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"Intellectual Caliban". Hegel is probably still sore from such a scalding burn.
That portrait is great i didnt think people smiled back then
Why didnt people over the last 300 years say cool i wanna be like Voltaire Not trying to be a dick but wheres the modern day Voltaires?
You wouldn't know him if he was replying to one of your comments.
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These AI cartoon portraits do each author and narrator disservice and indignity. What a thing
"Money is like muck, not good unless it be spread."
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Who is the narrator?
wow 6hs on rousseau, this really is wasted time... did you, did you get it?
"[Robespierre] had merely killed a King and a few thousand Frenchman - which a German might forgive." And the Brits, and the Spanish, and the Italians, and the Austrians... Love the little bits of humour in these.
Who ever wrote this didn’t rate Nietzsche that highly
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Good stuff.
biily shakespear didnt write poop like joe biden wrote the quran go do one idiots
I just couldn't keep listening when he revealed neither had read Augustine. "If God, then why bad thing happen?" We could have saved so much virile European blood from being spilled if the dismantlers of Christendom had just read Augustine. 3 Centuries wasted, sad. Interesting none the less.
And what are educated 21st African pastors doing? Anything different???. No even worse to their fellow Africans.
Hey Mona Lisa come home, you know you can’t roam without Caesar.
Amazing resources brought to listeners around the world enjoyable with lasting gratitude . Thanks!!
The RCC is the worlds largest and oldest criminal organization and pedophile ring.
2:55 "borrowed $$ from Henslowe and joined Henslowe and Shakespeare's Globe...saw Shakespeare act it at the Globe"
1:22:00 Confucius as socialist
Babel on
Is this the full audiobook ?
It is an opinion widely shared that Schopenhauer was one of the most brilliant stylists of German tongue.And as a German speaking personI have to consent. And moreover Schopenhauer appears to me as a very honest man.
Muhammad was white
This lecture is exquisitely written, and read just as exquisitely. I am as enthralled by this video as if I'm hearing musing for the first time.
Durant is one of America's best writers.
36:47 Lao-tze interplay with Rousseau, Spinoza and Hegel Pg 754
25:12 5. The Pre-Confucian Philosophers 30:46 6. The Old Master 45:01 2 Confucius
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@1:33:41 --My favourite Rousseau quote, and my favourite quote of all-time!
The false prophet was white with red hair from the caucus mountains... that's why they don't want you to see his face
While Euripides became the whipping boy of Nietzsche in the “Birth of Tragedy,” he seems to always have suffered from scorn and resentment, as far back as his own time. Like Goethe, I am beginning to appreciate the iconoclastic nature of his plays.
What an insightful comment. I, too, am exploring the genius of Goethe and Euripides.
@@DurantandFriends Much obliged, my friend. It’s taken me about 7 years to finally acknowledge Euripides. After revering Sophocles and Aeschylus for so long, it’s time to pay my respects to the neglected playwright.
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My life felt incomplete until I heard about Durant
Pity that whoever did the cover image for this episode was so intimidated by the perpetual hatred and violence of islam that they could not just put up an image of a man’s face without begging for mercy that it is “not Mohammad”.
Good comment. I am the person who created the thumbnail. It was only after then fact that I put "this is not Mohammad" on the thumbnail. It wasn't a response to "the perpetual hatred and violence of Islam", it was because I was receiving comments that it wasn't an accurate representation and that it was blasphemous to represent Mohammad. I put "this is not Mohammad" because I was tired of addressing those comments. On a separate line of thought, I do stay away from exploring (criticizing) the Muslim faith because it's not worth possibly making me or my family a target of violence. So, in that respect your comment is true, sadly it extends beyond the thumbnail and is much, MUCH, bigger than that. I wouldn't say, its because of "the perpetual hatred and violence of Islam", rather it's because of the perpetual hatred and violence people do in the name of Islam that keeps me up at night.
I do appreciate the thougthful and honest reply.. I am sick and tired of seeing islam being afforded so much “respect” vis-a-vis Christianity or other major religions. If one blasphemes Jesus, one is not very likely to be killed for that. Not so very true of islam. I discovered the Durant’s by accident while in college, nearly 60 years ago. I am rereading their epic “Story of Civilization” today. I have noticed this time around their strong attention given to French events as compared wirth the English speaking world. It is customary in our present to disparage or treat rudely virtually anything Roman, English or American. The present imbalance is not totally dissimilar to that between Christianity and islam. Again, thank you for your integrity and thank you very much for bringing the durable Durants back to center stage. They are important for the continuation of the not-so-terrible Western Civilization.
Erasmus ridiculed indulgences 6 years before Luther. Reformation prepared soil for German nationalism against Rome.
genius
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For Americans that might be confused when the term 'corn'; everywhere else in the world with possible exception of Australia, corn is just a catch-all term for cereal grains. It's not maize, that'd be North American corn. It confused me when I first read Caesar's Commentaries and he mentions needing to acquire corn for the legions since I understood corn to be native to the Americas.
A problem with authors & fake authority, esp. philosophers, is that they try to get others to see their POV👀 in order to get themselves to believe in what they hardly believe in for their own Selves, but for clever assurance, the Majority fools!
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Have you believed the gospel? The gospel is that Jesus died on the cross for your sins was buried and rose again the third day
What does Jesus have to do with the story of Hannibal? I doubt God's only begotten son would approve of spamming in such a way, I'm not judging, I am just doubting.
mass murderer laughing on reading execution reports from Topcliff 72K deaths under her rule when england was a small population afraid of the men who used her as a front NO MORAL COURAGE to do the right thing MONSTER worse than her father sexual deviant WOW english perverts what a shock; Tudor's ruined enland for and money she is a good example as to why females should not generally be given power. apologies to Marie theresa of austria and Isabella of Spain too bad bad philip failed to invade due the usual horrible english weather So of course this monster of evil and personal moral courage continues as a ICON the west
When the westerners depicted the lavintian Jesus they depicte him as an Swedish man when they depict mohammad the hujazian they depicted him as an Ethiopian this explains how they thought lol
“How he longed to be a sinner, this incorrigible saint.” 🖤
Whenever an European is praising another of his liking, I wonder how that praise is honest and truthful. Voltaire was a master trader of word salad.
I recently enjoyed Macauly's essay on Francis Bacon. It widened my outlook on this genius of a man.
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