The History of England (Part 2): 1215-1341 (MP3 download) Fiction

The History of England (Part 2): 1215-1341 (MP3 download) FictionBy Andrew Lewis By 1215, English monarchs and barons had instituted significant reforms that secularized and rationalized England's political and legal systems, and limitedin theorythe power of the king. What happened to these reforms? Were they adhered to and enhanced, or were they ignored and allowed to decay? What influence, if any, did the political ideas of the 13th century's greatest thinker, Thomas Aquinas, have on England's political system?

This course (heavily expanded and revised from a course given in 1998) traces the political and intellectual history that ended the Dark Ages and ignited the Renaissance

This lecture was recorded at the 2011 Objectivist Summer Conference in Fort Lauderdale

Using the stock market to illustrate this principle

Global Balkanization (1977)

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“dedicated moralists” must come forward to uphold the individual’s moral right to exist for his own sake

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which contains Plato's arguments for the existence of gods and his account of what a good city ought to do with atheists

a demand for submission to his magnificent power

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