Will Durant---The Lessons of History

Will and Ariel Durant---The Lessons of History
Join the renowned historians Will and Ariel Durant on a thought-provoking journey through the pages of their seminal work, "The Lessons of History." In this enlightening video, explore the enduring insights and wisdom distilled from centuries of human experience as the Durants examine the patterns and lessons of history.
📜 Explore the following key aspects in this profound exploration:
The purpose and significance of studying history in the modern world
A deep dive into the lessons drawn from various epochs and civilizations
The role of biology, economics, and morality in shaping the course of history
The patterns of rise and fall among empires and nations
The challenges and opportunities faced by humanity in an ever-changing world
The Durants' thoughts on the enduring relevance of history in understanding the present and shaping the future

[@darrengagliardi1540]

Durant's ability to condense vast amounts of information so concisely and beautifully is an absolute wonder. I often have to pause after reading or hearing a passage written by Durant just to marvel at the writing. With The Lessons of History, I have to pause constantly. I can hardly imagine, but greatly appreciate, the effort required to craft such economical sentences and paragraphs.

[@DurantandFriends]

Will Durant, in my opinion, is an under appreciated philosopher. Academics may disagree with that statement in some sort of defence that the value of Will Durant's scholarship is fully "accounted" for in the acadamia, howeveer, the publi doesn't think of Will Durant when they think of a philosopher. Perhaps his work on 'The Story of Civilization' eclipses his persona. I see value in his legacy as a philosopher, for example, Durant "believes that epistemology has kidnapped modern philosophy, and well nigh ruined it; ... the time when the study of the knowledge-process will be recognized as the business of the science of psychology, and when philosophy will again be understood as the synthetic interpretation of all experience rather than the analytic description of the mode and process of experience itself. Analysis belongs to science, and gives us knowledge; philosophy must provide a synthesis for wisdom." (Durant, 1926, Preface)

[@El_Cid-40]

A manuscript peppered with heritage gemstones! A coherent, tasteful , and stylish accounting of historical lessons.

[@DurantandFriends]

Thank you, Sir, for the kind words.

[@josephbourque5027]

Here is a man and his wife who did not waste their time on earth. Anyone seeking a well rounded education would be wise to listen to these words and read their many books.

[@not2tees]

So true. It might well be today though, that Will would have to dodge pedophilia charges, as Ariel was so radically young and much younger in relative age to him. But he probably needed her as she did him and the two added up to a pair of inestimable value, I would say.

[@aneesmehmood8899]

Joseph Bourque t

[@JC-xc8rx]

Thanks, I will

[@lawrence9506]

not2tees Not many people bring up their marriage which would be illegal and scandalous pedophilia today. Being historians they knew it used to be common.

[@idcook]

Useful but presumptuous, elitist, romantic, misdirecting and faulty. One must turn to other sources to find the truths that precede and underpin all they offer.

I've been reading Will's History of Civilization for 43 years. It never gets boring and there isn't another historian I have greater respect for than Will and Ariel.

[@johnmiller7453]

Mike you must be really really old.

[@Oners82]

@@ScientologyDirect The book is just pseudoscientific nonsense. And the word "cult" has a very specific meaning, and Scientology is most definitely a cult.

[@Oners82]

@@DurantandFriends If you look at the technical definition of cult then Christianity does not fit the definition, but scientology does.

[@Oners82]

@@DurantandFriends That is not from Google dictionary, it is from the Oxford dictionary (sorry about the pedantry). But don't you think you should delve a little bit deeper than a dictionary definition if you want to truly understand the difference (especially considering that most dictionaries disagree with the Oxford definition)? Just to highlight a few: Religions openly advertise their belief system, cults do not. Religions give money to benefit society, cults do not. Cults often forbid access to outside information, religions do not (outside of extremist religious sects). There are many differences between the two that are widely recognised by scholars, so perhaps a little research beyond an unnuanced dictionary definition might be wise. And just for the record, I am an atheist so I am not defending religion here, I am just pointing out that there is a very real difference between the two phenomena as they are categorised differently by social scientists and anthropologists. P.S. Great channel, love the Durant audiobooks, thanks :)

[@drudown76]

you cant spell culture without cult

[@dinocardamone-sg1ph]

Absolutely wonderful...should be required reading and study for all Earthlings.

