HoP 309 - Hooked on Classics - Italos and the Debate over Pagan Learning

HoP 309 - Hooked on Classics - Italos and the...

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HoP 494 Tell the Truth While Laughing: The French Moralists

La Rochefoucauld and other “moralists” offer a penetrating and witty critique of human pride, selfishness, and hypocrisy. Is this just cynicism, or does it support a positive ethic? 

 . 23min 1sec
HoP 493 Better Nature: The French Garden

How the French formal garden embodied both Cartesian philosophy and the political ideology of the French monarchy. 

 . 21min 18sec

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