Showing posts with label Western. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Western. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Velazquez"s Las Meninas (Masterpieces of Western Painting) by Suzanne L. Stratton-Pruit




Velazquez"s Las Meninas (Masterpieces of Western Painting) by Suzanne L. Stratton-Pruitt


English | 30 Jan. 2003 | ISBN: 0521804884, 0521800579 | 236 Pages | DJVU | 16 MB




Velázquez"s Las Meninas was sequestered in the Spanish royal collections from 1656, when it was painted, until the opening of the Museo del Prado in 1819. From that moment, it has been one of the most famous masterpieces of western painting, inspiring many published studies of its remarkable perspectival construction and of its iconography, as well as challenging later generations of artists, from Pablo Picasso to the present.










Sunday, September 13, 2015

Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 3rd Edition [repost]




Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 3rd Edition


Audio CDs in MP3 / English: MP3, 32 kb/s (1 ch) | Duration: 41:56:40 | ISBN-10: 1565853547 | 2000 | + PDF Guides | 685 MB

Genre: History, Cultures






For 3,000 years, mankind has grappled with fundamental questions about life. What is real? Who or what is God? When is it legitimate for one person to have power over others? What is justice? Beauty? This 84-lecture, 12-professor tour of Western philosophical tradition covers more than 60 of history"s greatest minds and brings you a comprehensive survey of the history of Western philosophy from its origins in classical Greece to the present. It took 3,000 years for the debate chronicled in these lectures to reach maturity.




With this series of lectures, you can encompass it by the end of next month. You"ll travel chronologically through the history of the Western world, charting the intriguing development of Western philosophy and drawing fascinating connections between thinkers separated by the gulf of time and space. You"ll acquaint yourself with the Greek Pre-Socratics (the world"s first scientific thinkers) and examine in detail the insights of three towering figures: Socrates, his student Plato, and Plato"s student, Aristotle.




You"ll examine the contributions to philosophy from biblical traditions and the great minds of the Christian age. Then, you"ll mark the critical schism that developed between the claims of faith and those of science and participate in the breathless discovery found during the Enlightenment, which reveled in the new freedom of human potential and scientific expansion. You"ll study the provocative philosophical responses (by the Existentialists and others) to the challenges raised by the new scientific consciousness. And you"ll conclude with an overview of the work of Derrida and other late 20th-century philosophers and theorists.




The full list of lecturers includes Professors Alan Charles Kors, Darren Staloff, Dennis Dalton, Douglas Kellner, Jeremy Adams, Jeremy Shearmur, Kathleen M. Higgins, Louis Markos, Mark Risjord, Phillip Cary, Robert C. Solomon, and Robert H. Kane.





Look also:



Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 3rd Edition (Video)



Great Minds of the Eastern Intellectual Tradition



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