Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers, credited to Charles Bradlaugh, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers by Charles Bradlaugh. Read in English by Ted Delorme. This book presents a brief bio and a summary of important ideas & events in the lives of 23 great philosophers from ancient times through the 19th century. The book focuses on freethinkers, who are known to say things which upset those in power, Several of these men paid for their beliefs with their lives; many others were persecuted and imprisoned for saying what they believed. (Summary by Ted Delorme).

Recording facts

• Recording title: Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers
• Author credits: Charles Bradlaugh
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 24
• Listed recording duration: 13:34:17

Catalogue topics

• Spinoza
• Voltaire
• Paine
• freethought
• freethinkers
• Epicurus
• Hobbes
• Atheism

Track guide

1. 00 - Editor's Preface — 3:05
2. 01 - Thomas Hobbes — 36:34
3. 02 - Lord Bolingbroke — 32:57
4. 03 - Condorcet — 33:30
5. 04 - Spinoza — 35:37
6. 05 - Anthony Collins — 33:38
7. 06 - Descartes — 30:30
8. 07 - Voltaire — 35:40
9. 08 - John Toland — 34:34
10. 09 - Compte De Volney — 39:22
11. 10 - Charles Blount — 40:45
12. 11 - Percy Bysshe Shelley — 28:50
13. 12 - Claud Arian Helvetius — 39:38
14. 13 - Frances W. D'Arusmont — 38:16
15. 14 - Epicurus — 38:34
16. 15 - Zeno the Stoic — 38:57
17. 16 - Matthew Tindal — 37:34
18. 17 - David Hume — 37:53
19. 18 - Dr. Thomas Burnet — 37:17
20. 19 - Thomas Paine — 34:43
21. 20 - Baptiste De Mirabaud — 5:04
22. 21 - Baron D'Holbach — 34:22
23. 22 - Robert Taylor — 40:20
24. 23 - Joseph Barker — 46:37

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