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Title: No Apologies

Subtitle: A Logical Approach to the Study of Apologetics, Giving Answers to Some of the Toughest Questions About Philosophy, Ethics, and Religion

Author: Kevin Cauley

Narrator: Tim Cote

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-30-13

Publisher: Hopkins Publishing, inc.

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 18 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy

Publisher's Summary:

In No Apologies Kevin Cauley provides the Lord's church with a useful resource in the field of Christian Evidences. Drawing from his rich experience in Apologetics, Cauley arranges the material in an accessible format and presents the case for Christian faith in a manner that is both thorough and understandable.

Members Reviews:

Some good points, some bad.

I thought a lot of the points this author brought up were poor. But then towards the end he made some very solid points that surprised me so.

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Titre: Hegel

Sous-titre: L'œuvre philosophique expliquée

Auteur: Luc Ferry

Narrateur: Luc Ferry

Format: Original Recording

Durée: 4 hrs and 37 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 11-07-13

Éditeur: Frémeaux & Associés

Evaluation: 5 sur 5 sur 5 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Philosophe majeur de l'idéalisme allemand, Hegel se propose de dépasser la contradiction, emblématique de son époque, entre la philosophie des Lumières, incarnée par Kant, et le Romantisme contre-révolutionnaire. Pour relever ce défi, il va construire l'un des systèmes les plus grandioses de l'histoire de la philosophie. Au fondement de cette œuvre immense, les réponses nouvelles qu'apporte l'auteur à deux questions léguées par la tradition. Celle de la "théodicée", que Leibniz avait formulée ainsi : "Si Dieu existe, d'où vient le mal ?". Et celle du scepticisme : Si la vérité est une, comment expliquer la pluralité des philosophies ?

Luc Ferry nous dévoile avec simplicité les clés d'une pensée complexe. Éloquent et pédagogue, il nous guide au cœur de ce que la philosophie allemande a de plus profond.

©2013 Frémeaux & Associés (P)2013 Frémeaux & Associés

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Title: Some Everyday Thoughts

Author: C. S. Lewis

Narrator: Ralph Cosham

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 7 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-25-13

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 11 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy

Publisher's Summary:

This volume of short essays and other pieces by C. S. Lewis is part of a larger collection, C. S.Lewis: Essay Collection and Other Short Pieces. In addition to his many books, letters, and poems, C. S. Lewis wrote a great number of essays and shorter pieces on various subjects. He wrote extensively on Christian theology and the defense of faith but also on ethical issues and the nature of literature and storytelling. This audiobook is a treasure trove of Lewis' reflections on diverse topics.

This volume includes:

1. The Necessity of Chivalry

2. The Inner Ring

3. Two Lectures

4. Some Thoughts

5. Xmas and Christmas

6. Revival or Decay?

7. Delinquents in the Snow

8. Willing Slaves of the Welfare State

9. Screwtape Proposes a Toast

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Titel: Folge dem weißen Kaninchen...in die Welt der Philosophie

Autor:: Philipp Hübl

Erzähler: Richard Barenberg

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 9 hrs and 56 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 10-02-13

Herausgeber: Argon Verlag

Kategorien: Nonfiction, Philosophy

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Philipp Hübl führt intelligent und unterhaltsam in die moderne Philosophie ein und gibt klare Antworten auf die großen Fragen des Lebens: Gibt es Gott? Kann man ohne Gefühle leben? Sind wir frei in unseren Entscheidungen? Haben Träume eine Funktion? Warum ist uns Schönheit so wichtig? Hat der Tod einen Sinn? Wer dem weißen Kaninchen folgt, sieht das Wunderland der Wirklichkeit mit neuen Augen. Es ist eine Jagd mit reicher Beute, hin und her, querweltein, durchs ganze Leben und zurück.

©2012 Rowohlt Verlag GmbH, Reinbek bei Hamburg (P)2013 Argon Verlag GmbH, Berlin

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Title: Grammars of Creation

Author: George Steiner

Narrator: Robert Blumenfeld

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-17-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy

Publisher's Summary:

"We have no more beginnings," George Steiner begins in this, his most radical book to date. A far-reaching exploration of the idea of creation in Western thought, literature, religion, and history, this volume can fairly be called a magnum opus. He reflects on the different ways we have of talking about beginnings, on the "core-tiredness" that pervades our end-of-the-millennium spirit, and on the changing grammar of our discussions about the end of Western art and culture. With his well-known elegance of style and intellectual range, Steiner probes deeply into the driving forces of the human spirit and our perception of Western civilization's lengthening afternoon shadows.