[@DurantandFriends]

Thank you for the kind words, its what motivates our team to produce more content. I urge you to considering joining the channel to show your support and develop deeper connections with the community.

[@nat.serrano]

This book is a MASTERPIECE. I could write 1 book of each paragraph. It destroyed some of my ideas, it’s one of those books that makes you THINK

[@petestronach4949]

i bloody love it when someone finds themselves a Masterpiece, good mojo

[@tezzmanss1812]

If reading a book doesn't make u think, you probably aren't reading...I understand what you mean though my friend..

[@nat.serrano]

@@tezzmanss1812 Currently reading The Story of civilization by the same author, some powerful insights, why are these books out of print????

[@tezzmanss1812]

@@nat.serrano indoctrination I suspect

[@nat.serrano]

@@tezzmanss1812 I suspect the same

[@garanglester]

In ever word, in every sentence, in every paragraph and in every page if this book, wisdom flows.❤

[@cooldud1988]

Listening to this great audiobook whilst working such a blissful time to live 😊

[@Rackatiakka]

No kidding

[@elijahthomas8012]

I am 15 and love Will Durant's work. I just ordered his book The Greatest Minds and Ideas of all time

[@auntiecarol]

I hope that you are still reading at 45!

[@dorianweng8903]

Hey, in case you want to read more of his, I highly recommend The Story of Civilisation. I believe it's beneficial for anyone seeking grounded understanding of our world, and this set of book might help, a lot.

[@jeanlenor1858]

But, your only 15

[@benmac1089]

@@jeanlenor1858 I was 14 and I decided to read the entire bible. Let people be precocious.

[@MrBetrue]

You're four years older, still working on your enlightenment? I hope so ✌😏

[@christopherarmstrong2710]

