Ancient Web Ancient Web includes the Art, Culture and History of Ancient Patagonia, Ancient Gaul, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Peru, Romania, and Spain: http://www.ancientweb.org/
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authors. Since 1988, Dialogue has offered its listeners informed
discussion on important ideas and issues in national and international
affairs, history, and culture – providing commentary that goes beyond
the superficial analysis presented in many of today's talk shows. http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=dialogue.more_info
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Founding.com A project of The Claremont Institute, Founding.com is dedicated to making the documents and principles of the American Founding accessible to educators and students of all ages. The site includes the "Founders Library", an extensive collection of writings and documents by the American Founders and statesmen of the early republic. Founding.com is a remarkable and valuable primary source library. http://www.founding.com/
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Online Guide to Ethics and Moral Philopsophy http://caae.phil.cmu.edu/Cavalier/80130/part1/sect5/RMP.html
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Squashed Philosophers
There's nothing new in making condensed versions of the classics. What is different here is that these are neither the opinion of one person nor mere extracts. Instead, each has begun with a very wide analysis of quotations, citations and, especially, past examination papers (including UK A-Levels back to 1976), to establish which passages, which phrases, which lines, which words and which ideas, are generally considered the most important. Those essential parts have, as far as is reasonable, been left complete and untouched in the authors' or translators' original words. It is just the stuff between which has been squashed up, except when it is really interesting- like St Augustine's mother's alcoholism, Hobbes on Angels or Adam Smith on why Irish prostitutes are so very beautiful. And there's something more. By compressing these books to a tenth or so of their original size it becomes possible to read the whole thing as a single narrative, as the story of Western Thought, the story of how we got where we are now, the last chapter still waiting to be written. Is it cheating? Perhaps, but if it is, then so is reading Plato in anything other than unical Attic on papyrus. http://www.btinternet.com/~glynhughes/squashed/
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World Lecture Hall World Lecture Hall publishes links to pages created by faculty worldwide who are using the Web to deliver course materials in any language. Some courses are delivered entirely over the Internet. Others are designed for students in residence. Many fall somewhere in between. In all cases, they can be visited by anyone interested in courseware on the Internet - faculty, developers, and curious students alike. http://web.austin.utexas.edu/wlh/browse.cfm
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