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The American Scholar was a speech given by Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1837 to the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard College.
Emerson argues that American culture, still heavily influenced by Europe, could build a new, distinctly American cultural identity. Emerson uses Transcendentalist and Romantic points of view to explain a true American scholar's relationship to nature.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. declared this speech to be America's "Intellectual Declaration of Independence". Building on the growing attention he was receiving from the essay Nature, this speech solidified Emerson's popularity and weight in America.
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Best-selling historian and philosopher Will Durant devoted his entire life to studying the most significant eras, individuals, and achievements of human history. Here is a summation of Durant's work, as he presents the best of world history. Filled with Durant's renowned wit, knowledge, and unique ability to explain events in simple and exciting terms, it is a concise liberal arts education.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Puzzled
- De James en 04-06-04
De: Will Durant
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Plato's Phaedrus
- De: Plato
- Narrado por: Ray Childs
- Duración: 2 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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Phaedrus lures Socrates outside the walls of Athens, where he seldom goes, by promising to share a new work by his friend and mentor, Lysias, a famous writer of speeches. This dialogue provides a powerful example of the dialectical writing that Plato uses to manifest ideas that are essential to human existence and to living a good life. Phaedrus shows how oral and written forms of language relate to each other and to philosophy.
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1 out of 5 stars
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six pages (Hackett Complete Works edition) missing
- De S. Lee en 01-17-19
De: Plato
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Plato's Republic
- De: Plato
- Narrado por: Ray Childs
- Duración: 11 h y 46 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,523
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The Republic poses questions that endure: What is justice? What form of community fosters the best possible life for human beings? What is the nature and destiny of the soul? What form of education provides the best leaders for a good republic? What are the various forms of poetry and the other arts, and which ones should be fostered and which ones should be discouraged? How does knowing differ from believing?
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1 out of 5 stars
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BEWARE: shortened version
- De Dranu en 03-08-20
De: Plato
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Bushido: The Soul of Japan (AmazonClassics Edition)
- De: Inazo Nitobé
- Narrado por: Brian Nishii
- Duración: 4 h y 24 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 103
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Through a study of the way of the samurai, Nitobe identifies the seven virtues most widely recognized by the Japanese: rectitude, courage, benevolence, politeness, veracity, honor, and loyalty. In sharing these moral guidelines, handed down over generations, Nitobe gives the world unique insight into a previously unexplored code of honor.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Contemplative
- De J. Eastman en 02-05-21
De: Inazo Nitobé
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The Secret History of America
- Classic Writings on Our Nation's Unknown Past and Inner Purpose
- De: Manly P. Hall, Mitch Horowitz - editor
- Narrado por: Mitch Horowitz
- Duración: 8 h y 30 m
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Writer and scholar Manly P. Hall (1901-1990) is one of the most significant names in the study of the esoteric, symbolic, and occult. His legendary book The Secret Teachings of All Ages has been an underground classic since its publication in 1928. The Secret History of America expands on that legacy, offering a collection of Hall’s works - from books and journals to transcriptions of his lectures - all relating to the hidden past and unfolding future of our nation.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting history.
- De Rudy F. Ochoa en 05-11-20
De: Manly P. Hall, y otros
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The Renaissance
- Studies in Art and Poetry
- De: Walter Pater
- Narrado por: Wanda McCaddon
- Duración: 6 h y 24 m
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Published to great acclaim in 1873, Walter Pater’s compendium of idiosyncratic, impressionistic essays on the Renaissance gained him a reputation as a daring modern philosopher. Oscar Wilde called it the “holy writ of beauty.” It was Pater’s cry of “art for art’s sake” that became the manifesto for the aesthetic movement. He believed that art should be sensual and that beauty should rank as the highest ideal. Marked by elegant fluency, Pater’s essays discuss Botticelli, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and other artists who, for him, embodied the spirit of the Renaissance.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Bizarre....no idea what I just listened to.