3:00 "Most history is guessing, and the rest is prejudice." 5:00 "Historiography cannot be a science, it can only be an industry, an art, and a philosophy." 6:07 "In history, as in science and politics, relativity rules; and all formulas should be suspect." 14:33 "History is a fragment of biology." 15:44 "We are subject to the processes and trials of evolution. To the struggle for existence, and the survival of the fittest to survive. So, *the first biological lesson from history is that life is competition.* Competition is not only the life of trade, it is the trade of life. Peaceful when the food abounds, violent when the mouths outrun the food. *Animals eat one other without qualm, civilized men consume one another by due process of law.* Cooperation is real and increases with social development, but mostly because it is a tool and form of competition." 17:27 "War is a nation's way of eating. It promotes cooperation because it is the ultimate form of competition." 17:48 "The second biological lesson of history is that life is selection. In the competition for food, or mates, or power, some organisms succeed and others fail...Nature loves difference as the necessary material of selection and evolution." 18:53 "Inequality is not only natural and inborn, it grows with the complexity of civilization." 20:00 ?? "He who is aware of superiority wants freedom." 21:00 ?? Forms of population control. 22:45 "Equilibrium where production meets consumption." 23:00 "Ideally, parenting should be a product of health, not a by-product of sexual agitation." 26:00 Birth rates and birth control. 30:48 "Only those that are the product of such enfeebling mixtures talk about the equality of races, or think that all men are brothers. All strong characters and peoples are race conscious and are instinctively averse to marry outside of their own racial group." 36:20 Scholars cherry-picking research based on their own biases. History is colorblind. 49:40 "Social institutions are the product of centuries of generations of experiment in the laboratory of history." 49:50 A youth boiling with hormones will wonder why he should not give full freedom to his sexual desires, and if he is unchecked by custom, morals or laws, he may ruin his life before he matures enough to understand that sex is a river of fire that must be banked and cooled by a hundred restraints if it is not to consume in chaos both the individual and the group. So, the conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it. This is the trial heat that innovations must survive to enter the human race. ( *The Lindy Effect - Antifragile* ) 50:50 It is good that the old should resist the young, and that the young should prod the old. Out of this tension comes a *creative tensile strength, of stimulated development, a secret and basic basic unity, a movement of the whole.* 52:06 Economic history divided into three stages: 1) Hunting 2) Agriculture 3) Industry. The moral code of one stage maybe changed in the next. 52:30 Insecurity is the mother of greed. 53:14 Man’s sins maybe the relics of his rise, rather than the stigmata of his fall. 53:40 Peace more victorious than war. Children were economic assets; birth control was made immoral. On the farm, the family was the unit of production under the discipline of the father and the seasons. 56:10 “The authority of father and mother lost its economic base to the growing individualism of industry.” 1:01:40 Our time is a transition of a moral code that has lost its agricultural basis and into an industrial one. 1:03:20 Much of our new moral freedom is good 1:04:30 “Religion has kept the poor from murdering the rich. Since the natural inequality of men dooms many of us to poverty or defeat. Some supernatural hope maybe the sole alternative to despair. Destroy that hope, and class war is intensified. Heaven and utopia are buckets in a well - when one goes down the other goes up. When religion declines, communism grows.” 1:07:30 Corrupt medieval Catholic Church 1:10:50 History remains at bottom a natural selection of the fittest individuals and groups in a struggle wherein goodness receives no favors, misfortunes abound, and the final test is the ability to survive. 1:16:30 Education and colleges 17:55 Catholicism survives because it appeals to the imagination, hope and to the senses. Because its mythology brightens and consoles the lives of the poor. 1:22:45 There is no significant example in history before our time of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the age of religion. Even if totally divorced from the State, the church helps in keeping social order. In communist regimes, communism becomes the new religion or ‘opium’ in replacing the church in comforting the people and hope. 1:23:30 If the socialist should fail to destroy relative poverty among the masses, this new religion may lose its fervor and efficacy. The State may wink at the restoration of supernatural beliefs as an aid in quieting discontent. As long as there is poverty, there will be gods. 1:28:25 Agriculture becomes an industry, and soon the farmer must choose whether to be an employee of the capitalist, and being the employee of a State. 1:28:47 *At the other end of the scale, history reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things. And the man who can manage money manage all.* Financiers and bankers rise to the top of the economic chain, financing wars and popes, and occasionally sparking revolutions. 1:29:45 Every economic system must sooner or rely on the profit motive to stir individuals and groups to productivity. Normally and generally, men are ranked on their ability to produce (except in war, where they are ranked on their ability to destroy). Since practical ability differs from person to person the majority of such abilities in all societies is gathered in a minority of men. The concentration of wealth is a natural result of this concentration of ability, and regularly occurs in history. 1:36:23 We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable. And is periodically alleviated by peaceable or partial or piecable redistribution. * 1:37:00 The struggle of the capitalist and the socialist 1:42:00 Library of Alexandria, 230 BC 1:43:10 The State became a powerful employer, above the private industrialist who were crushed by taxation. 1:44:00 Regulation, taxation, and attempted tax evasion. Among this Medieval serfdom began. 1:48:45 Chinese corruption and bureaucracy. 1:53:40 Marx and Engels gave the Socialist movement its Magna Carta in *The Communist Manifesto,* and its Bible with *Das Kapital.* 1:55:40 Communism is a war economy. Survives through continued fear of war. Given a generation of peace it’s eroded by the nature of man. 1:56:30 The West’s synthesis of capitalism and socialism 1:57:38 Since men love freedom, and the freedom of individuals in society requires regulation of conduct, the first condition of freedom is its limitation. Make it absolute and it dies in chaos. So the prime task of government is to establish order. *Power naturally converges to a center, for it is ineffective when divided, diluted and spread as in Poland.* 2:02:00 It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized If the majority of abilities is contained in the minority of men, minority government is as Is inevitable as the concentration of wealth. 2:02:30 The aristocrat is the sanest alternative to selection by money or theology or violence. Trains them from birth for the tasks of government. Aristocracy is a nursery of statesmanship. Aristocracies have rarely produced art. The aristocrat looks upon artists as manual laborers. He prefers the art of life rather than the life of art. The result has been a lifelong holiday and hedonism. The Privileges of place are enjoyed by the fool, and the responsibilities are ignored. Hence the decays of aristocracies. 2:06:30 Violent revolutions do not so much redistribute wealth as destroy it. The natural inequality of man soon creates an inequality of possessions and privileges. Raises to power a new minority with essentially the same instincts as the old. *The only REAL revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character. The only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionists are philosophers and saints.* 2:11:00 The old don’t like to be thought morose and authoritative, and therefore they immigrate the young. 2:19:38 *Every advance in the complexity of the economy puts an added premium upon superior ability and intensifies the concentration of wealth, responsibility and political power.* 2:19:50 Democracy is the most complicated of all forms of government, as it requires the widest spread of intelligence. 2:33:00 USA / China relations. "Let us refuse to make 100 Hiroshimas in China...We are not afraid that your economic system will displace ours, nor need you fear that ours will displace yours. We believe that each system will learn from each other and will be able to live with it in cooperation and peace." 2:43:17 “In organic periods men are busy building. In critical periods they are busy destroying.” 2:56:13 That science is neutral is delusional. It will kill for us as quickly as it will heal. And it will destroy for us more readily than it can build.

