P8/19 Philosophy Audiobook

René Descartes was born in La Haye, Touraine, France, in 1596. The son of a minor nobleman, he was educated at the Jesuit school of La Flèche in Anjou, and then at the University of Poitiers, where he studied law.

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Classic App Audiobooks make available the written works of the best known philosophers in audiobook format, allowing people to acquaint themselves with the conclusions drawn by important philosophical figures over the course of history, in the face of life's most perplexing mysteries.

Each audiobook offers the listener the opportunity of comprehending and understanding the contributions of some of the most significant thinkers in the realm of philosophy.

In each of thirty presentations, Classic App Audiobooks presents an account of the life, work and thoughts of the particular philosopher in focus.

The full series covers the following philosophers:

Aquinas, Aristotle, Augustine, Bacon, Bergson, Berkeley, Descartes, Dewey, Fichte, Hegel, Heidegger, Hobbes, Hume, Husserl, James, Kant, Kierkegaard, Leibniz, Locke, Mill, Nietzsche, Peirce, Plato, Russell, Santayana, Sartre, Schopenhauer, Socrates, Spinoza, Wittgenstein.