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Monday July 27, 2015
Visions of Fire, Part 1
Ideas about fire, domesticated and wild, past and present, bringer of life and death and life again. Exceedingly rare in some places and times, fire appears in the mind as a deity: the blazing Shiva, the glowing Vesta, the burning bush. Every living creature depends on fire. And though fire spread civilization through the world, combustion now seems to signal... ruin.
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Monday August 10, 2015
Lecture 2 - The Glory that was Greece
In ancient Greece, the great general Pericles set the stage for a new idea in the world: democracy, and its necessary inhabitant, the citizen. Greek society was far from the democratic ideals of today -- there were profound class restrictions around who could be a citizen -- but many of the ideals of that time do hold true today.
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Lecture 2 - The Glory that was Greece
In ancient Greece, the great general Pericles set the stage for a new idea in the world: democracy, and its necessary inhabitant, the citizen. Greek society was far from the democratic ideals of today -- there were profound class restrictions around who could be a citizen -- but many of the ideals of that time do hold true today. More
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Monday August 10, 2015
Lecture 2 - The Glory that was Greece
In ancient Greece, the great general Pericles set the stage for a new idea in the world: democracy, and its necessary inhabitant, the citizen. Greek society was far from the democratic ideals of today -- there were profound class restrictions around who could be a citizen -- but many of the ideals of that time do hold true today.
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