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Ideas that shaped mankind, a concise history of human thought, Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

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Ideas that shaped mankind

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Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

The Modern scholar

a concise history of human thought

Felipe Fernandez-Armesto's views on the notion that man's capacity to produce ideas in itself brings about sweeping changes in the world. This ability seen most profoundly in individual, startling moments of genius - or equally startling moments of chance-- is what separates humans from the animals and allows humans to re-imagine the world in ever more complex designs. From the earliest ideas, including cannibalism and the idea of farming, to theories of relativity and chaos, ideas reshape the world in surprising and wholly unexpected ways

Lecture 1. The idea of ideas -- Lecture 2. The mind of the hunter -- Lecture 3. Of ice and mud -- Lecture 4. From settlement to civilization -- Lecture 5. Thus spake Zarathustra -- Lecture 5. The age of sages -- Lecture 7. The age of sages: religion -- Lecutre 8. Ideas about religion -- Lecture 9. The Renaissance and the scientific revolution -- Lecture 10. The enlightenment -- Lecture 11. The Nineteenth century -- Lecture 12. A century of horrors -- LEcture 13. The restoration of chaos -- Lecture 14. The age of uncertainty

Concise history of human thought