Will Durant (1885–1981)
Auteur de The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
A propos de l'auteur
Will Durant was born in North Adams, Massachusetts on November 5, 1885. He received an undergraduate degree at St. Peter's College in New Jersey and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia University. His first book, Philosophy and the Social Problem, was published in 1917. His other works include The afficher plus Story of Philosophy, The Mansions of Philosophy, and the ten-volume The Story of Civilization. By the time the seventh volume was published in 1961, his wife Ariel Durant was listed as a coauthor for her diligent assistance on the project. In 1968 they received the Pulitzer Prize for Rousseau and Revolution. The husband and wife team also wrote A Dual Autobiography in 1977. He died on November 7, 1981. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
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Séries
Œuvres de Will Durant
The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers (1926) — Auteur — 4,304 exemplaires
Interpretations of Life: A Survey of Contemporary Literature: The Lives and Opinions of Some Major Authors of Our Time (1970) 85 exemplaires
The Story of Philosophy, Vol. 2: From Kant to William James and the American Pragmatists (2001) 33 exemplaires
The Story of Philosophy, Vol. 1: From Plato to Voltaire and the French Enlightenment (2004) 31 exemplaires
histoire de la civilisation, notre héritage oriental II, la judée, la perse, l'inde, tome 2 (1935) 18 exemplaires
Histoire De La Civilisation (Notre Heritage oriental I ) Les Origines Sumer L'Egypte La Babylonie L'Assyrie (French… (1935) 15 exemplaires
The foundations of civilization 10 exemplaires
The Story of Philosophy, Volume 1: From Plato to Bacon 10 exemplaires
HISTOIRE DE LA CIVILISATION - Tome VII - César et Le Christ 6 Rome les origines La république (1944) 7 exemplaires
Histoire de la civilisation IV - La vie de la Grèce - Le monde Egéen - La Grèce archaïque (1939) 6 exemplaires
100 best books for an education 5 exemplaires
HISTOIRE DE LA CIVILISATION - Tome VIII - César et Le Christ - Rome le principat (1944) 5 exemplaires
HISTOIRE DE LA CIVILISATION- Tome XXXII ROUSSEAU ET LA RÉVOLUTION - L'Angleterre de Johnson. L'écroulement de la… (1967) 5 exemplaires
HISTOIRE DE LA CIVILISATION - Tome VI - La vie de la Grèce III. Déclin et Ruine de la liberté (1939) 4 exemplaires
The Age of Voltaire: Part 3 - The Advancement of Learning, The Attack on Christianity (1965) 4 exemplaires
The Story of Philosophy, Updated and Revised: The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers from Ptahhotep to… (2020) 4 exemplaires
HISTOIRE DE LA CIVILISATION - Tome XXIX - Rousseau et la révolution - Prélude, la France avant la tourmente, le sud… (1967) 3 exemplaires
HISTOIRE DE LA CIVILISATION - Tome XXXI - Rousseau et la révolution - Le nord protestant et l'Angletere de Johnson (1967) 3 exemplaires
The Story of Civilization, 1-7 3 exemplaires
HISTOIRE DE LA CIVILISATION - Tome XXX - Rousseau et la révolution - Le sud catholique L'Islam et l'Orient slave (1967) 2 exemplaires
Storia della civilta': la Grecia al tempo di Socrate 2 exemplaires
The Story of Civilization, Vol II 2 exemplaires
The Story of Civilization, 1-9 2 exemplaires
The Pleasures of Philosophy, Vol. 1 2 exemplaires
A Guide to Spinoza 2 exemplaires
The Age of Reason Begins: Part 3 - The Faiths Fight for Power II, The Tentatives of Reason (1961) 2 exemplaires
The Pleasures of Philosophy, Vol. 2 1 exemplaire
The Philosophy of Herbert Spencer 1 exemplaire
The History of Civilization [Volumes 1 - 11] 1 exemplaire
The Story of Philosophy: Francis Bacon 1 exemplaire
Das Leben Griechenlands 1 exemplaire
The History of Civilization, Part IV 1 exemplaire
Storia della civiltà 1 exemplaire
The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time 1 exemplaire
World History (multi-volume) 1 exemplaire
The Age of Napoleon: Part 3 - Britain 1 exemplaire
The Age of Faith, Part 2 of 2 1 exemplaire
The Story of Civilization, 6-7 1 exemplaire
The Story of Civilization, 5-6 1 exemplaire
قصة الحضارة (أوروبا الوسطى) 1 exemplaire
The Story of Civilization, Part 1 1 exemplaire
L' epoca della fede. To. 2, Arabi ed ebrei 1 exemplaire
Η περιπέτεια της φιλοσοφίας 1 exemplaire
A Program for America 1 exemplaire
Mendjet dhe idetë më të mëdha të të gjithë kohëve 1 exemplaire
The Story of Civilization, 3, 5-6 1 exemplaire
The Story of Civilization, 1-6 1 exemplaire
قصة الحضارة: الشرق الأدنى 1 exemplaire
islam medeniyeti 1 exemplaire
Lood filosoofia ajaloost. IV-V 1 exemplaire
The Philosophy of Immanuel Kant 1 exemplaire
قصة الحضارة: عصر فولتير #1 1 exemplaire
Storia della civiltà 26 tomi 3-5-1,2,3 1 exemplaire
Le Lezioni della storia 3-5-1 1 exemplaire
L'epoca d'oro della civiltà greca (saggio) 3-5-1 1 exemplaire
