New Loyalbooks Philosophy Podcasts

Euthyphro by Plato

1 episode - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 6 ratings
Awaiting his trial on charges of impiety and heresy, Socrates encounters Euthyphro, a self-proclaimed authority on matters of piety and the will of the gods. Socrates, desiring instruction in these...

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

2 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Civil Disobedience (Resistance to Civil Government) is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849. In it, Thoreau argues that individuals should not...

Ion by Plato

2 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
In Plato’s Ion, Socrates questions Ion on whether he should really claim laud and glory for his ‘rhapsodic’ recitals of Homer’s poetry.

Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 7 ratings
“Nature” is a short essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson published anonymously in 1836. It is in this essay that the foundation of transcendentalism is put forth, a belief system that espouses a non-tradit...

On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Published in 1859, On Liberty is a libertarian philosophical work by English philosopher John Stuart Mill that endorses his view on the importance of individuality for the constant progression and ...

Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy by George Santayana

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
Before the beginning of World War II, during the time of the Modernist movement in philosophy, George Santayana wrote these five descriptive essays. He examined John Locke’s sensationalism, British...

The Tao Teh King, or the Tao and its Characteristics by Laozi

9 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 3 ratings
Written in classical Chinese some time during the sixth century BC, The Tao Teh King or The Tao and its Characteristics is a classical Chinese text that is one of the important keystones in unders...

As a Man Thinketh by James Allen

8 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 46 ratings
“A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts,” is one of the quotes from James Allen's classic self help books, As a Man Thinketh. Published in 1902,...

Short Nonfiction Collection by Various

10 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
A collection of ten short essays or other short nonfiction works in the public domain.

Utopia by Sir Thomas More

12 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
He was a trusted aide of Henry VIII, but when he supposedly opposed the monarch's second marriage, he was thrown into prison and executed for treason. More than two hundred years later, he was cano...

Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes

9 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
The foundations of modern skepticism and objective thinking are thought to be rooted in the philosophy of Rene Descartes, the French mathematician, philosopher and writer. This great sixteenth cent...

All of Grace by Charles H. Spurgeon

11 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 10 ratings
HE WHO SPOKE and wrote this message will be greatly disappointed if it does not lead many to the Lord Jesus. It is sent forth in childlike dependence upon the power of God the Holy Ghost, to use it...

Ancient Greek Philosopher-Scientists by Varous

10 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
The Pre-Socratic Greek philosophers, that is, the philosopher-scientists who lived before or contemporaneously to Socrates, were the first men in the Western world to establish a line of inquiry re...

Above Life's Turmoil by James Allen

10 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Combining elements of Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism with concepts dealing with self discipline, motivation and the power of positive thinking, James Allen's 1910 inspirational book Above Life...

Poetics by Aristotle

11 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Aristotle’s Poetics from the 4th century B.C. aims to give a short study of storytelling. It discusses things like unity of plot, reversal of situation, and character in the context of Greek trage...

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by David Hume

13 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★ - 2 ratings
In Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, philosopher David Hume examines whether belief in God can be rational. The work takes the form of a debate between three characters: Cleanthes, who argues ...

Essays, First Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson

12 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
“I do not wish to treat friendships daintily but with roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass beads or frost-work but the solidest thing we know....” is how Ralph Waldo Emerson saw...

On Loving God by Bernard of Clairvaux

15 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
On Loving God is one of the best-known and most influential works of Medieval Christian mysticism. Written at the request of one of the cardinals of Rome, it describes the four “levels” of love for...

The Twilight of the Idols or How to Philosophise with the Hammer by Friedrich Nietzsche

14 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Of The Twilight of the Idols, Nietzsche says in Ecce Homo: “If anyone should desire to obtain a rapid sketch of how everything before my time was standing on its head, he should begin reading me in...

The Truth About Jesus. Is He a Myth? by M. M. Mangasarian

18 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
The following work offers in book form the series of studies on the question of the historicity of Jesus, presented from time to time before the Independent Religious Society in Orchestra Hall, Chi...

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

15 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 60 ratings
Marcus Aurelius was a Roman Emperor and philosopher who wrote Meditations; insights which were considered to give the meaning of life. The book was not written with the intent to be published. It...

Bhagavad Gita by Sir Edwin Arnold (Translator)

19 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 6 ratings
One of the world’s most valued scriptures, the Bhagavad Gita is a Hindu scripture which is a part of the Indian epic Mahabharata. Undeniably, it is also one of the most important texts in the histo...

Heretics by G. K. Chesterton

21 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 4 ratings
The Author Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in London, England on the 29th of May, 1874. Though he considered himself a mere “rollicking journalist,” he was actually a prolific and gifted writer i...

Bushido: The Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe

18 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 4 ratings
Bushido: The Soul of Japan written by Inazo Nitobe was one of the first books on samurai ethics that was originally written in English for a Western audience, and has been subsequently translated i...

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

19 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★ - 1 rating
The Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is a shortened and simplified version of Hume’s masterpiece A Treatise of Human Nature. It sought to reach a wider audience, and to dispel some of the vi...

Universal Declaration of Human Rights by United Nations

24 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 3 ratings
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was ratified in 1948 by the United Nations General Assembly. It defines the fundamental rights of individuals, and exhorts all governments to protect thes...

Politics by Aristotle

30 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
The Politics, by the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, is one of the most influential texts in political philosophy. In it, Aristotle explores the role that the political community should play i...

Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil by Thomas Hobbes

32 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Books 1 and 2. Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil is a book written in 1651 by Thomas Hobbes. The book concerns the structure of society (as rep...

Plato's Republic by Plato

41 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 17 ratings
Plato's Republic is a Socratic dialogue which deals mainly with the definition of justice, the characteristics of a just city state and the just man. Although it was written more than two thousand ...

Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Nietzsche

81 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844–1900) was a nineteenth-century German philosopher. He wrote critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy and science, using a distinctive...