äthiopier" hat mich zu Tränen gerührt! Ein einzigartiges Buch! Es stimmt, es liest sich leicht (die andere review), aber das ist doch nichts schlechtes? Ich lese lieber leicht als schwer! ;-)

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Title: Numbers - Thinking with Them

Subtitle: What Are They?

Author: Deaver Brown

Narrator: Deaver Brown

Format: Unabridged

Length: 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-04-16

Publisher: Simply Media

Ratings: 1 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Economics

Publisher's Summary:

Numbers are a core way to think, as language is. This title describes how to use numbers effectively by thinking numerically, not just putting numbers in a bucket in an accounting sense. Core to thinking in modern times.

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Title: Money

Subtitle: What Is It?

Author: Deaver Brown

Narrator: Deaver Brown

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-04-16

Publisher: Simply Media

Genres: Nonfiction, Economics

Publisher's Summary:

Money: What Is It? deals with what money is and what the difference is between a monetary or money currency, a barter one, and a credit one. This is the place to start in economics per two experts, MIT professor Samuelson, author of Economics, and Professor Graziani, whose landmark work is the foundation for this title.

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Title: Paradox

Author: Margaret Cuonzo

Narrator: Jo Anna Perrin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-08-15

Publisher: Gildan Media, LLC

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy

Publisher's Summary:

Thinkers have been fascinated by paradox since long before Aristotle grappled with Zeno's. In this volume in The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Margaret Cuonzo explores paradoxes and the strategies used to solve them. She finds that paradoxes are more than mere puzzles but can prompt new ways of thinking. A paradox can be defined as a set of mutually inconsistent claims, each of which seems true. Paradoxes emerge not just in salons and ivory towers but in everyday life. (An Internet search for "paradox" brings forth a picture of an ashtray with a "no smoking" symbol inscribed on it.) Proposing solutions, Cuonzo writes, is a natural response to paradoxes. She invites us to rethink paradoxes by focusing on strategies for solving them, arguing that there is much to be learned from this, regardless of whether any of the more powerful paradoxes is even capable of solution.

Cuonzo offers a catalog of paradox-solving strategies - including the preemptive strike (questioning the paradox itself), the odd guy out (calling one of the assumptions into question), and the you can't get there from here (denying the validity of the reasoning). She argues that certain types of solutions work better in some contexts than others and that as paradoxicality increases, the success of certain strategies grows more unlikely. Cuonzo shows that the processes of paradox generation and solution proposal are interesting and important ones. Discovering a paradox leads to advances in knowledge: New science often stems from attempts to solve paradoxes, and the concepts used in the new sciences lead to new paradoxes. As Niels Bohr wrote, "How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress."

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Title: Intelligent Disobedience

Subtitle: Doing Right When What You're Told to Do Is Wrong

Author: Ira Chaleff

Narrator: Dave Clark

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-01-15

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 12 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy

Publisher's Summary:

Torture in Abu Ghraib prison. Corporate fraud. Falsified records at Veterans Administration hospitals. Teachers pressured to feed test answers to students. These scandals could have been prevented if, early on, people had said no to their higher-ups. In this timely new book, Ira Chaleff goes deeply into when and how to disobey inappropriate orders, reduce unacceptable risk, and find better ways to achieve legitimate goals.

The inspiration for the book and its title came from a concept used in guide-dog training. Guide dogs must be able to recognize a command that would put their human and themselves at risk, effectively resist the command, and identify safer options for achieving the goal. This is precisely what Chaleff shows humans how to do.

He delves into the psychological dynamics of obedience, drawing in particular on Stanley Milgram's seminal Yale experiments, in which volunteers were induced to administer shocks to innocent people, to teach us about how to reduce compliance with harmful orders. Using dozens of vivid examples of historical events and everyday situations, Chaleff offers advice on judging whether intelligent disobedience is called for, how to effectively express opposition, and how to create a culture where, rather than "just following orders", citizens are educated and encouraged to think about whether those orders make sense.

Members Reviews:

good primer for parents

Mr. Chaleff does a good job of laying out the dynamics of obedience and some helpful strategies to avoid doing something you know is wrong. I thought his tips would be particularly useful to parents, who need to teach their kids how to say no to people that may have malevolent intentions.

A good book even given its limitations

This is a rare book on this topic. That said, you need to be aware it is full of psychobabble garbage that attempts to make up for its political naivety by asserting its pseudo-scientific credentials. That doesn't make the lessons any less relevant but it does make the whole project seem rather dated - which it is in its communication even if it remains supremely relevant in practice.

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Title: Discourse on the Origin and the Foundations of Inequality Among Men

Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Narrator: Neville Jason

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-11-15

Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy

Publisher's Summary:

Rousseau's Discourse sets out to explore the origin of inequality among people, a journey that sees him trace the evolution of humans from the savage man to the foundations of civil society. With verve and passion, the philosopher argues that the birth of private property was the "beginning of evil". Throughout the book we are led to consider the development of language, reason, self-preservation, benevolence, pity, and law - all through the lens of perhaps the most original thinker of the 18th century.

