Heroes of History: A Brief History of Civilization from Ancient Times to the Dawn of the Modern AgeSimon and Schuster, 2002 M04 23 - 351 páginas In the tradition of his own bestselling masterpieces The Story of Civilization and The Lessons of History, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Will Durant traces the lives and ideas of those who have helped to define civilization, from its dawn to the beginning of the modern world. Heroes of History is a book of life-enhancing wisdom and optimism, complete with Durant's wit, knowledge, and unique ability to explain events and ideas in simple, exciting terms. It is the lessons of our heritage passed on for the edification and benefit of future generations—a fitting legacy from America's most beloved historian and philosopher. Will Durant's popularity as America's favorite teacher of history and philosophy remains undiminished by time. His books are accessible to readers of every kind, and his unique ability to compress complicated ideas and events into a few pages without ever "talking down" to the reader, enhanced by his memorable wit and a razor-sharp judgment about men and their motives, made all of his books huge bestsellers. Heroes of History carries on this tradition of making scholarship and philosophy understandable to the general reader, and making them good reading, as well. At the dawn of a new millennium and the beginning of a new century, nothing could be more appropriate than this brilliant book that examines the meaning of human civilization and history and draws from the experience of the past the lessons we need to know to put the future into context and live in confidence, rather than fear and ignorance. |
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... souls are beckoned in to visit for a while with people who are willing to walk with us and tell us tales of life, love, war, poetry, and thought, and offer to uplift us to a greater and nobler perspective of tolerance, wisdom, and a ...
... souls are beckoned in to visit for a while with people who are willing to walk with us and tell us tales of life, love, war, poetry, and thought, and offer to uplift us to a greater and nobler perspective of tolerance, wisdom, and a ...
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... soul is serene; It dwells in another heaven and earth belonging to no man. The peach trees are in flower, and the water flows on. Or: I saw the moonlight before my couch, And wondered if it were not the frost on the ground. I raised my ...
... soul is serene; It dwells in another heaven and earth belonging to no man. The peach trees are in flower, and the water flows on. Or: I saw the moonlight before my couch, And wondered if it were not the frost on the ground. I raised my ...
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... general amnesty was declared, and the poet turned his faltering steps homeward. Three years later he sickened and died, and legend, discontent with an ordinary death for so rare a soul, told how he was 30 Will Durant.
... general amnesty was declared, and the poet turned his faltering steps homeward. Three years later he sickened and died, and legend, discontent with an ordinary death for so rare a soul, told how he was 30 Will Durant.
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... soul, told how he was drowned in a river while attempting, in hilarious intoxication, to embrace the water's reflection of the moon. All in all, the thirty volumes of delicate and kindly verse which he left behind him warrant his ...
... soul, told how he was drowned in a river while attempting, in hilarious intoxication, to embrace the water's reflection of the moon. All in all, the thirty volumes of delicate and kindly verse which he left behind him warrant his ...
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... soul or force within us, or within a tree or a stone, is identical with the impersonal Soul of the World. Hear the most lovable of the Upanishad gurus, Yajnavalkya, explain this to his pupil Shwetaketu: “Bring me a fig from there ...
... soul or force within us, or within a tree or a stone, is identical with the impersonal Soul of the World. Hear the most lovable of the Upanishad gurus, Yajnavalkya, explain this to his pupil Shwetaketu: “Bring me a fig from there ...
Contenido
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Philosophy and Poetry in the Old Testament | 55 |
The Road to Pericles | 67 |
The Golden Age of Athens | 78 |
The Human Christ | 159 |
The Growth of the Church | 170 |
The Renaissance I Around Leonardo | 184 |
The Renaissance II Rome | 214 |
The Renaissance III Venetian Sunset | 236 |
The Reformation I Wyclif and Erasmus | 245 |
The Reformation II 151755 Luther and the Communists | 267 |
The Catholic Reformation 151763 | 293 |
From Plato to Alexander | 94 |
The Roman Republic | 110 |
The Roman Revolution | 124 |
The Roman Empire 27 BCAD 180 | 141 |
Nero and Aurelius | 149 |
Shakespeare and Bacon | 306 |
Index | 331 |
About the Author | 349 |
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