TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fears,J.Rufus
ED  - Teaching Company
TI  - Life lessons from the great books
T2  - The great courses
SN  - 1598035185
AV  - LB 14.6 F288l 2009
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Chantilly, Va.
PB  - Teaching Co.
KW  - Education.
KW  - Teaching
KW  - Educación
KW  - Enseñanza
KW  - Literatura
KW  - Filosofía en la literatura
N1  - Course no. 2180; "Lecture transcript and course guidebook"--Cover; v. 1. Lecture 1. Seneca, On providence ; Lecture 2. The gospel of John ; Lecture 3. Boethius/Martin Luther King/Conscience ; Lecture 4. Dostoevsky, The brothers Karamazov ; Lecture 5. Elie Wiesel, Night -- Lecture 6. Schweitzer, Out of my life and thought ; Lecture 7. Goethe, The sufferings of young Werther ; Lecture 8. Shakespeare, Hamlet ; Lecture 9. Sophocles, Ajax ; Lecture 10. Plato, Epistle VII ; Lecture 11. Cicero, On old age ; Lecture 12. Isaac Bashevis singer, The penitent. v.2. Lecture 13. Euripides, Alcestis ; Lecture 14. Euripides, Medea ; Lecture 15. Von Strasburg, Tristan and Isolde ; Lecture 16. Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra ; Lecture 17. Shakespeare, Macbeth ; Lecture 18. Aldous Huxley, Brave new world ; Lecture 19. Homer, Odyssey ; Lecture 20. Sophocles, Philoctetes ; Lecture 21. The song of Roland, chivalric adventure ; Lecture 22. Nibelungenlied, chivalric romance ; Lecture 23. Lewis and Clark, journals ; Lecture 24. T.E. Lawrence, Seven pillars of wisdom. v. 3. Lectures 25. Aristophanes, comedies ; Lecture 26. Menaner, The grouch ; Lecture 27. Machiavelli, La mandragola ; Lecture 28. Erasmus, In praise of folly ; Lecture 29. Thomas More, Utopia ; Lecture 30. George Orwell, Animal farm ; Lecture 31. Josephus, History of the Jewish War ; Lecture 32. Joseph Addison, Cato ; Lecture 33. George Washington, farewell address ; Lecture 34. Abraham Lincoln, George Patton, war ; Lecture 35. Theodore Roosevelt, an autobiography ; Lecture 36. The wisdom of great books
N2  - 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
ER  -