_”…these songs reflected the moral relaxation of the carnival.”_ Love how that was put.

Great Series with, WILL DURANT. THANKS, KZread. CHEERS SBM.

@youbetyourwrasse

Ай бұрын

CHEERS TO EWE FINE SIR

How on earth did this man find the time and energy to produce such unfathamable depths of excellence?

@Dino_Medici

6 ай бұрын

He didn’t have instagram

@firstal3799

4 ай бұрын

He was a first rate intellectual and devoted his life to popular understanding of some of mankind's finest moments and productions.

@youbetyourwrasse

Ай бұрын

DIVINE INSPIRATION like most Great Artists. They are Founts for the All to drink from, And Flow they do .. (we all have experienced those moments .. only the rare and gifted can overflow with the likes of the Greats. ) :D ∞

All of these are first class.... perfectly ad free. Thanks

You are providing a public service, Rocky. Thank you!

@svenzia

5 жыл бұрын

This!

@jamesbinns8528

3 жыл бұрын

Indeed!

@julieriley7719

3 жыл бұрын

@@svenzia iiiiiu7uuuu

@svenzia

3 жыл бұрын

@@julieriley7719 hihihihi :)

00:00 The Renaissance I: Florence 00:01 Petrarch 03:22 Boccacio 06:12 The Economic Base 13:50 Cosimo di Medici 17:40 Lorenzo di Medici 28:45 Marsilio Ficino 30:10 Giovanni Pico della Mirandola 35:12 Lorenzo passes 39:51 Leonardo da Vinci 1:00:24 Leonardo the Inventor and the Scientist 1:14:13: The Renaissance II: Rome. 1:14:17 The Wandering Papacy 1:18:01 The Scholar Popes: Nicholas V and Pius II 1:23:27 Pope Julius II: the Summit of the Renaissance 1:24:00 Raphael 1:29:19 Michelangelo 1:35:14 Pope Leo X 1:42:03 Debacle: The Besieged Intellect 1:45:44 Renaissance philosophy: Pietro Pomponazzi 1:49:00 Machiavelli 2:9:22 The Renaissance III: Venetian sunset

@danielhama4558

Жыл бұрын

God bless

@Dino_Medici

6 ай бұрын

Right on bro

@johnpreuss5796

3 ай бұрын

Thank you!!

Rocky personified. You are rocking Durant. Thanks for these uploads.

this Will Durant series is fantastic! Thanks for uploading it!

@karenviljoen9075

Жыл бұрын

Thank 🎉 😊

Thanks Rocky for feeding us with such knowledge.

Thanks Rocky - a real source of learning like a Medici library!

@littlegrasshopper9270

2 жыл бұрын

Lo hymm m I’m ok It or m

@jugg3647

2 жыл бұрын

@@littlegrasshopper9270 I am an American. Chicago born - Chicago, that sombre city - and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted: sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes not so innocent. But a man's character is his fate, says Heraclitus, and in the end there isnt any way to disguise the nature of the knocks by acooustical work on the door or gloving the knuckles.

@Dino_Medici

6 ай бұрын

I am indebted

Appreciate all the uploads Rocky. I've listened to most dozens of times. Haven't seen anything new in a while.

This is much better than I remember Durant.

@youbetyourwrasse

Ай бұрын

That is called Wisdom of Age.

Fascinating subjects, unusual giants of history, well worth a listen and best of all an hour or two of time that will provide, enlightenment and knowledge of people you may of heard of or may not, thank you Will.

Will Durant is a curative for the current hostility between diametric extremes of USA's Culture Wars, and should be promulgated as such. All the modern writers and speakers of either side seem intent on exacerbating the conflict instead of resolving it.

