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Lecture 12: The Existentialist Frame of Mind
A full-text lecture that introduces and explains the origins of 20th century existentialism from the standpoint of historical experience in the inter-war ...
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The Printing Press
The immediate effect of the printing press was to multiply the output and cut the costs of books. It thus made information available to a much larger ...
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Karl Marx, 1818-1883
Karl Heinrich Marx was born into a comfortable middle-class home in Trier on the river ... of political economy, particularly Adam Smith and David Ricardo. ...
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Galileo, The Starry Messenger (1610)
Here we have a fine and elegant argument for quieting the doubts of those who, while accepting with tranquil mind the revolutions of the planets about the ...
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Lecture 9: The Triumph of Science and the 18th Century Philosophe
Écrasez l'infâme! shouted Voltaire. "Wipe it out! Wipe out the infamous!" Only science, with its predictable results was the way to truth, moral improvement ...
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The Printing Press
The immediate effect of the printing press was to multiply the output and cut ... The import of paper from the East as well as "block-books" (see above), ...
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Lecture 15: 1968 -- The Year of the Barricades
Were they genuine revolutionaries whose battles cries were "make love, not war," "the ... I don't recall seeing these bumper stickers back in 1968, do you? ...
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Karl Marx, 1818-1883
The philosopher, social scientist, historian and revolutionary, Karl Marx, ... Marx's contribution to our understanding of society has been enormous. ...
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Edmund Burke, "Reflections on the Revolution in France" (1790)
Brief extract from Burke's "Reflections" regarding the dangers of speedy, "reflective" change.
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Edmund Burke, "Reflections on the Revolution in France" (1790)
Brief extract from Burke's "Reflections" regarding the dangers of speedy, "reflective" change.
