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Life Lessons From the Great Books

Fears, J. Rufus, 1945-2012. Book on CD - 2009 None on shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 0 out of 5

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Disc 1. Lecture 1. Seneca, On providence ; Lecture 2. The gospel of John ; disc 2. Lecture 3. Boethius/Martin Luther King/Conscience ; Lecture 4. Dostoevsky, The brothers Karamazov ; disc 3. Lecture 5. Elie Wiesel, Night -- Lecture 6. Schweitzer, Out of my life and thought ; disc 4. Lecture 7. Goethe, The sufferings of young Werther ; Lecture 8. Shakespeare, Hamlet ; disc 5. Lecture 9. Sophocles, Ajax ; Lecture 10. Plato, Epistle VII ; disc 6. Lecture 11. Cicero, On old age ; Lecture 12. Isaac Bashevis singer, The penitent --
Disc 7. Lecture 13. Euripides, Alcestis ; Lecture 14. Euripides, Medea ; disc 8. Lecture 15. Von Strasburg, Tristan and Isolde ; Lecture 16. Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra ; disc 9. Lecture 17. Shakespeare, Macbeth ; Lecture 18. Aldous Huxley, Brave new world ; disc 10. Lecture 19. Homer, Odyssey ; Lecture 20. Sophocles, Philoctetes ; disc 11. Lecture 21. The song of Roland, chivalric adventure ; Lecture 22. Nibelungenlied, chivalric romance ; disc 12. Lecture 23. Lewis and Clark, journals ; Lecture 24. T.E. Lawrence, Seven pillars of wisdom --
Disc 13. Lectures 25. Aristophanes, comedies ; Lecture 26. Menaner, The grouch ; disc 14. Lecture 27. Machiavelli, La mandragola ; Lecture 28. Erasmus, In praise of folly ; disc 15. Lecture 29. Thomas More, Utopia ; Lecture 30. George Orwell, Animal farm ; disc 16. Lecture 31. Josephus, History of the Jewish War ; Lecture 32. Joseph Addison, Cato ; disc 17. Lecture 33. George Washington, farewell address ; Lecture 34. Abraham Lincoln, George Patton, war ; disc 18. Lecture 35. Theodore Roosevelt, an autobiography ; Lecture 36. The wisdom of great books.
Professor J. Rufus Fears, lecturer, University of Oklahoma.
This course explores six themes that every one of us has experienced or will experience: the unconquerable human spirit; youth, old age, and all that is between; romance and love; adventure and courage; laughter and irony; and patriotism.

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Great courses.



PUBLISHED
Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., [2009]
Year Published: 2009
Description: 18 sound discs (ca. 360 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 141 p. ; 19 cm.)
Language: English
Format: Book on CD

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
1598035169
9781598035162

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Teaching Company.

SUBJECTS
Literature.
Philosophy in literature.