This!

Indeed!

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He didn’t have instagram

He was a first rate intellectual and devoted his life to popular understanding of some of mankind's finest moments and productions.

DIVINE INSPIRATION like most Great Artists. They are Founts for the All to drink from, And Flow they do .. (we all have experienced those moments .. only the rare and gifted can overflow with the likes of the Greats. ) :D ∞

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@@littlegrasshopper9270 I am an American. Chicago born - Chicago, that sombre city - and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted: sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes not so innocent. But a man's character is his fate, says Heraclitus, and in the end there isnt any way to disguise the nature of the knocks by acooustical work on the door or gloving the knuckles.

I am indebted

That is called Wisdom of Age.

He's talking about the Renaissance. EXACTLY what is he supposed to cure? Take your time and grab your thesaurus, we'll wait. ✌

@@michaellevine2566 I got a thing for a fancy prose, but I'll keep it down to 2 "syllab's" per word. We'll agree on the left and right factions, yes? Blue and red states? Of course Durant can't travel to the past and address the crowds (I assume that's what you meant. The scene from the Book Of Mormon where Christ appears to be Western Hemisphere civilizations comes to mind.) Short and sweet, Durant isn't a firebrand. He tries to reconcile. He isn't of the gun nut faction. Nor a critical theory shill. I was drawn to this passage of his (pardon lengthy quote from Wikipedia article) "On decline and rebuilding of civilizations "Much like Oswald Spengler, he saw the decline of a civilization as a culmination of strife between religion and secular intellectualism, thus toppling the precarious institutions of convention and morality: "Hence a certain tension between religion and society marks the higher stages of every civilization. Religion begins by offering magical aid to harassed and bewildered men; it culminates by giving to a people that unity of morals and belief which seems so favorable to statesmanship and art; it ends by fighting suicidally in the lost cause of the past. For as knowledge grows or alters continually, it clashes with mythology and theology, which change with geological leisureliness. Priestly control of arts and letters is then felt as a galling shackle or hateful barrier, and intellectual history takes on the character of a "conflict between science and religion." Institutions which were at first in the hands of the clergy, like law and punishment, education and morals, marriage and divorce, tend to escape from ecclesiastical control, and become secular, perhaps profane. The intellectual classes abandon the ancient theology and-after some hesitation-the moral code allied with it; literature and philosophy become anticlerical. The movement of liberation rises to an exuberant worship of reason, and falls to a paralyzing disillusionment with every dogma and every idea. Conduct, deprived of its religious supports, deteriorates into epicurean chaos; and life itself, shorn of consoling faith, becomes a burden alike to conscious poverty and to weary wealth. In the end a society and its religion tend to fall together, like body and soul, in a harmonious death. Meanwhile among the oppressed another myth arises, gives new form to human hope, new courage to human effort, and after centuries of chaos builds another civilization."

@@michaellevine2566 Forget the 2 syllable limit. Durant is a popularizer. He makes history fascinating. In The Story Of Philosophy, he makes people like Kant and Spinoza both understandable and appealing.

@@wrybreadspread Absolutely no need to change your form on my account. I just don't think your grandiloquence is very effective on a KZfaq comment thread, n'est-ce pas?

@@wrybreadspread kind of like performing Mass in local language instead of Latin. So it doesn't all sound like "Greek to me" ✌👊 Peace

47:11 "art he said (Leonardo de Vinci) lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution, this was labor for lesser minds."

Rights or rites?

I knew one would pop up in this comment section.

You're very honest with yourself. Congratulations. Many of us might squander infinitely less time if we could be aware of how much we did just 'to be able to say so'.

@@DurantandFriends - You are a star.

Rocky C Thank you!

Rocky C hopefully it’s not actual AIDS!

Rocky - wish you would tell your fans where, when and why your interest in Durant began . . . and what motivated you to share it. The effort you must put into this isn't negligible and no doubt has infected many others with your own 'Durantian Disease'.

Thank you, Rocky, for your answers and for identifying the 'voice' in the post scriptum message below.

Years ago I knew an older lady, Mary Atkins, who told me she lived beside the Durants in California. I don't think she was bragging because the subject matter that led to our friendship and a long correspondence was history of a very different kind. It is curious how we can associate recording voices in such a way that they replace the 'originals' in our own minds, no doubt because they are trained & talented speakers while the 'originals' were not. An example and an exception of sorts, of this kind might be M.L. Cohen's reading of Henry Lewis Mencken's 'In Defense of Women', which can be found at Librivox. It is almost impossible for me to imagine he's not Mencken, even though I have heard a recording of Mencken's voice. Cohen, who is probably not a professional reader, is a real pleasure listen to. librivox.org/in-defense-of-women-by-hl-mencken/ Mencken's book might be too controversial for you to present but then the reaction & commentary on your message board would be rich. I have urged it on both women and men but have consistently run into strong resistance from both sexes. Men cannot easily get past the 1st chapter while most women love the first chapter, start to get wary with the second and probably don't ever finish the third. What a pity ! He has an excellent sense of humour, draws much of his inspiration from the philosophers you yourself have uploaded readings about, and his 1918-1920's predictions proved completely accurate by the end of the century. The issues he was raising way back then are very current today - proving that the play never changes . . . only the actors do.

Rocky + I add my sincere thanks for uploading these Durant videos. I came across The Story of Philosophy back in the '60s as a teenager, and when my Dad impatiently asked me what I was "going to be" as an adult, I told him, "a philosopher." That went well? : )

No, he doesn't. The same clear, decisive delivery, perhaps - but hardly the same sound.

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