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John David Lewis, Ph.D.
Visiting Associate
Professor
Philosophy,
Politics, and Economics Program
Duke University
classicalideals@yahoo.com
john.d.lewis@duke.edu
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MY NEW WEBSITE:
Please go to:
www.johndavidlewis.com.
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Why Study History?
We exist in an understandable universe.
Across the expanse of human history, Good Fortune and Calamity have
resulted because people have chosen to act as they did,
whether in ignorance or with conscious forethought. To study the past brings to us a vast palette of
human events, by which we can connect our own lives to those
who have come before us, and better understand our own Good Fortune and
Calamity.
Esse quam videri -- "to
be, rather than to seem" -- is a guide not only to
understanding what has been, but also to what we are, and
should be.
Leading a Seminar, Tel Aviv University, June 2, 2008
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