@michaellevine2566

3 жыл бұрын

He's talking about the Renaissance. EXACTLY what is he supposed to cure? Take your time and grab your thesaurus, we'll wait. ✌

@wrybreadspread

3 жыл бұрын

@@michaellevine2566 I got a thing for a fancy prose, but I'll keep it down to 2 "syllab's" per word. We'll agree on the left and right factions, yes? Blue and red states? Of course Durant can't travel to the past and address the crowds (I assume that's what you meant. The scene from the Book Of Mormon where Christ appears to be Western Hemisphere civilizations comes to mind.) Short and sweet, Durant isn't a firebrand. He tries to reconcile. He isn't of the gun nut faction. Nor a critical theory shill. I was drawn to this passage of his (pardon lengthy quote from Wikipedia article) "On decline and rebuilding of civilizations "Much like Oswald Spengler, he saw the decline of a civilization as a culmination of strife between religion and secular intellectualism, thus toppling the precarious institutions of convention and morality: "Hence a certain tension between religion and society marks the higher stages of every civilization. Religion begins by offering magical aid to harassed and bewildered men; it culminates by giving to a people that unity of morals and belief which seems so favorable to statesmanship and art; it ends by fighting suicidally in the lost cause of the past. For as knowledge grows or alters continually, it clashes with mythology and theology, which change with geological leisureliness. Priestly control of arts and letters is then felt as a galling shackle or hateful barrier, and intellectual history takes on the character of a "conflict between science and religion." Institutions which were at first in the hands of the clergy, like law and punishment, education and morals, marriage and divorce, tend to escape from ecclesiastical control, and become secular, perhaps profane. The intellectual classes abandon the ancient theology and-after some hesitation-the moral code allied with it; literature and philosophy become anticlerical. The movement of liberation rises to an exuberant worship of reason, and falls to a paralyzing disillusionment with every dogma and every idea. Conduct, deprived of its religious supports, deteriorates into epicurean chaos; and life itself, shorn of consoling faith, becomes a burden alike to conscious poverty and to weary wealth. In the end a society and its religion tend to fall together, like body and soul, in a harmonious death. Meanwhile among the oppressed another myth arises, gives new form to human hope, new courage to human effort, and after centuries of chaos builds another civilization."

@wrybreadspread

3 жыл бұрын

@@michaellevine2566 Forget the 2 syllable limit. Durant is a popularizer. He makes history fascinating. In The Story Of Philosophy, he makes people like Kant and Spinoza both understandable and appealing.

@michaellevine2566

3 жыл бұрын

@@wrybreadspread Absolutely no need to change your form on my account. I just don't think your grandiloquence is very effective on a KZread comment thread, n'est-ce pas?

@michaellevine2566

3 жыл бұрын

@@wrybreadspread kind of like performing Mass in local language instead of Latin. So it doesn't all sound like "Greek to me" ✌👊 Peace

This is excellent

cool and thanks again rocky c.

Thank you!

This is a great service to the KZread community. Thank you, Rocky. I know I am enjoying these and will listen over and over.

So much history, so much time. So far I hv enjoyed learning about the Reformation. The lives and teachiings of Aristotle and Plato. Bring it on!

Thank You - there's obviously the Leonardo Da Vinci biography inserted, but one cannot learn enough about Eratostenes little brother ;)

Impresionante estatua.

Thanks

appreciation for our collective education

Thanks Rock

29:17 "Christianity appeared to him in this mood as one of the many religions that hid elements of truth behind their allegorical dogmas and symbolic rights." well said.

@matthewperdoni8845

6 жыл бұрын

47:11 "art he said (Leonardo de Vinci) lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution, this was labor for lesser minds."

@chipparker3950

5 жыл бұрын

Rights or rites?

@arkbusinessservices7310

4 жыл бұрын

I knew one would pop up in this comment section.

Simple. Quaint.

Please have all your work on apple podcast. Thank you for your amazing reading

Thanks bro!

Winnipeg Manitoba Canada 🇨🇦

How exciting to learn about early history in such detail. Thanks for uploading this series !!!

ROCKY! ROCKY! ROCKY!

Dauphin River First Nation Canada 🇨🇦

I'm here to tell you that I read all 11 volumes of The Story of Civilization consecutively, every word...for no other reason than to be able to say so...:-)

@yankee2666

2 жыл бұрын

You're very honest with yourself. Congratulations. Many of us might squander infinitely less time if we could be aware of how much we did just 'to be able to say so'.

ty ty ty - my sleep thanks you

1:23:00 Pope julius II and his patronage of Raphael and Michelangelo

Rocky, might you be so kind as to upload the full, unabridged audiobook? And others by Mr. Durant. Thank you : )

@wiseonwords

Жыл бұрын

@@DurantandFriends - You are a star.

