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Greatly Insightful

Revisado: 08-10-23

Ordinarily I would leave only a star review and not make a comment, but in this case I’m making an exception. I have nothing but the highest praise for this book and how it illuminates the Socratic method. However, the narrator is abysmal. His voice is one of the most monotonous I’ve encountered in any audiobook. In fact, at one point I paused the recording to see if this audiobook was actually read by a human being and not a computer program. Not a kind review, but there you have it.

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Good Enough

Revisado: 08-06-23

Good enough for a free audiobook offered though the premium membership on here. At this point I’ve listened to maybe two dozen Great Courses audiobook, and it’s clear many of them have a clear Christian biases, or at least the lecturers do. The Great Courses program seems to be aimed more towards a Christian audience. That aside, this course was pretty solid and rather informative, yet still questionable in certain parts due to the bias aforementioned.

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Interesting Interpretation

Revisado: 08-03-23

Very interesting interpretation of the book of Job. Clearly Jung is drawing from gnostic and apocryphal texts, which will a mostly certainly be rejected by most Christian dogmatists, which won’t leave Christian’s on the street level’s understanding of Yahweh, The Lord, God, Jehovah changed in any significant way. I do think Jung, like all the followers of the abrahamic faith systems, stretch Yahweh too much into the shape of the ultimate supreme deity. Joseph Campbell’s seminal series on mythology and its evolution into theology tackles that issue with finesse and supreme insight and intelligence. Jung’s biases as a Protestant and a gnostic shine though here.

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Narrator is Unbearable

Revisado: 07-29-23

The monotonous, always chipper, caramel filled bonbon who’s narrating this book is intolerable. She sounds like a British Siri! Besides that, her style is more appropriate for narrating a travel brochure for a Caribbean island. Completely out of place for a book on ancient Roman history. What a pity, I enjoy Mary’s books!

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Marvelous

Revisado: 07-20-23

Another masterpiece of scholarship and insight my Joseph Campbell. It’s a real pity it’s received as of this moment only 53 reviews, though overall nearly 5 star rating. I surmise many Christian’s won’t appreciate his insights into Christianity, same with the Jews and Muslims, which may be why Campbell and his work is essentially unheard of or ignored by the orthodox of any abrahamic sect.

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Wonderful! Don’t let the naysayers fool you

Revisado: 06-28-23

Absolutely illuminating account of the development of philosophy, especially its strengths and weaknesses. As to the other reviews that express Russell is “biased” against Christianity, well. I don’t think the reviewers have followed Russell’s arguments and logical reasonings closely enough to understand how he points out the failures, conceits, misinterpretations, out right lies, bigotries, and perhaps especially lack of scientific thinking the previous philosophers have used or have not used in order to account for the big ideas in religion. Russell begins with Orpheus as far back as in ancient Ionia and works his way forward to more modern Christian philosophies, and breaks down the lines of thinking that built up through antiquity, carried INTO Christianity as a foundation OF Christianity, and then lead up to more modern lines of thinking, which is based upon the same well spring of thought. Also, I suspect the angry reviewers to most likely be Christian themselves and to have a biased in favor of their own religious beliefs.

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Somewhat Good Enough

Revisado: 05-18-23

Interesting survey course. Several of the professors show a clear bias in favor of Christianity over paganism, Protestantism over Catholicism, and Protestantism’s ultimate culmination in evangelism in the US today. Professor Carey, in particular, gives preferential treatment to religion over secularism, and, to be frank he can take his “strong right leg” that’s attached to the “heart” and hobble off with it.

This is one of the few courses taught by the Great Courses Series which I did not enjoy. The series would have done better to choose professors who would not interject their faith based value judgements into their sermons.

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Good Enough

Revisado: 05-16-23

This course is informative enough and seems to touch on all the key points and players. However, I don’t particular like Hale’s delivery or description. Rather lackluster in comparison to the courses taught by other professors, and even rather glib and demeaning at times. 1 star for “performance.” 5 stars for the “story.”

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Excellent!

Revisado: 05-14-23

Absolutely loved the story, very amusing, insightful, intelligent, and ironic. Jack Davenport’s narration was one of the best I’ve heard!

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Excellent!

Revisado: 05-04-23

Words cannot begin to express how much I thoroughly enjoyed the book. You must listen to it from start to finish, and never once stop enjoying the contrarian nature of this brilliant, entertaining, and extremely colorful man!

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