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Indeed, while I adore Duran's historical productions, his ancient history pieces contain a few (dated) errors, since they were compiled around 1932 (some of them revised in the early 1960s), before a great deal of revisions/updates have been conducted.

that's being half french !

Martin Jimenez Lao Tsu is discussed in Rocky’s video on China. Will Durant spends more time on Confucius, but admirably gives a few aphorisms from the Tao to show how a wise man is similarly described by both Lao Tsu and Confucius. Of course, the meeting between young Confucius and the aged sage is worth the click by itself.

Why do u think our egocentric world causes suffering? To what extend do you accredit it to people not prioritizing on altruism, since it can sometimes be the oppositie of egoism, so in other words people not taking care for each other?

People talked like that at the time

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You are awesome. Thanks for telling others the facts here. I hope you continue to correct what you understand for the general public about these outdated materials on here so they can understand.

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Please teach us 1% of your great knowledge and wisdom, o great sage.

@@Gracchi That’s not nice. Just read contemporary history or talk to any academic historian. History has gotten better. Methods in genetics, archeology, scholarship connecting Persian and Greek intellectual history (a hot topic requiring multilingual researchers with access to Iran, and post-colonial sensibilities just didn’t exist in the pre-1980s), dating methods, and most importantly digital scholarship methods allowed by OCR and generous uploadings by libraries, heavily used now, cummatively generate an accelerating improvement in scholarship. Compare recent work on Rome with Gibbon. I love Gibbon’s prose. He was super-human, but wrong about lots! My remarks are not meant to denigrate the Durants, , or say Gibbon (or Newton or Magic Johnson), instead all their enterprises have progressed and are better now. If we survive as a species expect more progress and enjoy it.

@@GracchiI’m not accusing Gibbon or the Durants of fruad, just pointing you, assuming you are interested in well evidenced works and truth, to look at contemporary scholarship over the last 20 years-so not fads, actual discoveries and corrections. Almost the same goes for Winston Churchill’s histories which are great reading, except he can be accused of a racist, imperial bias-entertaining but inaccurate and probably for most a waste of time. I also don’t want you to feel I’m attacking the West. I am not. From the West, we get Kant’s essay defining the cosmopolitan. Self-esteem should come from personal accomplishment not geographic historical identity and absolutely not from inaccurate narratives. Don’t be afraid of a history that’s cleverer about evidence, more careful about causal claims, uses digital methods, and free from Occidental biases. These are all achievements that bring us closer to understanding history, which is not dead, not even past (Faulkner), but like a baseball carrying the momentum from the batter, we are a globe in flight and history, like momentum is a property inextricable from the matter.

Nope this is merged from a series of audio books you had to buy - not librevox. I've listened to many of the cassettes in the series and not noticed many words pronounced differently than I do. What stood out to you? The reader is Grover Gardner under the name Alexander Adams. While the text is in the public domain (written in 1935) the audio performance is not. From what I can find, the recordings were published in 1994.

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You can’t make shit up. That’s not how it went down

@@josephipattersonh6933 write then

It must be 50years old,it was accurate when written