Roaming across topics as diverse as the Hebrew Bible, the history of science and mathematics, the ontology of Heidegger, and the poetry of Paul Celan, Steiner examines how the twentieth century has placed in doubt the rationale and credibility of a future tense - the existence of hope. Acknowledging that technology and science may have replaced art and literature as the driving forces in our culture, Steiner warns that this has not happened without a significant loss.

The forces of technology and science alone fail to illuminate inevitable human questions regarding value, faith, and meaning. And yet it is difficult to believe that the story out of Genesis has ended, Steiner observes, and he concludes this masterful volume of reflections with an eloquent evocation of the endlessness of beginnings.

Members Reviews:

Superb

This book answered questions I have been asking for years. I rate it as one of the top five books I have ever

purchased.

Five Stars

Wonderful, thanks a lot!

Four Stars

Perfect condition

Stunning, But Very Densely Argued

Steinerâs putative subject here is the difference between âinventionâ and âcreationâ. The former is more often associated with technology and applied science, while the latter enjoys a position of primacy, particularly among some of the romantics. This is all complicated by the fact that, as the old statement goes, there has been only one creator. Humans do not create ex nihilo and they come to a creative occasion already immersed in an ocean of history, tradition, convention andâfor literary artistsâthe constraints of language. Nevertheless, their creative undertakings were, traditionally, underwritten by a belief in an ordered cosmos created by an all-powerful deity. How are we to think about âcreativityâ in an age of agnosticism or atheism? Thus, Steiner is reinforcing some of the central points of his book Real Presences; at the same time he is widening the discussion tremendously.

As always, he operates in Latin, Greek, French, German, English and Italian, sometimes translating, sometimes not. He is doing âcomparative literatureâ as it was originally designed (and has since been abandoned, since virtually no one is now capable of doing it). He returns to pivotal figures (Dante, Heidegger, Paul Celan) but still ranges widely over the history of science, the history of philosophy and the history of world literature.

The book is divided into unnamed sections. There are breaks and links within the argument, but no discrete chapters per se. This enables him to expand his argument in multiple directions and circle back to common themes, but one must read very slowly and carefully to follow him.

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Titre: Henri Bergson

Auteur: Frédéric Worms

Narrateur: Frédéric Worms

Format: Original Recording

Durée: 4 hrs and 44 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 08-21-13

Éditeur: Frémeaux & Associés

Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Bergson, souvent étudié par bribes, connu pour son traité sur le rire ou quelques-unes de ses métaphores, mérite d'être compris, découvert ou redécouvert dans toute son ampleur. Derrière son approche concrète, à la fois psychologique, sociologique et morale, on trouve une philosophie de la vie qui s'exprime avec ses contraintes et ses besoins, mais aussi dans sa profondeur individuelle et temporelle.

Les grands concepts de la philosophie bergsonienne comme la durée, l'élan vital, la mystique, la morale et la religion se trouvent expliqués avec simplicité par Frédéric Worms dans cet exposé tout en finesse.

Ce livre audio contient les cours suivants :

L'intervenant

est né le 30 janvier 1964. Ancien élève de l'ENS et agrégé de philosophie, il est actuellement professeur de philosophie moderne et contemporaine à l'Université Charles-de-Gaulle Lille III et Directeur du Centre international d'Etude de la Philosophie française contemporaine (CIEPFC) à l'Ecole normale supérieure (Paris). Il est également président de la Société des amis de Bergson, et directeur aux Presses Universitaires de France de deux collections: "Philosophie française contemporaine" et "Questions de soin", ainsi que de la première édition critique des

de Bergson (14 volumes parus entre 2007 et 2011, une dizaine de collaborateurs), et de la rédaction des

(PUF, coll. "Epiméthée", cinq volumes parus, comité scientifique international).

©2013 Frémeaux & Associes en accord avec les PUF (P)2013 Claude Colombini avec le concours de Paul Garapon

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Titre: Contre-histoire de la philosophie 20.1 : Camus, Sartre, De Beauvoir

Auteur: Michel Onfray

Narrateur: Michel Onfray

Format: Original Recording

Durée: 5 hrs and 37 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 08-21-13

Éditeur: Frémeaux & Associés

Evaluation: 5 sur 5 sur 1 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Camus, Sartre, De Beauvoir.

