Three Great Greek Historians (MP3 download) Politics

Three Great Greek Historians (MP3 download) PoliticsBy John David Lewis The historical treatises of Herodotus, Thucydides and Polybius were magnificent feats of intellectual integration. Building on their predecessors, they wanted to understand the causes of great events in rational terms. Herodotus's focus on customs, Thucydides' concern for human nature and Polybius's stress on political constitutions give their works a timeless relevance. This course offers an introduction to several important ideas

Specifically

- Apollo 11

Attention is also paid to why Aristotle makes some  significant errors (such as endorsing slavery and denying that any virtue is involved in making money) and to the relationship between Aristotle's approach to ethics and Ayn Rand's

” that one’s choice to think or not is an act of free will

thanks to the brilliant leadership of Meg Whitman

Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life is a flux of events

Rand examines the evils of racism as embodied in ethnic politics

ad hominem

her first attempt at a systematic

has been a continual bestseller as well as an intellectual landmark

This talk was recorded at the 2002 Objectivist Summer Conference in Palo Alto

The logical validation of an objective standard of value (and the bridging of the "is-ought" chasm)