Life lessons from the great books

✍ Scribed by Fears, J. Rufus

• Publisher: Teaching Company
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 85
• Series: Great courses (DVD). Literature & language. English literature
• Edition: [PDF workbook version]
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This course explores six themes that every one of us has experienced or will experience: the unconquerable human spirit; youth, old age, and all that is between; romance and love; adventure and courage; laughter and irony; and patriotism.

Abstract: This course explores six themes that every one of us has experienced or will experience: the unconquerable human spirit; youth, old age, and all that is between; romance and love; adventure and courage; laughter and irony; and patriotism

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Seneca: On providence --
The gospel of John --
Boethius/Martin Luther King/Conscience --
Dostoevsky: The brothers Karamazov --
Elie Wiesel: Night --
Schweitzer: Out of my life and thought --
Goethe: The sufferings of young Werther --
Shakespeare: Hamlet --
Sophocles: Ajax --
Plato: Epistle VII --
Cicero: On old age --
Isaac Bashevis singer: The penitent --
Euripides: Alcestis --
Euripides: Medea --
Von Strasburg: Tristan and Isolde --
Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra --
Shakespeare: Macbeth --
Aldous Huxley: Brave new world --
Homer: Odyssey --
Sophocles: Philoctetes --
The song of Roland: chivalric adventure --
Nibelungenlied: chivalric romance --
Lewis and Clark: journals --
T.E. Lawrence: Seven pillars of wisdom --
Aristophanes: comedies --
Menaner: The grouch --
Machiavelli, La mandragola --
Erasmus, In praise of folly --
Thomas More: Utopia --
George Orwell: Animal farm --
Josephus: History of the Jewish War --
Joseph Addison: Cato --
George Washington, farewell address --
Abraham Lincoln, George Patton, war --
Theodore Roosevelt, an autobiography --
The wisdom of great books.

✦ Subjects

Literature.;Philosophy in literature.