[@noahway13]

The comment at two thirty three is still up in the air. = )

[@noahway13]

Two 43 Is only one I have a legit critique on. In critical times (war) people are MORE busy building, But they are building war machines, like tanks, radar, sonar, and atomic bomb.

[@christopherarmstrong2710]

@@noahway13 Two 43? Which one is that, exactly?

[@christopherarmstrong2710]

@@noahway13 Yes, USA & China is a very complex issue. But any trade is better than no trade, IMO. Peaceful trade has been the only system that has contributed to more peace and prosperity than any other system throughout the history mankind. Competition is hashed out in the markets, rather than by shedding blood on the battlefield. The only caveat is how to make that trade as fair and honest as possible - since we all know which side has been making out like a bandit over the last three decades. Globalization and the internet has definitely changed the game since the publishing of this book, and was not experienced in Will Durant’s lifetime - so it’s always curious to question if an author would take the same stance given the current radical change the internet and global connectivity has brought about.

[@noahway13]

@@christopherarmstrong2710 I forgot what i was talking about. Think I meant 2:43 in video.

[@katien1684]

It is no wonder that Will Durant won the Nobel prize for literature..his work encompasses one half century..50 years guys!! Also the person responsible "ROCKY" DESERVES allaclades for the manner with which Durrants work is presented in audio form. We thank you ROCKY

[@jimmaughan1898]

He won the Pulitzer and others, but thanks for sending me over to Wikipedia. I learned a lot more about him and Ariel. Read his SoC while recovering from an illness in my early teens. Loved them. There is audio of Winston Churchill's History of the Second World War on KZbin if you're interested and still around after a year.

[@rickiandavis]

guessin' some one copy right struck Rocky C, hence Durant and friends

[@DirectorDebutOfficial]

43:37 Character and History 51:14 Morals and History 1:03:40 Religon and History 1:24:00 Economics and History 1:36:51 Socialism and History 1:57:33 Government and History 2:24:40 History and War

[@BluEN1111]

thank you sir!

[@Jinka1950]

Thank you for your kind gesture.

[@rocky5152]

Thank you so much for the breakdown! I wish all audiobooks had your kind directive.

[@ImranSahir1]

Chapter XII. Growth and Decay 2:37:36 Chapter XIII. Is Progress Real? 2:55:28

[@jibraeelawan2191]

W MANS

[@kenthomas856]

Such a treasure of knowledge.

[@yanxinniu6677]

Loved reading the books many years ago, a high school history nerd. Loved learning about past cultures and minds. Great to come across the audio books. Amazing how one could produce such vast nonfiction literature.

[@artofmusic303]

This enlightening and provocative book could only have been produced by a curious and diligent generalist like Will Durant. There is much wisdom here.

[@climatedeceptionnetwork4122]

How lucky we are to have this treat, thanks to Rocky C, KZbin, and the Durants!