"L'écriture de l'histoire de la philosophie occidentale n'est pas neutre : une Grèce prétendument fondatrice à l'exclusion des pensées qui la précèdent dans le temps, une domination idéaliste, notamment platonicienne, une tradition qui poursuit ce parti-pris avec le spiritualisme chrétien et l'idéal allemand - l'historiographie dominante est nettement platonicienne. Or, on peut proposer une contre-histoire de la philosophie qui se soucie d'un autre lignage : matérialiste, hédoniste, nominaliste, athée, sensualiste, empirique, etc. Et s'y inscrire avec le souci d'une pensée systématique."

Michel Onfray

La Contre-histoire de la Philosophie de Michel Onfray s'apparente à un catalogue raisonné de l'histoire de la pensée. Mais un catalogue dans sa version orale et improvisée qui permet par la verve et l'authenticité d'une transmission incarnée de démocratiser le savoir de la Philosophie occidentale.

L'intervenant

, philosophe et écrivain français, né à Argentan le premier janvier 1959, commença par enseigner la philosophie à une classe de terminale du lycée technique de Caen. En 2002, il démissionna de l'Education Nationale afin de créer l'Université Populaire de Caen. Il y enseigne depuis la "contre-histoire de la philosophie" ici présentée. Michel Onfray souhaite formuler une théorie de l'hédonisme au travers de ses ouvrages, et se propose de réconcilier l'homme et son corps. Pour lui, la philosophie est un art de vivre qui permet à l'homme de se débarrasser de ses illusions.

©2013 Michel Onfray / Groupe Frémeaux Colombini (P)2012 / 2013 Radio France / Frémeaux & Associés / Grasset / Université populaire de Caen

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Title: The Quest for Certainty

Author: John Dewey

Narrator: Fred Filbrich

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-13-13

Publisher: University Press Audiobooks

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy

Publisher's Summary:

This volume provides an authoritative edition of Dewey's The Quest for Certainty: A Study of the Relation Between Knowledge and Action. The book is made up of the Gifford Lectures delivered April and May, 1929 at the University of Edinburgh. Writing to Sidney Hook, Dewey described this work as "a criticism of philosophy as attempting to attain theoretical certainty."

In the Philosophical Review, Max C. Otto later elaborated: "Mr. Dewey wanted, so far as lay in his power, to crumble into dust, once and for all, the chief fortress of the classic philosophical tradition."

The book is published by Southern Illinois University Press.

Members Reviews:

Dewey is the man!!!!

John Dewey is one of the greatest minds in human natural history. Q for C is one the most intelligent and inclusive examinations knowledge and action available. It is must read for any budding philosophers, or anyone seeking pragmatic truth.

Other recommendations:

"Experience and Nature"

"Art as Experience"

"A Common Faith" ****

"The Varieties of Religious Experience"

William James.

What is Dewey saying, really?

Our true Quest for Certainty should begin with Dewey's own writing. I don't know how he manages to maintain such excellent prose and yet say so little. I think of Dewey as a leader of a certain type of thought, namely, that which must be experienced in order to be known.

Dewey's followers may take this tack farther than Dewey intended it to go. What can be experienced is known only by experience, yet the act of thinking about an experience is itself an experience, so that experience is never made more remote, nor is it compassed about, even though Dewey seems to think so. In order to suppose that certainty can be acquired only by and through experience, we have to consider all aspects of experience, not just the particular experience(s) in question.

Dewey takes no account of the intrinsically diadic relationship between an observing subject, and observed (that which is,) as to recognize that experience is diadic and not monadic would throw into question the integrity of his entire system. Should Dewey concede that logically, experience must be at least at base, a diad of entities locked in experience with each other, he would come dangerously close to admitting something outside experience as more basic and fundamental than experience itself.

Nevertheless, it's important to read Dewey (and any other philosopher, for that matter) with a critical eye and a trained nose. Good luck.

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Title: Descartes

Subtitle: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Tom Sorell

Narrator: Barbara Edelman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-26-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 14 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy

Publisher's Summary:

René Descartes (1596-1650) had a remarkably short working life, and his output was small, yet his contributions to philosophy and science have endured to the present day. He is perhaps best known for his statement "Cogito, ergo sum". By a mixture of "intuition" and "deduction" Descartes derived from the "cogito" principle first the existence of a material world.

But Descartes did not intend the metaphysics to stand apart from his scientific work, which included important investigations into physics, mathematics, psychology, and optics. In this book Tom Sorrell shows that Descartes was, above all, an advocate and practitioner of a new mathematical approach to physics, and that he developed his metaphysics to support his program in the sciences.

Members Reviews:

The sometimes clear & mostly indubitable Descartes

"I realize that I am, as it were, something intermediate between God and nothingness..."

