Arnold Toynbee lecturing at UCLA 4/1/1963

[@LaszloRadanyi-sp7ib]

Thank you for uploading!

[@UCLADrasninArchive]

Our pleasure!

[@m.k.muhammedfazil2675]

I am a history student from Kerala state of India and I have heard a lot about him and I read his books too.This interview was done in 1963 after 59 years() this 2000 22 special thanks for uploading on KZbin.

[@AxmedBahjad]

It's a great lecture by Arnold Toynbee. If you're interested in history and human civilisation, you must listen to it. It's gold 1 hour lecture. Thank you for uploading. You should upload similar old school lectures.

[@Gorboduc]

Lecture starts at 8:38.

[@williamneumyer7147]

Exactly. The usual sententiousness from the dean or the chairman or president to sit through before hearing what you came for.

[@giovannimalanchini1761]

Thank you for sharing.

[@justynafitesta8363]

100% relevant in our times. It is a delight to listen to this lecture.

[@learnlaw1363]

In Russia we study in law schools his approach to classifying countries/states into civilisations. I wonder do students in Europe study Toynbee’s work for their laws schools?

[@ryan.1990]

We don't, nothing like it, unfortunately

[@ponceperales1041]

Arnold Toynbee was almost 74 years old. President Kennedy’d go to Dallas, Texas that November. “Choice means responsibility.” [Today is January 24, 2021. 2.2 million+ have died due to Covid19; 417,000+ in the United States]

[@ponceperales1041]

“ In the Study Toynbee examined the rise and fall of 26 civilizations in the course of human history, and he concluded that they rose by responding successfully to challenges under the leadership of creative minorities composed of elite leaders. Civilizations declined when their leaders stopped responding creatively, and the civilizations then sank owing to the sins of nationalism, militarism, and the tyranny of a despotic minority. Unlike Spengler in his Toynbee did not regard the death of a civilization as inevitable, for it may or may not continue to respond to successive challenges. Unlike Karl Marx, he saw history as shaped by spiritual, not economic forces.” Britannica Encyclopedia

[@jesus_saves_from_hell_]

Grace and peace! ✌😎✌

[@thomasjamison2050]

Yes, the balance Sheet of history. And on that balance sheet, Arnold's own country is now deep in the red after once having been at the top of the sheet. Arnold still struggles with that in his later years. He makes considerable progress, but the real answer, I think, eludes him. That is not a surprise. Going down is a very hard road. But one could argue that the great single power that once existed as centered on the Eastern Atlantic has really only shifted westward a few thousand miles, but it has also changed a great deal though it too is not without some of the same serious cultural faults and problems that caused the downfall of the first.

[@DF-ss5ep]

HG Wells, Bellamy, and Orwell? One of those is not like the others

[@fhoofe3245]

he talks for almost an hour, yet doesn't actually say anything actionable. how do Roman troops, worshipping foreign war gods, have anything to do with modern "church-militants" exactly?

[@giggletushjr]

Read the first chapter of Oswald Spengler's book.

[@tulayamalavenapi4028]

🙏🏻

[@rocantenrocanten4150]

ничего нового

[@mrkhamplex]

He's nothing but a cheerleader for the New World Global Community.

[@alexandermartirosyan3406]

Pretty vague and hardly relevant to anything whatsoever. A good example how to talk for an hour and say nothing. Although, it is probable that his ideas are so deep that I just can't fathom what he could possibly mean.

[@equalmeasurements923]

The latter, is your answer.

[@tomlaureys1734]

The former is your answer.