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The Great Courses: The Wisdom of History
- Item Number
- 415
- Estimated Value
- 270 USD
- Sold
- 71 USD to Renovator33
- Number of Bids
- 5 - Bid History
Item Description
Do the lessons passed down to us by history, lessons whose origins may lie hundreds, even thousands, of years in the past, still have value for us today? Is Santayana's oft-repeated saying, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" merely a way to offer lip service to history as a teacher—or can we learn from it? And if we can, what is it that we should be learning?
Professor J. Rufus Fears believes that not only can we learn from history—we must. In The Wisdom of History, his newest course for The Teaching Company, he draws on decades of experience as a world-renowned scholar and classical historian to examine the patterns of history. Ignoring them, by choice or because we've never learned to see them, is to risk becoming their prisoner, repeating the mistakes that have toppled leaders, nations, and empires throughout time.
The Great Courses® Philosophy & Intellectual History . . . The Wisdom of History, Taught By Professor J. Rufus Fears, Ph.D., Harvard University, University of Oklahoma
Item Special Note
6 Audio CDs: 36 Lectures, 30 minutes per lecture
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Donated By:
Jason and Allison Smigel
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