' The scenes of our past are always beautiful if we don't have to live in them again.'

@davekiss2412

3 жыл бұрын

Yes

00:00:01 - I. THE RISE AND FALL OF THE MEDES 00:05:22 - II. THE GREAT KINGS 00:13:44 - III. PERSIAN LIFE AND INDUSTRY 00:21:56 - IV. AN EXPERIMENT IN GOVERNMENT 00:35:18 - V. ZARATHUSTRA

Legend.

This is so great! Some of the information was inaccurate though, like the time of IndoEuropean migration (today we know it was before 2000 b.c) Very interesting how archeology and history has evolved since Will Durant.

@ezabjacorn6208

3 жыл бұрын

Hahaha

@Amadeu.Macedo

3 ай бұрын

Indeed, while I adore Duran's historical productions, his ancient history pieces contain a few (dated) errors, since they were compiled around 1932 (some of them revised in the early 1960s), before a great deal of revisions/updates have been conducted.

Well Done Rocky C

Will durant had such a great style.

@mdq8198

2 жыл бұрын

that's being half french !

56:20

🙏❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🙏

I just found will Durant

Raising I Qs

Buddha & Buddhism was in "Our Oriental Heritage" somewhere...that would be a good single video by itself since mindfulness meditation and Eastern philosophy is becoming mainstream in our ego filled world of suffering ...found the teachings interesting and useful in my life for dealing with stressful thoughts/events...did Will Durant ever say anything about "Tao Te Ching" by Lao Tzu? Wish that Gardner would narrate "On the Meaning of Life" a "hidden" Durant gem.

@ChristianelHermano

4 жыл бұрын

Martin Jimenez Lao Tsu is discussed in Rocky’s video on China. Will Durant spends more time on Confucius, but admirably gives a few aphorisms from the Tao to show how a wise man is similarly described by both Lao Tsu and Confucius. Of course, the meeting between young Confucius and the aged sage is worth the click by itself.

@arno9233

Жыл бұрын

Why do u think our egocentric world causes suffering? To what extend do you accredit it to people not prioritizing on altruism, since it can sometimes be the oppositie of egoism, so in other words people not taking care for each other?

A warrior for Ahura Mazda

calm down...he's a historian. He's not able to fix ignorance without the will of a damn normal human who wants to know "things". I agree, a very intelligent man. However, I wonder how it is everyone is so yay about information they could read themselves by looking into historical books. No disrespect but please understand to recall how we learn even more new things about the old ways ...over time, as things are known to miraculously be understood differently from new evidence. Remember Columbus? Just one example of this. I say this because not only "the yays" for a man who knew much about things, but because we heard how old this was by the sound of the recording. I hope perception is still a "thing" people yay to learn about. As always, I appreciate people uploading Durant recordings. I even appreciate it more when I can hear it.

The Story of Civilzation: Book I - Our Oriental Heritage. The Near East: Persia pg.350-End of Book I. Book II: India Pages 113 - 388 The Near East: Sumeria pg.116, Egypt pg.137, Babylonia pg.218, Assyria pg.265, Judea pg.299, Persia pg.350.

I spent many hundreds of hours reading Will and Arial Durant in my youth and then for the last couple days. Sadly, it doesn’t age well. There are errors here (on history of cosmetics ), serious omissions on pre-Mead Persia, pre-genetic labeling of peoples and over dependence on Greek sources. Sadly his Voltaire which is well written no longer soars because it is so weighted with inaccuracies (eg on his Newton book). We grow beyond our teachers, and I hope you do too. The Durant stage was nice, but his generalizations, inaccuracies, and lack of contemporary historical rigor and incorporation of 50 years of discoveries make the pair unreadable.

@andrealfarrow6726

10 ай бұрын

You are awesome. Thanks for telling others the facts here. I hope you continue to correct what you understand for the general public about these outdated materials on here so they can understand.

@andrealfarrow6726

10 ай бұрын

👏👏👏

@Gracchi

7 ай бұрын

Please teach us 1% of your great knowledge and wisdom, o great sage.

@JJ-fr2ki

7 ай бұрын

@@Gracchi That’s not nice. Just read contemporary history or talk to any academic historian. History has gotten better. Methods in genetics, archeology, scholarship connecting Persian and Greek intellectual history (a hot topic requiring multilingual researchers with access to Iran, and post-colonial sensibilities just didn’t exist in the pre-1980s), dating methods, and most importantly digital scholarship methods allowed by OCR and generous uploadings by libraries, heavily used now, cummatively generate an accelerating improvement in scholarship. Compare recent work on Rome with Gibbon. I love Gibbon’s prose. He was super-human, but wrong about lots! My remarks are not meant to denigrate the Durants, , or say Gibbon (or Newton or Magic Johnson), instead all their enterprises have progressed and are better now. If we survive as a species expect more progress and enjoy it.

@JJ-fr2ki

7 ай бұрын

@@GracchiI’m not accusing Gibbon or the Durants of fruad, just pointing you, assuming you are interested in well evidenced works and truth, to look at contemporary scholarship over the last 20 years-so not fads, actual discoveries and corrections. Almost the same goes for Winston Churchill’s histories which are great reading, except he can be accused of a racist, imperial bias-entertaining but inaccurate and probably for most a waste of time. I also don’t want you to feel I’m attacking the West. I am not. From the West, we get Kant’s essay defining the cosmopolitan. Self-esteem should come from personal accomplishment not geographic historical identity and absolutely not from inaccurate narratives. Don’t be afraid of a history that’s cleverer about evidence, more careful about causal claims, uses digital methods, and free from Occidental biases. These are all achievements that bring us closer to understanding history, which is not dead, not even past (Faulkner), but like a baseball carrying the momentum from the batter, we are a globe in flight and history, like momentum is a property inextricable from the matter.

Very muffled.

@mdq8198

2 жыл бұрын

People talked like that at the time

@markletts8802

2 жыл бұрын

🤔😂

The bird on the right in the pic seems upset he has no feet

Hard to listen to

old librivox reader(?)his mispronunciations are notorious, unhesitating and uncorrected

@TheRealInscrutable

Жыл бұрын

Nope this is merged from a series of audio books you had to buy - not librevox. I've listened to many of the cassettes in the series and not noticed many words pronounced differently than I do. What stood out to you? The reader is Grover Gardner under the name Alexander Adams. While the text is in the public domain (written in 1935) the audio performance is not. From what I can find, the recordings were published in 1994.

Not helpful

@ezabjacorn6208

3 жыл бұрын

HAHAHA

@josephipattersonh6933

3 жыл бұрын

You can’t make shit up. That’s not how it went down

@mdq8198

2 жыл бұрын

@@josephipattersonh6933 write then

@markletts8802

2 жыл бұрын

It must be 50years old,it was accurate when written