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Pantheon
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- Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization
- De: Arthur Herman
- Narrado por: Paul Hecht
- Duración: 25 h y 26 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 508
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The Cave and the Light reveals how two Greek philosophers became the twin fountainheads of Western culture, and how their rivalry gave Western civilization its unique dynamism down to the present.
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1 out of 5 stars
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All of Western Philosphy Leads to Ayn Rand?!?
- De Leslie en 06-22-15
De: Arthur Herman
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The Spiritual Teachings of Seneca
- Ancient Philosophy for Modern Wisdom
- De: Mark Forstater, Victoria Radin
- Narrado por: David Troughton, Louisa Millwood Haig
- Duración: 1 h y 36 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 95
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 71
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 69
Seneca was dedicated to Stoicism, and in his essays and letters he explained the stoic position on many fundamental issues: pleasure and the problem of desire, happiness, and contentment; anger, fear, living in the present, how to think for yourself, anxiety and tranquillity, goodness, freedom, trusting the universe; courage, opportunity, cruelty and how to deal with it, friendship, love and trust, death and how to live, learning , chance and fate, time, aspirations, wisdom - and more.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Odd presentation style
- De Mark en 08-03-08
De: Mark Forstater, y otros
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The Man Who Invented Fiction
- How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World
- De: William Egginton
- Narrado por: Michael Butler Murray
- Duración: 8 h y 14 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 42
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In the early 17th century, a crippled, graying, almost toothless veteran of Spain's wars against the Ottoman Empire published a novel. It was the story of a poor nobleman, his brain addled from studying too many novels of chivalry, who deludes himself that he is a knight errant and sets off on hilarious adventures. That story, Don Quixote, went on to sell more copies than any other book beside the Bible, making its author, Miguel de Cervantes, the single most-read author in human history.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very Interesting and Informative, but Poorly Read
- De LCorSMT en 06-21-23
De: William Egginton
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God and Churchill
- How the Great Leader's Sense of Divine Destiny Changed His Troubled World and Offers Hope for Ours
- De: Wallace Henley, Jonathan Sandys
- Narrado por: Ralph Lister
- Duración: 7 h y 55 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 88
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 78
When Winston Churchill was a boy of 16, he already had a vision for his purpose in life. "This country will be subjected somehow to a tremendous invasion...I shall be in command of the defenses of London...it will fall to me to save the Capital, to save the Empire." It was a most unlikely prediction. Perceived as a failure for much of his life, Churchill was the last person anyone would have expected to rise to national prominence as prime minister and influence the fate of the world during World War II.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Just excellent
- De Claude T. Stauffer en 01-10-17
De: Wallace Henley, y otros
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A Wicked Company
- The Forgotten Radicalism of the European Enlightenment
- De: Philipp Blom
- Narrado por: James Patrick Cronin
- Duración: 14 h y 32 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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The flourishing of radical philosophy in Baron Thierry Holbach’s Paris salon from the 1750s to the 1770s stands as a seminal event in Western history. Holbach’s house was an international epicenter of revolutionary ideas and intellectual daring, bringing together such original minds as Denis Diderot, Laurence Sterne, David Hume, Adam Smith, Ferdinando Galiani, Horace Walpole, Benjamin Franklin, Guillaume Raynal, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. In A Wicked Company, acclaimed historian Philipp Blom retraces the fortunes of this exceptional group of friends.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Book on Radical Enlightenment
- De EJJ en 02-15-15
De: Philipp Blom
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Bronze Age Mindset
- De: Bronze Age Pervert
- Narrado por: Adam Smith
- Duración: 5 h y 32 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 987
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 825
Some say that this work, found in a safe-box in the port area of Kowloon, was dictated because Bronze Age Pervert refuses to learn what he calls "the low and plebeian art of writing". It isn't known how this work was transcribed. The contents are pure dynamite. He explains that you live in ant farm. That you are observed by the lords of lies, ritually probed. Ancient man had something you have lost: confidence in his instincts and strength, knowledge in his blood. BAP shows how the Bronze Age mind-set can set you free from this iron prison and help you embark on the path of power.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Mandatory Reading For All Men
- De Anonymous User en 11-20-18
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The Gay Science (The Joyful Wisdom)
- De: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Narrado por: Michael Lunts
- Duración: 10 h y 55 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 156
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 131
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 133
The Gay Science (The Joyful Wisdom) is one of Nietzsche's greatest books. His wonderfully fertile mind roams over mankind, his thoughts, his emotions, his behaviour and his weaknesses with remarkable clarity, with insight - but also with humour!In this work are 383 separate paragraphs, some short, some long, but all singular observations - the epitome of his famous aphoristic style. 'Morality is the herd instinct in the individual.'