[@clydenolet736]

Great narrator. Picked up all 11 volumes of "a story of civilization"

[@tiamatxvxianash9202]

Yet another Durant presentation that I'll be listening to again and again and again...

[@DurantandFriends]

#metoo

[@SgtFoster]

This is fantastic! Great book by a great writer read by a great narrator!

[@AL_THOMAS_777]

Someone said: "Will Durant's books are a great meeting between history and literature. They are not only enlightening but delightful for their style and wit." Well . . . I´ve just ordered some books 🙌 👏 🙏

[@michaelhaag3367]

I simply love Will Durant (and the voice of the reader - an amazing fit!)

[@YawehthedragondogofEL]

Thanks for posting. This book, in it's quiet unassuming way, is one of the most potent little works of all time. It will be the last book ever read by a man.

[@ronaldvronca8999]

What history teaches us, is not to believe all you hear and little of what you read.

[@unfortunatebeam]

A lot of the things in this book are relevant today.

[@MichaelFlenderson]

that's because history repeats itself

[@okra7648]

''What history has to say about the nature, conduct and prospects of man, it is a precarious enterprise and only a fool would try to compress a hundred centuries into a hundred pages of hazardous conclusions. We proceed'' Haha brilliant.

[@panchovilla8437]

Wow Okra, is bulling on my discovery. Code of conduct canon law [cc] all rights reserved. Discovered nov. 13 2021.

[@davidhorn2248]

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[@davidhorn2248]

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[@davidhorn2248]

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[@mehdidashti5600]

Salç

[@knowledgeseeker4116]

The late Jim Rohn motivated me to give this a listen and I will leave you with one of his greatest quotes " Dont wish it was easy, wish you were better" 🙏 👍 💪 Much respect.

[@Aaron-kr5ty]

"Don't wish it were easier.... Wish you were BEEETTER.." - JR

[@aaronkidd9383]

This book blew my mind. An excellent investment of 3 hours.

[@eugenezoica9476]

Great presentation. Thanks for the upload!

[@Avicena-tf5uj]

3 minutes in and I know this will be one of the best books I've come across

[@giuseppevianello9288]

Brilliant analysis! Thanks.

[@JosephDuvernay]

Most Appreciated and extremely Useful! Thank you Rocky C! Such a wonderful Voice (meaning Ideas) and Education!

[@danieljakubik3428]

Highly interesting and wide ranging in philosophical approach!

[@drudown76]

thank you for this upload.

[@asoulist4829]

0:00 Preface from Will and Ariel Durant 1:23 Chapter 1. Hesitations 7:29 Chapter 2. History and the Earth 14:27 Chapter 3. Biology and History 28:20 Chapter 4. Race and History 43:34 Chapter 5. Character and History 51:10 Chapter 6. Morals and History 1:03:42 Chapter 7. Religion and History 1:23:53 Chapter 8. Economics and History 1:36:50 Chapter 9. Socialism and History 1:57:19 Chapter 10. Government and History 2:24:37 Chapter 11. History and War 2:37:35 Chapter 12. Growth and decay 2:55:30 Chapter 13. Is progress real?

[@brettrinker979]

Thank you for this presentation of the Durant's book. Choice of narration is "spot on". But! "I", personally was/am? able to immerse in "reading" the book itself. So wonderfully spoken that it bears repetitive reading in MANY instances, and 1 can ONLY do that with a Book. Not an easy book to find either. I actually keep it, the book on my coffee, dining, mind meandering "nook". Anyhow thanks! Brett 👋😎

[@sanghoonlee5171]

Will Durant's books are a great meeting between history and literature. They are not only enlightening but delightful for their style and wit.

[@johnblowmoney7128]

I found Will Durant today in the search for knowledge on the subject of envy. A quote by Durant intrigued me " To speak I'll of others is a dishonest way of pleasing ourselves". We are what we repeatedly do excellence then is not an act but a habit" .was the icing on the cake.

[@70galaxie]

google or ms keyboard? Fixed ill to I'll : )

[@asoulist4829]

The last minutes are sublime! Really shows the amazing endowment of studying history!

