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The Birth of the Modern Mind: The Intellectual History of the 17th and 18th Centuries
- De: Alan Charles Kors, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Alan Charles Kors
- Duración: 12 h y 34 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 263
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 219
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 220
Revolutions in thought (as opposed to those in politics or science) are in many ways the most far-reaching of all. They affect how we grant legitimacy to authority, define what is possible, create standards of right and wrong, and even view the potential of human life. Between 1600 and 1800, such a revolution of the intellect seized Europe, shaking the minds of the continent as few things before or since. What we now know as the Enlightenment challenged previously accepted ways of understanding reality, bringing about modern science, representative democracy, and a wave of wars, sparking what Professor Kors calls "perhaps the most profound transformation of European, if not human, life." In this series of 24 insightful lectures, you'll explore the astonishing conceptual and cultural revolution of the Enlightenment. You'll witness in its tumultuous history the birth of modern thought in the dilemmas, debates, and extraordinary works of the 17th- and 18th-century mind, as wielded by the likes of thinkers like Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes, Pascal, Newton, Locke, Hume, Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau.And you'll understand why educated Europeans came to believe that they had a new understanding-of thought and the human mind, of method, of nature, and of the uses of knowledge-with which they could come to know the world correctly for the first time in human history, and with which they could rewrite the possibilities of human life.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good material, annoying voice
- De Don en 08-29-13
Title Misleading
Revisado: 12-20-19
Based on the title and sample audio prior to purchase I didn't expect such a slant toward religions influence in the material. Don't get me wrong, I am aware of the authority the church had over Natural Philosophy/Science and Reason of the period but it might have been better if the focus was more on the Philosophers and their positions regardless of religion.
I have studied these individuals previously and their arguments stand on their own irregardless of how religion oppressed thought during these periods. Its as if the lectures were trying to justify/defend the philosophers in the face of religion. I am more interested in the arguments the philosophers where supporting and how they worked themselves out over time rather than how they sat next to theology during the times.
The title seems to point to how thought changed through to the enlightenment period from dogmatic authority to experimental critical thought. Which would have to address religions place but then move onto how thinking about the world shifted. For example in the lecture on Hume we don't get a deep dive into Hume we get others named based on their religious influence on him and his defense. Just wasn't the set of lectures I hoped for.
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The Tao Te Ching
- The Classic of the Tao and Its Power
- De: Man Ho Kwok, Jay Ramsay, Martin Palmer
- Narrado por: Sir Nigel Hawthorne
- Duración: 1 h y 16 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 89
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 65
Sir Nigel Hawthorne's inspiring reading brings to life this new translation of Lao Tzu's 2,500 year old Chinese classic. Probably the most influential spiritual book in human history, the Tao Te Ching translates as The Classic of The Tao and Its Power. In 80 short chapters, it reveals a profound view of the Tao, a unique and satisfying way of life and nature.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of my favorite translations
- De scott en 12-22-15
- The Tao Te Ching
- The Classic of the Tao and Its Power
- De: Man Ho Kwok, Jay Ramsay, Martin Palmer
- Narrado por: Sir Nigel Hawthorne
Narration Is a problem
Revisado: 05-31-18
The narrator could not maintain an even volume when speaking making it difficult to hear with the smallest noises around me. The narrator also sped up and slowed down randomly making it hard to follow along in some parts. The content itself is great though I need to get a copy with a different narrator.
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Getting More
- How You Can Negotiate to Succeed in Work and Life
- De: Stuart Diamond
- Narrado por: Marc Cashman
- Duración: 18 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,023
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 813
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 804
Based on thirty years of research among forty thousand people in sixty countries, Wharton Business School Professor and Pulitzer Prize winner Stuart Diamond shows in this unique and revolutionary book how emotional intelligence, perceptions, cultural diversity and collaboration produce four times as much value as old-school, conflictive, power, leverage and logic.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This works
- De Christian en 02-26-11
- Getting More
- How You Can Negotiate to Succeed in Work and Life
- De: Stuart Diamond
- Narrado por: Marc Cashman
Hard to learn from all the anecdotes
Revisado: 01-20-16
What did you like best about Getting More? What did you like least?
The narrator, Stuart Diamond was good but I found that I wanted more meat from the book rather than hear a bunch of anecdotes.
Was Getting More worth the listening time?
Considering that I listen while I drive it wasn't too bad. I would have put it down pretty early on otherwise.
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