Reflections on War and Death by Sigmund Freud ~ Full Audiobook [philosophy]

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10/21/22

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Reflections on War and Death by Sigmund Freud audiobook.

Genre: philosophy

Anyone, as Freud tells us in Reflections on War and Death, forced to react against his own impulses may be described as a hypocrite, whether he is conscious of it or not. One might even venture to assert—it is still Freud's argument—that our contemporary civilisation favours this sort of hypocrisy and that there are more civilised hypocrites than truly cultured persons, and it is even a question whether a certain amount of hypocrisy is not indispensable to maintain civilisation. When this travesty of civilisation, this infallible state that has regimented and dragooned its citizens into obedience, goes to war, Freud is pained but not surprised that it makes free use of every injustice, of every act of violence that would dishonour the individual, that it employs not only permissible cunning but conscious lies and intentional deception against the enemy, that it absolves itself from guarantees and treaties by which it was bound to other states and makes unabashed confession of its greed and aspiration to power. For conscience, the idea of right and wrong, in the Freudian sense, is not the inexorable judge that teachers of ethics say it is: it has its origin in nothing but 'social fear,' and whereas in times of peace the state forbids the individual to do wrong, not because it wishes to do away with wrongdoing but because it wishes to monopolise it, like salt or tobacco, it suspends its reproach in times of war. The suppression of evil desires also ceases, and men, finding the moral ties loosened between large human units, commit acts of cruelty, treachery, deception and brutality the very possibility of which would have been considered incompatible with their degree of culture.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:40:52) Chapter 02

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This Crowded Earth by Robert Bloch ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]

October 21, 2022

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222m

This Crowded Earth by Robert Bloch audiobook.

Genre: scifi

Robert Bloch (1917 – 1994) was a prolific writer in many genres. As a young man he was encouraged by his mentor H. P. Lovecraft, and was a close friend of Stanley G. Weinbaum. Besides hundreds of short stories and novels he wrote a number of television and film scripts including several for the original Star Trek. In 1959 Bloch wrote the novel Psycho which Alfred Hitchcock adapted to film a year later. He received the Hugo Award, the World Fantasy Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and he is a past president of the Mystery Writers of America. Published in Amazing Stories in 1958, This Crowded Earth is a thriller set on an overpopulated Earth of the future.

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(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:29:26) Chapter 02

(01:09:47) Chapter 03

(01:17:04) Chapter 04

(01:23:39) Chapter 05

(01:31:43) Chapter 06

(02:00:10) Chapter 07

(02:11:06) Chapter 08

(02:32:48) Chapter 09

(02:49:36) Chapter 10

(03:05:31) Chapter 11

(03:11:23) Chapter 12

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Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott ~ Full Audiobook [history]

October 24, 2022

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1176m

Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott audiobook.

Genre: history

In medieval England, the long-absent King Richard is rumored to be returning, but the country is tense with rival loyalties, private vendettas, and the lingering divide between Norman rulers and Saxon subjects. Wilfred of Ivanhoe, a disinherited Saxon knight, comes home from crusade determined to restore his honor and win the hand of the high-born Lady Rowena, even as his estranged father Cedric pursues a different future for their people. When a grand tournament draws nobles, outlaws, and opportunists into the open, Ivanhoe is pulled into a web of feuds and kidnappings that tests his courage and his code of chivalry. Alongside him stand unlikely allies: the enigmatic pilgrim who seems to know more than he should, the bold yeoman Locksley and his forest band, and Rebecca, a brilliant healer whose compassion places her in grave danger in a world ruled by prejudice and power. With clashes of swords and clashes of conscience, Ivanhoe explores loyalty, justice, faith, and the price of belonging.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:24:54) Chapter 02

(00:58:12) Chapter 03

(01:19:06) Chapter 04

(01:40:17) Chapter 05

(02:04:33) Chapter 06

(02:40:21) Chapter 07

(03:13:42) Chapter 08

(03:44:05) Chapter 09

(04:08:26) Chapter 10

(04:35:11) Chapter 11

(04:54:45) Chapter 12

(05:25:55) Chapter 13

(05:49:40) Chapter 14

(06:13:48) Chapter 15

(06:28:07) Chapter 16

(06:59:03) Chapter 17

(07:12:14) Chapter 18

(07:34:18) Chapter 19

(07:53:38) Chapter 20

(08:10:46) Chapter 21

(08:32:38) Chapter 22

(08:57:21) Chapter 23

(09:18:21) Chapter 24

(09:49:18) Chapter 25

(10:12:20) Chapter 26

(10:31:47) Chapter 27

(11:19:09) Chapter 28

(11:52:44) Chapter 29

(12:20:54) Chapter 30

(12:46:47) Chapter 31

(13:23:17) Chapter 32

(13:54:19) Chapter 33

(14:23:07) Chapter 34

(14:42:13) Chapter 35

(15:14:10) Chapter 36

(15:35:53) Chapter 37

(16:11:48) Chapter 38

(16:33:26) Chapter 39

(17:04:26) Chapter 40

(17:45:04) Chapter 41

(18:05:35) Chapter 42

(18:35:15) Chapter 43

(19:01:49) Chapter 44

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