Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift ~ Full Audiobook [adventure]

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07/12/22

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Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift audiobook.

Genre: adventure

Shipwrecked and cast far from home, Lemuel Gulliver - a practical English surgeon and sailor - begins a sequence of astonishing voyages that will test his assumptions about human nature, politics, and pride. He wakes to find himself a giant among the Lilliputians, a nation of miniature people whose petty rivalries and elaborate rules mirror the worst habits of the world he thought he knew. Later, he becomes the small one in a land of towering giants, where everyday life exposes the fragility of his own culture's values. Each new shore brings stranger customs, sharper dangers, and deeper questions, as Gulliver is pulled between curiosity and survival, diplomacy and outrage. Behind the marvels and misadventures lies a biting satire: courts obsessed with power, experts lost in useless projects, and societies that reveal how easily reason can be bent to vanity. As Gulliver struggles to remain loyal to his country and to his own sense of identity, the journeys push him toward uncomfortable self-knowledge. Clever, darkly funny, and endlessly inventive, Gulliver's Travels is both a fantastical adventure and a scathing look at what people choose to call civilization.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:12:39) Chapter 01

(00:37:37) Chapter 02

(01:00:05) Chapter 03

(01:18:15) Chapter 04

(01:30:04) Chapter 05

(01:44:23) Chapter 06

(02:06:12) Chapter 07

(02:23:57) Chapter 08

(02:37:59) Chapter 09

(03:06:59) Chapter 10

(03:20:18) Chapter 11

(03:44:03) Chapter 12

(03:56:44) Chapter 13

(04:20:02) Chapter 14

(04:41:48) Chapter 15

(04:59:21) Chapter 16

(05:31:10) Chapter 17

(05:46:03) Chapter 18

(06:07:30) Chapter 19

(06:21:14) Chapter 20

(06:36:16) Chapter 21

(06:54:06) Chapter 22

(07:08:14) Chapter 23

(07:18:25) Chapter 24

(07:32:33) Chapter 25

(07:41:54) Chapter 26

(08:01:38) Chapter 27

(08:10:12) Chapter 28

(08:27:41) Chapter 29

(08:42:47) Chapter 30

(08:57:09) Chapter 31

(09:10:30) Chapter 32

(09:25:59) Chapter 33

(09:43:09) Chapter 34

(10:02:04) Chapter 35

(10:17:16) Chapter 36

(10:30:31) Chapter 37

(10:48:52) Chapter 38

(11:09:17) Chapter 39

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A Letter Concerning Toleration by John Locke ~ Full Audiobook [philosophy]

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A Letter Concerning Toleration by John Locke audiobook.

Genre: philosophy

Letter Concerning Toleration by John Locke was originally published in 1689. Its initial publication was in Latin, though it was immediately translated into other languages. In this 'letter' addressed to an anonymous 'Honored Sir' (actually Locke's close friend Philip von Limborch, who published it without Locke's knowledge) Locke argues for a new understanding of the relationship between religion and government. One of the founders of Empiricism, Locke develops a philosophy that is contrary to the one expressed by Thomas Hobbes in Leviathan, primarily because it supports toleration for various Christian denominations. Locke's work appeared amidst a fear that Catholicism might be taking over England, and responds to the problem of religion and government by proposing toleration as the answer. Unlike Hobbes, who saw uniformity of religion as the key to a well-functioning civil society, Locke argues that more religious groups actually prevent civil unrest. Locke argues that civil unrest results from confrontations caused by any magistrate's attempt to prevent different religions from being practiced, rather than tolerating their proliferation. Locke's primary goal is to 'distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion.' He makes use of extensive argument from analogy to accomplish his goal, and relies on several key points. The thing that he wants to persuade the reader of is that government is instituted to promote external interests, relating to life, liberty, and the general welfare, while the church exists to promote internal interests, i.e., salvation. The two serve separate functions, and so, must be considered to be separate institutions.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(01:17:06) Chapter 2

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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad ~ Full Audiobook [adventure]

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257m

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad audiobook.

Genre: adventure

Set in a time of oppressive colonisation, when large areas of the world were still unknown to Europe, and Africa was literally on maps and minds as a mysterious shadow, Heart of Darkness famously explores the rituals of civilisation and barbarism, and the frighteningly fine line between them.

We get the tale through a classic unreliable narrator, relating as Marlow, a ship’s captain, tells how he was sent by the Company to retrieve the wayward Kurtz, and was shaken to discover the true depths of darkness in that creature’s, and in his own, soul. Conrad based the work closely on his own terrible experience in the Congo.

This work has been reinterpreted and adapted into many modern forms, the most well known being the film Apocalypse Now.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:44:17) Chapter 2

(01:31:58) Chapter 3

(02:08:56) Chapter 4

(02:51:38) Chapter 5

(03:22:04) Chapter 6

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