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William James Durant (November 5, 1875 – November 7, 1981) was a prolific American writer, historian, and philosopher. He is best known for The Story of Civilization, 11 volumes written in collaboration with his wife Ariel Durant and published between 1935 and 1975. He was earlier noted for The Story of Philosophy, written in 1926, which one observer described as "a groundbreaking work that helped to popularize philosophy."[1]
He conceived of philosophy as total perspective, or, seeing things "sub specie totius," a phrase derived from Spinoza's "sub specie aeternitatis."[2] He sought to unify and humanize the great body of historical knowledge, which had grown too voluminous and become fragmented into esoteric specialties, and to vitalize it for contemporary application.[3] Durant was a gifted prose stylist and storyteller who won a large readership in great part because of the nature and excellence of his writing, which, in contrast to formal academic language, is lively, witty, ornate and often epigrammatic.
Will and Ariel Durant were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1968 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977.
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The Lessons of History is a book by historians Will Durant and Ariel Durant.
In The Lessons of History the authors provided a summary of periods and trends in history they had noted upon completion of their momentous eleven volume The Story of Civilization. Will Durant stated that he and Ariel "made note of events and comments that might illuminate present affairs, future probabilities, the nature of man, and the conduct of states."
The book thus presents an overview of the themes and lessons observed from 5000 years of world history examined from 13 perspectives such as geography, biology, race, character, morals, religion, economics, socialism, government, war, growth and decay and progress.
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历史的第一个教训就是要学会谦逊，人类历史只是宇宙的一瞬，一颗小行星的撞击就可能让人类全体灭绝。 飞机的发展会让地理上的限制变小，制空权在新形势下要比制海权更为重要。 弱肉强食，适者生存，生命即是竞争，竞争养分，粮食，阳光，土地和配偶，乃至上升到国与国的层次。...
評分4p 犹豫：历史编纂不能算科学，只能算搜集史实的行业、将混乱的材料有意义地排列起来的艺术，以及寻求预见性观点和启蒙作用哲学。 6p 犹豫：历史与科学政治相同的是，相对性至上—一切公式皆应受到质疑。历史嘲笑一切试图强迫将其纳入理论范式和逻辑规范的举动，反动一切概括化...
評分高晓松的《晓松奇谈》开场白关于历史是这么讲的： 历史不是镜子，历史是精子，牺牲亿万才有一个活到今天；人生不是故事，人生是世故，摸爬滚打才不会辜负功名尘土；世界不是苟且，世界是远方，行万里路才能回到内心深处；未来不是岁数，未来是谜雾，读万卷书才能看清皓月繁...
評分高晓松的《晓松奇谈》开场白关于历史是这么讲的： 历史不是镜子，历史是精子，牺牲亿万才有一个活到今天；人生不是故事，人生是世故，摸爬滚打才不会辜负功名尘土；世界不是苟且，世界是远方，行万里路才能回到内心深处；未来不是岁数，未来是谜雾，读万卷书才能看清皓月繁...
評分用戶評價
視角牛逼，讀完有一種此生何用的感覺。
评分文筆很棒，雖說好像沒什麼新觀點（畢竟是在1968年）。最後說曆史的意義就在於把愈來愈豐富的文化傳承下去，怎麼說呢，總比沒有意義要好。
评分極度濃縮，語言非常優雅，值得重讀。| 最後兩章很精彩，Durant定義"progress of history" 為"the increasing control of the environment by life"，一個很有想頭的定義。| 有一點不舒服來自作者邏輯裏的極度utilitarianism。
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