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5 out of 5 stars
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I am now a full-fledged fan of Nietzsche
- De RS en 02-24-18
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The Swerve
- How the World Became Modern
- De: Stephen Greenblatt
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 9 h y 41 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 3,397
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,938
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 2,929
Nearly six hundred years ago, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late 30s took a very old manuscript off a library shelf, saw with excitement what he had discovered, and ordered that it be copied. That book was the last surviving manuscript of an ancient Roman philosophical epic by Lucretius—a beautiful poem containing the most dangerous ideas: that the universe functioned without the aid of gods, that religious fear was damaging to human life, and that matter was made up of very small particles.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very compelling history, a less compelling thesis
- De A reader en 05-01-12
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The Consolations of Philosophy
- De: Alain de Botton
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 6 h y 3 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 665
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 491
Alain de Botton has performed a stunning feat: He has transformed arcane philosophy into something accessible and entertaining, useful and kind. Drawing on the work of six of the world's most brilliant thinkers, de Botton has arranged a panoply of wisdom to guide us through our most common problems.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Cheering, empathic, helpful
- De Austin en 11-11-09
De: Alain de Botton
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The Greek Way
- De: Edith Hamilton
- Narrado por: Nadia May
- Duración: 8 h y 26 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 312
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 251
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 248
Based on a thorough study of Greek life and civilization, of Greek literature, philosophy, and art, The Greek Way interprets their meaning and brings a realization of the refuge and strength the past can be to us in the troubled present. Miss Hamilton's book must take its place with the few interpretative volumes which are permanently rooted and profoundly alive in our literature.
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3 out of 5 stars
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...Not as Good as The Echo of Greece
- De The Masked Reviewer en 11-04-16
De: Edith Hamilton
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All Things Shining
- Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular World
- De: Hubert Dreyfus, Sean Dorrance Kelly
- Narrado por: David Drummond
- Duración: 8 h y 35 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 173
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 142
The religious turn to their faith to find meaning. But what about the many people who lead secular lives and are also hungry for meaning? What guides, what approaches are available to them? Distinguished philosophers Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly explain that a secular life charged with meaning is indeed within reach.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Book that refreshes the classics
- De Tod en 06-14-11
De: Hubert Dreyfus, y otros
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Practicing History
- Selected Essays
- De: Barbara W. Tuchman
- Narrado por: Wanda McCaddon
- Duración: 12 h y 51 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 118
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 101
Master historian Barbara W. Tuchman looks at history in a unique way and draws lessons from what she sees. This accessible introduction to the subject of history offers striking insights into America's past and present, trenchant observations on the international scene, and thoughtful pieces on the historian's role. Here is a splendid body of work, the story of a lifetime spent "practicing history".
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2 out of 5 stars
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Barbara Tuchman fan faced with reality
- De J. Whittle en 09-27-18
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The Givenness of Things
- Essays
- De: Marilynne Robinson
- Narrado por: Coleen Marlo
- Duración: 10 h y 7 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 48
The spirit of our times can appear to be one of joyless urgency. As a culture we have become less interested in the exploration of the glorious mind, and more interested in creating and mastering technologies that will yield material well-being. But while cultural pessimism is always fashionable, there is still much to give us hope.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Mostly thoughts on religious things
- De Adam Shields en 01-26-16
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Angels and Ages
- A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life
- De: Adam Gopnik
- Narrado por: Adam Gopnik
- Duración: 7 h y 21 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 75
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 45
Written 200 years after Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln shared a birthday on February 12, 1809, this insightful account sheds new light on two men who changed the way we think about the meaning of life and death. Award-winning journalist Adam Gopnik's unique perspective, combined with previously unexplored stories and figures, reveals two men planted firmly at the roots of modern views and liberal values.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Connecting Darwin and Lincoln
- De Joshua Kim en 06-10-12
De: Adam Gopnik
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Self Reliance
- De: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Narrado por: Alana Munro
- Duración: 1 h y 20 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,015
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 847
The most thorough statement of one of Emerson's recurrent themes, the need for each individual to avoid conformity and false consistency, and follow his or her own instincts and ideas. It is the source of one of Emerson's most famous quotations, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." This essay is a considered a watershed moment in which transcendentalism became a major cultural movement. An American classic.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Don't buy this
- De Leah L en 07-31-16