[@DurantandFriends]

Alright, I will bight, I relistened to the last six minutes (kzbin.info/www/bejne/m5-tg3yaort7iKcsi=6ccEECuBJEFxtIcI&t=11160). You are correct, @asoulist4829 Durant is a master.

[@rjones83061]

Thank you for all Durant uploads Rocky C...........loved them all.

[@nevuejohn]

Thank you, Will Durant, for ALL the great audio books you've provided!!! And thanks to those who have taken the time to post! I can find a lot in this one to apply to our present conditions, as if I where watching it all go down today.....

[@elbiofuscaldo9975]

One of my favorite books. Thea has how the worl really work

[@manamsetty2664]

My life felt incomplete until I heard about Durant

[@missmiss6969]

I’m thankful to see this,how ever, it is because of the different cultures different believes what keeps humanity divided,have never been able to find peace ☮️ to live together as one human for 40 thousand years, but lost so many lives, not enough stars in the skies to count the life in human history Thank you

[@RajuGogul]

His thoughts are everywhere ..omnipresent..while I dare to disagree some, I deeply respect this GREAT MAN whom our next genberations to study at least for one year - every day - makes a different person altogether. Rocky, Thank you, what else, we netizens can?

[@LittleMew133]

Every vice was a virtue. Well said.

[@manikdesign]

Your time listening is well invested my dear friends, since time is your most valuable asset.

[@vigilant545]

Listend it till the end. Now I'm a better man

[@najlaealae7078]

Congratulations / am at the starting point of reading it

[@moufidaamen6159]

thank you for posting this content

[@charlesdan5509]

Great material for the self taught geniuses of The word like me.....

[@AdrianWyrzykowski]

thanks for the upload!

[@asoulist4829]

Let us surpass our heroes and set a new, higher, and better standard for humanity!

[@AxmedBahjad]

Listen with care to this audiobook, but still rely on your own thinking and make up your mind! Take what is true and leave what isn't.

[@DirectorDebutOfficial]

+Axmed Bahjad unless ur stupid. You don't know how to think lol

[@JB-uv4hm]

Of course you know what is true.

[@DrummerJacob]

@@JB-uv4hm What's your point other than to sarcastically show the passive aggressive way you ineffectively communicate your ideas?

[@JB-uv4hm]

@@DrummerJacob do you know the Durant’s history? They spent 40 plus years researching, traveling the world and writing. I’ll take that as a more solid historiographical foundation than a couple of YT dbags.

[@pukel95]

​@JB-uv4hm I was inspired by this book to study history at the University. Now 5 years later I came back to this book to find all sorts of mistakes and thinking errors. The Durants were active in the early/mid twentieth century and thus were still bound to overlook some of the basic assumptions and analytical tools that are considered conventional at this time and age. Some of their ideas are, as an single example, to be considered modernistic by nature. Look at their conclusion that there is an increasing trend in which governments tend to fuse both capitalistic and socialistic elements in their policy. This "may" have had some sort of truths to it, but nowadays no historian wouldn"t downright dare to utter such claims witnessing the neoliberal trends of the late twentieth century. Another problem is the format of this book. The Durants wisely call their endeavour a foulish one at the introduction of the book. As a layman you take this for granted and continue to be fascinated by the share amount of their combined knowledge. But after reading countless of articles and famous works of other historians, you"ll eventually acquire the necessary basis that is needed to see the defects and the holes in their narrative. EVERY work is open for critical counter weight. You can produce an all encompassing world history in 2023 and still get 100 points of critique if you put it in front of 100 students who are trained to analyticaly think about this subject. The Durants were wise, had an broad historical basis and could write in a very poetic manner, but Axmed is right when talking about being careful when reading this. Still love them though.

[@saturncomes]

Thx for the upload this is amazing. I would love to ask Durant what he had to say about there being far too much food of far too low a quality as there is today in the west.

[@JoshuaJamesWagoner]

Tai Lopez recommended this gem of a book to me. Like if Tai brought you to this or other great books!

[@sanarr1]

KNOWLEDGE

[@luvstarmusic2362]

Tai brought me to the attention of this and many other great life changing books.

