Books that have made history. Part 2 books that can change your life
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...
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Table of Contents:
- Lecture 13: Plato, "Phaedo"
- lecture 14: Dante, "The Divine comedy"
- lecture 15: Shakespeare, "Othello, the Moor of Venice"
- lecture 16: Aeschylus, "Prometheus bound"
- lecture 17: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, "The Gulag archipelago"
- lecture 18: Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar"
- lecture 19: George Orwell, "1984"
- lecture 20: Virgil, "Aeneid"
- lecture 21: Pericles, "Orations"; Lincoln, "Gettysburg address"
- lecture 22: Remarque, "All quiet on the western front"
- lecture 23: Confucius, "The Analects"
- lecture 24: Machiavelli, "The prince."
