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The Great Ideas of Philosophy, 2nd Edition

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The Great Ideas of Philosophy, 2nd Edition - Season 1 Episode 6 Herodotus and the Lamp of History

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Can history actually teach us? Herodotus looked at what he took to be certain universal human aspirations and deficiencies and concluded that indeed history could.

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