[@oryou1142]

Jim Rohn first

[@puritywindowcleaning4665]

Jim Rohn is the one who recommends the book Tai is a scammer

[@Oners82]

Joshua James Tai Lopez is a well known con artist mate.

[@shaiaheyes2c41]

Thank you!❤❤❤

[@selmir369]

"Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias.For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies. Leave men free, and their natural inequalities will multiply almost geometrically, as in England and America in the nineteenth century under laissez-faire.To check the growth of inequality, liberty must be sacrificed,as in Russia after 1917. Even when repressed, inequality grows; only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom, and in the end superior ability has its way." by: Will Durant (1885-1981) American psychologist, philosopher

[@karnubawax]

A conservative is one who would rather be free in a land that is not equal, while a liberal is one who would be equal in a land that is not free.

[@chuck6033]

David Karner reductive and unimaginative. You lack vision and are still a slave.

[@selmir369]

..............................coin has two sides............. balance...........

[@rjones83061]

@@selmir369 most difficult to 'conquer' duality AKA self...... I am most impressed by attachment and the concurrent circular thinking pattern and the bellicosity that arises from duality

[@najlaealae7078]

Thank you teacher

[@jasonblack4208]

Thank you :)

[@lafayettemoreira4423]

I appreciate his/their history.

[@Whooptyloo]

Thank you for the narration

[@cecilija2028]

Thank you.

[@LuigiFontanaMDPhD]

This is a great book. A must read!

[@JB-uv4hm]

The Grover Gardner read version w editor John Little is the last revision and includes interviews w Durant.

[@Persondada]

Fantastic book. It helps me see what a disaster modern life is and totally blind to repeating the folly’s of the past.

[@DrummerJacob]

"this postlude needs little preface" That's when you know it's gonna be a good one...

[@DrummerJacob]

Indubitably, previous me.

[@maryannking5491]

One needs to study many, in order to find the threads of truth that draw all together. Henri Bergson, Rudolf Steiner, The Urantia Book, Bertrand Russell, Carl Yung....all from that period in time...all are great resources.

[@cutactiontake9]

The urantia book!

[@majesticsun3465]

Thank you for these suggestions, Mary Ann. I’ve made a note of them to include in my perpetual research as a student of life. 🙂

[@ruthnovena40]

esp; yung.

[@DaveyLers5150]

Thank you

[@quanghuynh9300]

1:25: Hesitation 7:30: History and the Earth 14:27: Biology and History 28:20: Race and History

[@quanghuynh9300]

Quang Huynh i'll updated when i have free time :D

[@quanghuynh9300]

i'll update it when i have free time :D

[@skyscout3]

are you free now? or dead?

[@DrummerJacob]

@@quanghuynh9300 you must be too busy. I guess I'll just watch the whole thing

[@rickiandavis]

would love to see comparative book addressing the durants' predictions

[@ivanbarbosa81]

congrats on your channel.thank you

[@GOBEF3]

dearest Rocky C, deep thanks for your great uploads :) But, since these are audios only, it would be really great if one could hear them on Podcast. much simpler than keeping full screen empty videos running (as often blocked)... kindly consider uploading all into a fresh Podcast ! ... thanks again.

[@GOBEF3]

@@DurantandFriends thanks again :) understood. I shall buy the books indeed. Cheers.

[@kellyannpage1469]

Thank yu x

[@dickpartridge333]

Some excellent content but I'm wondering what Mr. Durant would make of some of our present day Universities!!

[@dionmcgee5610]

We've become more intelligent and yet stupider at the same time. The love of money has not made us wiser.

[@NuurAbdiMahamud-rr1vu]

Will Durant done great work for humanity. I hope AI could read on other languages. So more will enjoy and enlighten

[@davidwilkie9551]

Thank you. This is the Origin of the concepts of Eras of a type of standing wave positioning properties of "civilization", in continuity and interpretating waves of mutual influence.., a constantly emerging and evolving here-now-forever that is the ever present pattern of temporal Superposition-point Singularity positioning by resonances.., in familiar terms and relationships. The concept of the Quantum Operator that is the natural occurring environment of probability in potential possibility, and that, in Principle, is the ultimate Neoteny.., "we are children", evolved of the Universal Hologram.