Is this from Will Durant's book called the Renaissance? Or is it a section from another work?

@mattmacaulay2900

4 жыл бұрын

Rocky C Thank you!

This narrator also did some work on H.P Lovecraft or August Derleth's stories. Good stuff.

Are you posting these as you work your way through them, Rocky?

@christopheroehrli902

6 жыл бұрын

Rocky C hopefully it’s not actual AIDS!

@michaelleblanc7283

6 жыл бұрын

Rocky - wish you would tell your fans where, when and why your interest in Durant began . . . and what motivated you to share it. The effort you must put into this isn't negligible and no doubt has infected many others with your own 'Durantian Disease'.

@michaelleblanc7283

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Rocky, for your answers and for identifying the 'voice' in the post scriptum message below.

@michaelleblanc7283

6 жыл бұрын

Years ago I knew an older lady, Mary Atkins, who told me she lived beside the Durants in California. I don't think she was bragging because the subject matter that led to our friendship and a long correspondence was history of a very different kind. It is curious how we can associate recording voices in such a way that they replace the 'originals' in our own minds, no doubt because they are trained & talented speakers while the 'originals' were not. An example and an exception of sorts, of this kind might be M.L. Cohen's reading of Henry Lewis Mencken's 'In Defense of Women', which can be found at Librivox. It is almost impossible for me to imagine he's not Mencken, even though I have heard a recording of Mencken's voice. Cohen, who is probably not a professional reader, is a real pleasure listen to. librivox.org/in-defense-of-women-by-hl-mencken/ Mencken's book might be too controversial for you to present but then the reaction & commentary on your message board would be rich. I have urged it on both women and men but have consistently run into strong resistance from both sexes. Men cannot easily get past the 1st chapter while most women love the first chapter, start to get wary with the second and probably don't ever finish the third. What a pity ! He has an excellent sense of humour, draws much of his inspiration from the philosophers you yourself have uploaded readings about, and his 1918-1920's predictions proved completely accurate by the end of the century. The issues he was raising way back then are very current today - proving that the play never changes . . . only the actors do.

@not2tees

6 жыл бұрын

Rocky + I add my sincere thanks for uploading these Durant videos. I came across The Story of Philosophy back in the '60s as a teenager, and when my Dad impatiently asked me what I was "going to be" as an adult, I told him, "a philosopher." That went well? : )

17:39 rest in peace COZIMO

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does anybody know what book is these series from?

58:24

Who is the narrator, he is very good, sounds like Vincent price

@yankee2666

2 жыл бұрын

No, he doesn't. The same clear, decisive delivery, perhaps - but hardly the same sound.

Poor adrian

Description of the persons of the platonists and other men is a bit untrue and bombastic.

miss demeanas placeth me

13:30

2:12

1:00:00

Mi opinión ice cream to de monitor birds 2 remember kloeh for really cuz I’m hard expression toggle

If you added some visuals for every topic he talks about it would add so much value and help enlighten the world.

1:03:55

A 'ducket' - a ducket, a ducket - what the f... is a ducket? One ducket = $20,000??? Ok, if this talk was done with 'appropriate' pictures of time it would be 10,000 times better!

Since when is the RINASCIMENTO a French ‘Invention?’ And the word becomes “Renaissance?”

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Ok

Russia never got this dlc

Orgine ur lies fence ur built u know what u forget

doja cat is sento kill nano for beating chivi i livrode him viel it un ing after math

Money is root of all civilization... Bible of capitalism.

@Dino_Medici

6 ай бұрын

Ben Franklyn is god

@Dino_Medici

6 ай бұрын

💀💀💀💀💀

Good try.... 🥺

Blank mailed my echapedos ciz he is gangster not lol

@josecarbajal9213

2 жыл бұрын

Tweet reply me

@josecarbajal9213

2 жыл бұрын

Your wired cuz u hear us in my ur head

HW THE FKKKK DID I END UP HERE???

41:39