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| Resource: | DVD (DVD495) The Great Courses: The American Mind |
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| Author: | Guelzo, Allen C. | |
| Publisher: | The Teaching Company, 2005 | |
| Subjects: | Education | |
| Location: | Great Courses shelf | |
| # Copies: | 1 | |
| ISBN/ISSN: | 9781598031126 | |
| Description: | Great Course #4880 Pt.1 Lectures 25-36 This course "offers a broad survey of American intellectual history. It is a history of the ideas, the thinkers, and the institutions that have mattered most to Americans as a people." It is built around 6 basic themes in American thinking: 1. Is it more important to think or to act? 2. "Persistence of religious ideas as a living part of American intellectual life." 3. Dichotomy of American consciousness as product of Puritan religion v. embracing of the Enlightenment. 4. The struggle between liberty and power. 5. Turning away from traditional philosophical and social thinking and toward pragmatism and secularism. 6. Dilemmas posed by the American ascent to world power through two world wars and the responsibilites that have come with it. -Scope of course |
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| Age Groups: | Adult (30-55); Adult (55+) |
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