- De GogolGirl en 10-14-20
De: Walter Pater
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The Varieties of Religious Experience
- De: William James
- Narrado por: Jim Killavey
- Duración: 18 h y 9 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 105
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The Varieties of Religious Experience is considered to be the classic work in the field. To quote Wikipedia, "James was most interested in understanding personal religious experience. The importance of James to the psychology of religion - and to psychology more generally - is difficult to overstate. He discussed many essential issues that remain of vital concern today. What makes James writing so special is that he could take a very complex subject and, without watering it down, make it understandable to 'the rest of us.'"
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5 out of 5 stars
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Profound stuff
- De Empowerment en 09-05-09
De: William James
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Emerson
- The Mind on Fire
- De: Robert D. Richardson
- Narrado por: Michael McConnohie
- Duración: 26 h y 8 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 277
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Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most important figures in the history of American thought, religion, and literature. The vitality of his writings and the unsettling power of his example continue to influence us more than a hundred years after his death. Now Robert D. Richardson Jr. brings to life an Emerson very different from the old stereotype of the passionless Sage of Concord.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Finally!
- De Douglas en 08-15-14
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The Discarded Image
- An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature
- De: C. S. Lewis
- Narrado por: Richard Elwood
- Duración: 5 h y 59 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 143
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The Discarded Image paints a lucid picture of the medieval worldview, providing the historical and cultural background to the literature of the middle ages and renaissance. It describes the 'image' discarded by later years as "the medieval synthesis itself, the whole organization of their theology, science, and history into a single, complex, harmonious mental model of the universe". This, Lewis' last book, has been hailed as "the final memorial to the work of a great scholar and teacher and a wise and noble mind".
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5 out of 5 stars
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I hope more of Lewis's scholastic stuff is coming
- De James en 04-01-21
De: C. S. Lewis
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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 311
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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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Why We Are Restless
- On the Modern Quest for Contentment
- De: Benjamin Storey, Jenna Silber Storey
- Narrado por: Laurel Lefkow
- Duración: 6 h y 35 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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We live in an age of unprecedented prosperity, yet everywhere we see signs that our pursuit of happiness has proven fruitless. Dissatisfied, we seek change for the sake of change - even if it means undermining the foundations of our common life. In Why We Are Restless, Benjamin and Jenna Storey offer a profound and beautiful reflection on the roots of this malaise and examine how we might begin to cure ourselves.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good primer.
- De Chris en 09-29-21
De: Benjamin Storey, y otros
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The Birth of Tragedy Out of the Spirit of Music
- De: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Narrado por: Duncan Steen
- Duración: 6 h y 5 m
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One of Nietzsche’s earliest works, The Birth of Tragedy (1872) is a remarkable source of inspiration. It is here that the philosopher expresses his frustration with the contemporary world and urges man to embrace Dionysian energy once more. He refutes European culture since the time of Socrates, arguing that it is one-sidedly Apollonian and prevents man from living in optimistic harmony with the sufferings of life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Apollonian vs The Dionysian
- De JCW en 02-05-18
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Letters to a Young Poet
- De: Rainer Maria Rilke, Stephen Mitchell - translator
- Narrado por: Stephen Mitchell
- Duración: 1 h y 18 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 261
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Ranier Maria Rilke challenges you, "...to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answers." Rilke's ability to combine the sensual and the spiritual into an inspired vision of the art of living is brought to vivid life in his letters. Through his eyes, the everyday difficulties of love, sex, solitude, sadness, and doubt are seen as the archetypal elements of the drama called life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Priceless Recordings of Intense Feeling
- De David en 10-08-04
De: Rainer Maria Rilke, y otros
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- Anonymous User
- 06-24-23
A powerful statement on the important of self thought
Many many great ideas on individualism, thinking for yourself, the vices of formalized education and the state of weak men. Many great quotes from this essay. Overall I take away the main lesson that education should not become ordained. Cleverness, always, comes first.
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