[@miwanwang4381]

good book, good reading aloud. It' be more convenient if the recording is divided into parts.

[@Rico-Suave_]

Such brilliant analysis on human civilization, note to self(nts) watched all of it again 3:12:40

[@DurantandFriends]

I wish I could give everyone a prize for listening to the entirity of these videos. Wait a minute... it's intrinsic. Go Durant go! Thank you for supporting this channel. You make it all worthwhile (and the algorythm love you too)!!

[@arunaelentari]

I love these videos but I wish the video titles included Ariel as well since she was involved in this work.

[@jfreeman2927]

@Wally Reyes your low IQ is showing. run! hide behind your whiteness, lol. read only Will Durant. he will keep you safe.

[@DrummerJacob]

The video title does include her name.

[@johnmiller7453]

to sum it up, Mr. Natural sez: "Twas ever thus"

[@justjoe942]

The truth is the truth and it never tires me.

[@Human_being631]

What truth do you mean?

[@slappy8941]

The only thing we learn from history, is that we don't learn from history. Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it, while those who do learn from history have to stand by and watch, helpless to stop the folly.

[@smroog]

EXCELLENT !!! anyway to add closed captions ???? Please my hearing is gone.

[@kevinnorkus1842]

Great Scholars, Teachers and Historical People! LOVE "THE BIBLE" !!

[@CM-qd6px]

Durant; Under rated; hugely / Rocky C; thank you

[@johnmitchell8925]

Very good

[@abdelazeezsobh6899]

The Durants masterpiece belongs to any home library and occupies a shelf in many The Lessons of History Book By Will Durant (PDF-Summary-Review-Online Reading-Download): www.toevolution.com/file/view/576955/the-lessons-of-history-book-by-will-durant-pdf-summary-review-online-reading-download

[@Robe_Hernandez]

Im here thanks to Jim Rohn

[@Saurischian]

Who the hell is that

[@ProjectRedfoot]

I found another great channel! (Cue Rocky theme)

[@noahway13]

Thank you for doing this. It is very concise and is a great learning aid when you follow along instead of just listening.

[@Dolakahnemblem]

Thany you sir for uploading this let me know where i can good free books online

[@FlipDahlenburg]

Skip this video completely, go to your local library and check out any one or more of Will Durant's books, written with the assistance of his wife, Ariel. You won't be sorry. They're so much better to read than to listen to this. They are captivating and real.

[@Randall2023]

Winnipeg Manitoba Canada 🇨🇦

[@chrisstein5128]

A daunting task and a good effort to try and understand and both quality and qualify who and what we were and how we got to where we are. The pen and the sword, the selfless visionary to the mere selfish recipient, who’s toil is his next gratification. Hard to not be cynical looking at our decay as access to knowledge multiplies and ignorance abounds. Plato yes

[@DurantandFriends]

It sounds to me that you can spin a phrase into a coherant idea. Please reach out if you would like to elevate your comment into a few articles on planksip.org. We would love to have your perspectives and pastiches.

[@charlesdan5509]

Tremendous work of erudite simplicity...... Min Charles Daniel coleman..❤️🙏🏿🔥

[@donmilland7606]

I'm vey upset because this is the first time I've heard of him and I always thought of myself as being somewhat (a modicum amount) of being well rounded. I've been a square all this time.

[@smylulula]

I know right! Now we get to share our enthuasiasm to people who we know will feel the same, I guess :p

[@70galaxie]

would love to here Dawkins, Dennett, Harris, C. Murray & D. Murray discuss this!!

[@shanosantwanos3908]

Lol..materialist nihlists/ atheists...who cares what they and their dying ideologies have to say...

[@danieljakubik3428]

First published during 1968 and winner of the Pulitzer Prize.

[@ssartre5240]

Podrían doblar sus videos al español por favor?

[@70galaxie]

Humbling

[@wieslaw54]

History is the collection of stories about events that did not happen, written by the people who weren't there...

[@DirectorDebutOfficial]

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