Filosofi - Le opere 7-11-1 1 exemplaire
Filosofi 7-11-1 1 exemplaire
The Story of Civilization, 7-11 1 exemplaire
قصة الحضارة: عصر الإيمان #1 1 exemplaire
The Age of Louis XIV: Part 3 - The Intellectual Adventure, France Against Europe (1963) 1 exemplaire
Kulturgeschichte der Menschheit (25 von 32 Bdn.) 1 exemplaire
Tarihten Alınacak Dersler 1 exemplaire
قصة الحضارة - ملخص 1 exemplaire
The Story of Philosophy: Schopenhauer 1 exemplaire
Os Pensadores: A História da Filosofia,- 7ª Ed. 1 exemplaire
قصة الحضارة: روسو والثورة #1 1 exemplaire
قصة الحضارة: الشرق الأقصى الصين 1 exemplaire
قصة الحضارة: الشرق الأقصى اليابان 1 exemplaire
قصة الحضارة: حياة اليونان #1 1 exemplaire
قصة الحضارة: قيصر والمسيح أو الحضارة الرومانية #1 1 exemplaire
قصة الحضارة: قيصر والمسيح أو الحضارة الرومانية #2 1 exemplaire
The Age of Faith, Part 1 of 2 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Contributeur — 134 exemplaires
The Works of Schopenhauer [abridged] (1928) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions; Directeur de publication — 29 exemplaires
High Moment: Stories of Supreme Crises in the Lives of Great Men — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Durant, Will
- Nom légal
- Durant, William James
- Autres noms
- ول ديورانت
ויל דוראנט - Date de naissance
- 1885-11-05
- Date de décès
- 1981-11-07
- Lieu de sépulture
- Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- North Adams, Massachusetts, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- North Adams, Massachusetts, USA (birth)
- Études
- Saint Peter's College (BA|1907)
Columbia University (Ph.D|1917) - Professions
- historian
writer
author
librarian - Relations
- Durant, Ariel (wife)
- Organisations
- Ferrer Modern School
Seton Hall University
Labor Temple School - Prix et distinctions
- Presidential Medal of Freedom (1977)
Pulitzer Prize (literature|1967)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1959)
Golden Plate Award (1976) - Notice de désambigüisation
- Please do NOT combine this page with the various forms of "Will and Ariel Durant". Single authors should never be combined with multiples. Thank you.
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The Story of Civilization by the Durants: Yea or Nay? à Non-Fiction Readers (Décembre 2021)
Will Durant à Philosophy and Theory (Juillet 2010)
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- Œuvres
- 193
- Aussi par
- 5
- Membres
- 26,846
- Popularité
- #770
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 202
- ISBN
- 369
- Langues
- 13
- Favoris
- 33
Human behavior is affected by many factors. The values of the factors change, but the methods in history repeat, just with different details. Not much has changed in the character of people, as the desires are the same but expressed differently. Same strategies used but with different associations. Humans are evolutionary trained to be competitive for resources, for even cooperation is a tool and form of competition. Climate, geography, and nature can limit human capacity, but the limits were overcome by human ingenuity. Knowledge can be used to improve society, or decimate it. Making those who resist change as important as those who inspire change. Religion and government have been used to enable cooperation between people. Religion provides a moral code that is above even the most powerful people. Government enforces laws that provide freedom by restricting absolute freedom’s destructive capacity. Civilization is dependent on education, for civilization is not inherited.
What Are Some More Lessons Of History?
All historians are partial, for even those who think they are not, choose material and subjects based on their partiality. What normally makes history are the exceptional events, rather than most of history which is more mundane.
Moral laxity is not a sign of moral decay, but of a transitioning moral code. Religions rise and fall, only to be resurrected. Moral life used to be aided by religion, but contemporary society does not use religion.
War is the norm, and it part of the competitive process. The individual is restrained by morals and laws, but the state does not have such restraints.
Inequality is cyclical. An inevitable concentration of wealth, which can become intolerable that inspires the redistribution of wealth using various means. Dictators rise when wealth distribution is inappropriate. It was because power has been abused that lead to revolution that gave rise to democracy, which has taken its turn in misgovernance.
Caveats?
The focus is on broad categories, and describing their trends over the course of history. There is a lack of information on any specific society or era. This book prompts the reader to search for that information, and provides a way to interpret the events.
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