-- Descartes, Fourth Meditation

Tom Sorrell's Very Short Introduction (VSI #30) to Descartes is my third selection of Oxford's Very Short Introduction series. So far, I've tried reading these books almost at random. Almost. I've wanted to try out different forms from big topics (History: A Very Short Introduction) to more specific, sub-field topics (Game Theory: A Very Short Introduction) that I'm moderately well-versed in, to religious (The Book of Mormon: A Very Short Introduction) and now biography. I'm about ready to start jumping into multiple areas and areas I'm not as familiar with. I've got the form down I think, now I get to start exploring.

The benefit of this book was that it took me from the basics of what I knew about Descartes (Cartesian thinking, Cogito ergo sum, etc) and added things I was familiar with, but never really focused on (his experiments, physics and maths). Sorell didn't write hagiography here. He placed Descartes in securely in time and space, and really limited his own personal impressions as much as he could. When Sorell did comment on Descartes it was typically to put into perspective both how his ideas held up in their time and the influence of those ideas today.

It wasn't a fantastic read, but it was still worth the time and money. It set the table and gave me several resources for future primary reads of Descartes.

Good summary; Overly dramatic narration

Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

I would only recommend this book to you if you are determined to learn a lot about Descartes. The text itself is okay, but the reader's performance aggressively distracts from the author's train of thought. It's hard to listen to this audiobook.

How did the narrator detract from the book?

The narrator attempts to inject strong emotions into practically every sentence, and it distracts from the text. I don't get the impression that the narrator was actually following Sorrell's train of thought.

Even worse, every time the text quotes Descartes verbatim, the narrator adopts a comically stiff and somewhat aggressive tone of voice, as if the performer were imitating a boastful eight-year-old boy. This switch in tone is so jarring that I never actually hear Descartes' words, I only hear the narrator's raspy voice and wonder what on earth is the point of such a performance.

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Title: Hegel: Philosophy in an Hour

Author: Paul Strathern

Narrator: Jonathan Keeble

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-25-13

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy

Publisher's Summary:

Philosophy for busy people. Listen to a succinct account of the philosophy of Hegel in just one hour.

With Hegel philosophy became very difficult indeed even the great man himself conceded that only one man understands me, and even he does not. His dialectical method produced the most grandiose metaphysical system known to humanity, and included absolutely everything, its most vital element being the dialectic of the thesis, antithesis and synthesis. This method arose from Hegels ambition to overcome the deficiencies of logic and ascend towards Mind as the ultimate reality. His view of history as a process of humanitys self-realisation ultimately inspired Marx to synthesise his philosophy of dialectical materialism.

This audiobook is an expert account of Hegels life and philosophical ideas entertainingly written and is easy to listen to. Also included are selections from Hegels work, suggested further reading, and chronologies that place Hegel in the context of the broader scheme of philosophy.

Critic Reviews:

Well-written, clear and informed, they have a breezy wit about them . . .I find them hard to stop reading. (New York Times)

Witty, illuminating, and blessedly concise (Wall Street Journal)

Each of these little books is witty and dramatic and creates a sense of time, place, and character . . . I cannot think of a better way to introduce oneself and one's friends to Western civilization. (Boston Globe)

A godsend in this era of the short attention span. (New York Times)

Members Reviews:

For Beginners Only

This book delivers on its promise since it can easily be read in an hour.

It also gives a decent picture of Hegel the man, along with the rudiments of Hegel's thought.

Unfortunately, it goes off the rails by ridiculing Hegel's (admittedly) difficult prose style.

Whatever one thinks of Hegel's philosophy, he was hugely influential on 19th- and 20th-Century

thought and politics. His theory of dialectics (crudely summarized by the phrase "Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis")

and his views on history can be found at work in fields as diverse as biblical criticism and Soviet Marxism.

So, read this book to get your bearings, then read a more detailed and respectful treatment. This reviewer

recommends Frederic Copleston as a trustworthy guide through the history of philosophy.

I have degrees in philosophy and did my Senior Thesis ...

I have degrees in philosophy and did my Senior Thesis on Hegel. This is not an accurate coverage of his philosophy and does not reflect Hegel's depth. Even given the short treatment format, it is misleading in many ways.

Author doesn't seem to like Hagel

It's an interesting read because the author seems to think Hagel is a terrible blovator. You learn what a scholar of philosophy dislikes in Hagel but Hagel's substance ( unless there is very little ) one only gets a sense of

This short book is an excellent biography of Hegel but felt it fails to do ...

This short book is an excellent biography of Hegel but felt it fails to do justice his ideas. I felt it doesn't capture Hegel's ideas about history that well.