Books that have made history, books that can change your life, [Professor J. Rufus Fears], Part 3
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Books that have made history, books that can change your life, [Professor J. Rufus Fears], Part 3
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Books that have made history
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61099091
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[Professor J. Rufus Fears]
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Great courses
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books that can change your life
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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 underlying ideas of each great work and revealing how these ideas can be put to use in a moral and ethical life. The range in time is from the 3rd millennium B.C. to the 20th century, and in locale from Mesopotamia and China to Europe and America
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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, part 1" -- lecture 29: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, "Faust, part 2" -- lecture 30: Henry David Thoreau, "Walden" -- lecture 31: Gibbon, "Decline 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
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Books that can change your life
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