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Members Reviews:

Rousseau's Logical progression based upon human justice and fairness

Rousseau delivers this discourse as a progression of logical thought: the development of society preceded the principles that were implemented to facilitate the governance of society. In Rousseau's discourse, the need to own land and to accord power and status to those who owned land, developed into organized society, with the values placed upon resources according to politics and status. The manufactured order of society stood in contrast to the natural desire of man to be free; therefore anything that society placed in the way of that freedom was against natural law. The inherent law that is inside man from birth clashes with the organized law on man; thus producing inequality, and injustice.

Rousseau's logic is almost poetic in its precision and accuracy.

This is beautifully written work of philosophical thought that will no doubt always remain as a classic among the great thinkers.

Great introduction and related documents to go along with Rousseau's main work

This version of Rousseau's classic work on the origin and foundations of inequality among men was required for my university history class on western civilization. I would recommend this version over any others you find only or in the library due to the amazingly well-written introduction by the book's editor and also by its inclusion of specific excerpts of related documents at the end of the book. The introduction is very helpful since it provides a thorough analysis of all of the main points in Rousseau's piece but also because it provides biographical information on Rousseau himself (and his peers/colleagues) as well.

Dry as a bone, but historically fascinating and relevant

I could almost copy my review of The Social Contract by the same author, as I also read this as part of research on a project covering the period between the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and it would be pretty spot on.

The fact that our nation was founded on the principals of equality and justice can be debated all day. The words written vs. the actions taken, etc., but Rousseau does a nice job of going deeper into natural, political, social, economic and intellectual inequalities that both exist and are created in an experiment such as the United States.

I enjoyed it for its historical context, but I can see why they never made the movie.

as well as an intelligent analysis of what doesn't work

It's a very well written translation of Rousseau of an interesting, concise philosophy for the reasons for social inequity. Some of the issues he raises are still current today, in a new context.

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Title: Jung In Love

Author: Lazaro Droznes

Narrator: Craig Randall Nickerson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 43 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-09-15

Publisher: GALT LLC

Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy

Publisher's Summary:

Carl Gustav Jung was a legendary womanizer. This dramatic fiction explores and illustrates the relationships C.G. Jung had with the four women most important to him: Emma Rauschenbach, his wife; Sabina Spielrein, his first patient and lover; Toni Wolff, patient, assistant, friend, and lover for 40 years; and finally, in his older years, with his student, Marie-Louise von Franz. Jung has made significant contributions to psychoanalysis, philosophy, sociology, and the comparative study of religion, and always needed the company of women to serve as his muses.

Members Reviews:

A wretched book that is filled with undocumented statements, assumptions, conclusions and innuendos.

The author states that Sabina Speilrein was Dr. Jung's lover and that Dr. Jung was a "legendary womanizer."

There is no documented evidence for either assertion.

For reader's interested in reading a book on both subjects that actually provides documented evidence may I kindly refer you to "Jung Stripped Bare-By His Biographers Even by Sonu Shamdasani.

Happily this book even in a Kindle format is selling poorly and the propagation of the urban legends presented in this book will hopefully die the ignominious death that it so richly deserves.

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Title: The Necessity of Atheism

Subtitle: The Complete Work Plus an Overview, Summary, Analysis and Author Biography

Author: Dr. M Brooks, Israel Bouseman

Narrator: Bron Wild

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-16-15

Publisher: AudioLearn

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy

Publisher's Summary:

The Necessity of Atheism is a critical review of organized religion from the perspective of a psychologist. The history of mankind is examined with consideration of the scientific evidence available at the time of its writing, and this history is compared with that of the biblical account. Furthermore the influence of religious beliefs on science and philosophy are investigated at length. This is a work that could have been published only in an era in which free thought was on the rise and contains many conclusions that are only now coming into acceptance in the modern era. It flies in the face of accepted doctrine and addresses the proper place of religious tradition in the modern world.

The full narration of the text is preceded by a summary that gives a brief biography of the author and background information for the work as well as an overview, a synopsis, and an analysis. Also included are an exploration of the criticisms, historical context, and social impact of the text.

This is a must-hear for those interested in religion from a historical or philosophical standpoint and for any interested in expanding their knowledge of religion and its impact on the human race.

Members Reviews:

Worst performance ever

Very interesting book given the period when it was written. Unfortunately the narrator is so bad that it ruins almost entirely the pleasure of listening to this audiobook. We suffer with her when she struggles with words in foreign languages - and there are many since the book deals biblical quotes and the works of philosophers from all over the world - and even english words with too many syllables. Each time she says "anthropomorphic", I thought her jaw was about to dislocate. And if it was not enough, the sound editing seems to have been entirely forgotten. Often times, she stumbles over a word and she repeats the sentence over and over until she gets it right. I even heard her say a frustrated "For goodness sake" after a mistake. Please, for her own good, don't hire that person again. And fire the sound editor too.

Not 13 hours, not even 4

A decent, insightful listen. However the book is actually far shorter than stated, as many parts are repeated.