Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche ~ Full Audiobook [philosophy]

Classic Audiobook Collection

04/04/23

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487m

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Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche audiobook.

Genre: philosophy

In Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche launches a provocative investigation into the hidden motives behind moral beliefs and the cultural assumptions people treat as timeless truths. Written as a series of sharp, energetic sections rather than a single linear argument, the book challenges readers to question ideas such as objective morality, absolute truth, and the comforting stories societies tell themselves about virtue and vice. Nietzsche targets the legacy of traditional European philosophy and religion, arguing that many 'higher' ideals can mask deeper drives: the will to interpret, to rank, to control, and to give life a meaning that favors certain types of people. Along the way he examines the psychology of philosophers, the social power of moral language, the tension between individual creativity and herd conformity, and the costs of intellectual honesty. With aphorisms that move from biting critique to visionary calls for new values, Nietzsche invites readers to look past familiar categories of good and evil and confront the unsettling possibility that moral systems are human creations, shaped by history, temperament, and struggle. The central conflict is the reader's own: whether to cling to inherited certainties or risk a harder freedom of thought.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:06:02) Chapter 01

(01:05:30) Chapter 02

(01:45:35) Chapter 03

(02:29:39) Chapter 04

(02:53:09) Chapter 05

(03:50:42) Chapter 06

(04:44:18) Chapter 07

(05:54:20) Chapter 08

(06:56:06) Chapter 09

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Edison, His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis Dyer ~ Full Audiobook [biography]

April 4, 2023

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1796m

Edison, His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis Dyer audiobook.

Genre: biography

A detailed biography of Thomas Alva Edison, inventor of such things as the telephone, the microphone, the electric motor, the storage battery, and the electric light. In the words of the authors, 'It is designed in these pages to bring the reader face to face with Edison; to glance at an interesting childhood and a youthful period marked by a capacity for doing things, and by an insatiable thirst for knowledge; then to accompany him into the great creative stretch of forty years, during which he has done so much. This book shows him plunged deeply into work for which he has always had an incredible capacity, reveals the exercise of his unsurpassed inventive ability, his keen reasoning powers, his tenacious memory, his fertility of resource; follows him through a series of innumerable experiments, conducted methodically, reaching out like rays of search-light into all the regions of science and nature, and finally exhibits him emerging triumphantly from countless difficulties bearing with him in new arts the fruits of victorious struggle.'

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:05:39) Chapter 2

(00:19:23) Chapter 3

(00:41:07) Chapter 4

(01:26:59) Chapter 5

(01:57:01) Chapter 6

(02:48:57) Chapter 7

(03:13:31) Chapter 8

(03:57:40) Chapter 9

(04:55:12) Chapter 10

(06:03:17) Chapter 11

(06:50:36) Chapter 12

(07:42:05) Chapter 13

(08:35:03) Chapter 14

(09:05:05) Chapter 15

(10:03:23) Chapter 16

(11:08:00) Chapter 17

(12:04:14) Chapter 18

(13:03:22) Chapter 19

(13:52:01) Chapter 20

(14:37:52) Chapter 21

(15:13:41) Chapter 22

(16:06:29) Chapter 23

(16:46:14) Chapter 24

(17:23:16) Chapter 25

(18:10:53) Chapter 26

(18:56:17) Chapter 27

(19:40:25) Chapter 28

(20:32:35) Chapter 29

(21:42:49) Chapter 30

(22:53:14) Chapter 31

(22:55:31) Chapter 32

(23:10:18) Chapter 33

(23:42:32) Chapter 34

(24:01:26) Chapter 35

(24:31:55) Chapter 36

(24:41:18) Chapter 37

(24:51:20) Chapter 38

(24:56:38) Chapter 39

(25:11:37) Chapter 40

(25:24:38) Chapter 41

(25:56:47) Chapter 42

(26:12:46) Chapter 43

(26:23:12) Chapter 44

(26:41:01) Chapter 45

(26:47:01) Chapter 46

(26:55:39) Chapter 47

(27:13:56) Chapter 48

(27:23:41) Chapter 49

(27:39:15) Chapter 50

(27:48:43) Chapter 51

(28:54:18) Chapter 52

(29:42:21) Chapter 53

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The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton ~ Full Audiobook [mystery]

April 4, 2023

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636m

The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton audiobook.

Genre: mystery

In The Innocence of Father Brown, G. K. Chesterton introduces an unlikely detective: Father Brown, a quiet Catholic priest with a shabby umbrella, a round face, and a disarming manner that makes criminals underestimate him. Moving through English villages, country houses, and city streets, Father Brown is repeatedly drawn into baffling crimes - stolen jewels, sudden disappearances, impossible murders, and deceptions staged with theatrical flair. While others chase evidence, reputation, or spectacle, he listens patiently, notices what vanity hides, and uses a deep understanding of human weakness to see through lies. Alongside him appears the elegant and notorious thief Flambeau, whose encounters with the priest become a tense contest of wits and conscience. Each case is a compact puzzle, but the stories also explore larger questions about pride, temptation, forgiveness, and the thin line between respectability and wrongdoing. Wry, philosophical, and richly atmospheric, this classic collection invites listeners into mysteries where the smallest detail - or the smallest act of mercy - can change everything.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:56:44) Chapter 2

(01:58:03) Chapter 3

(02:56:49) Chapter 4

(03:38:57) Chapter 5

(04:28:42) Chapter 6

(05:11:34) Chapter 7

(06:06:22) Chapter 8

(07:08:04) Chapter 9

(07:59:26) Chapter 10