Books that have made history. Part 3 books that can change your life (Great courses (Compact disc))
Audiobook (CD)
Availability
Loading...
Summary
Professor J. Rufus Fears presents his choices of some of the most essential writings in history. These are works that shaped the minds of great individuals and that offer an extraordinary gift of wisdom to those willing to receive it. Focus is on intellectual history and ethics, taking the underlyin... Full description
Table of Contents:
- Lecture 25: Plato, "Republic"
- lecture 26: John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty"
- lecture 27: Sir Thomas Malory, "Morte d' Arthur"
- lecture 28: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, "Faust, pt. 1"
- lecture 29: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Faust, pt. 2"
- lecture 30: Henry David Thoreau, "Walden"
- lecture 31: Gibbon, "Decling and fall of the Roman Empire"
- lecture 32: Lord Acton, "The history of Freedom"
- lecture 33: Cicero, "On moral duties (De officiis)"
- lecture 34: Gandhi, "An autobiography
- lecture 35: Churchill, "My early life," "Painting as a pastime," "WWII"
- lecture 36: Lessons from the great books.