Published shortly after his death, the Ethics is undoubtedly Spinoza's greatest work - an elegant, fully cohesive cosmology derived from first principles, providing a coherent picture of reality, and a guide to the meaning of an ethical life. Following a logical step-by-step format, it defines in turn the nature of God, the mind, the emotions, human bondage to the emotions, and the power of understanding - moving from a consideration of the eternal, to speculate upon humanity's place in the natural order, the nature of freedom and the path to attainable happiness. A powerful work of elegant simplicity, the Ethics is a brilliantly insightful consideration of the possibility of redemption through intense thought and philosophical reflection. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlmQSirYhBY
Set in 1913, it tells the story of a young Austrian calvary officer, Lieutenant Hofmiller, who befriends a rich family who live in a castle near the town where he is garrisoned. He becomes embroiled in a complex relationship with the daughter Edith, who is disabled, and whose sufferings and emotional turbulence dominate the home. When Edith falls in love with him, Hofmiller becomes the unhealthy focus of the family’s hope.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chg8TBygywU
An epileptic man (Myshkin) returns from medical treatment abroad and finds himself in love with Nastasia. There are twists and turns as the he gets engaged to another woman (Amba) only to have an epileptic seizure. Nastasia and he get betrothed but on the wedding day she goes to her rich pursuer (Pawan) only to be killed by him. Both men wait together for the police. Ultimately, Myshkin descends into insanity.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdbwJZQKoBQ
Antigone was originally produced in Paris in 1942, when France was an occupied nation and part of Hitler's Europe. The play depicts an authoritarian regime and the play's central character, the young Antigone, mirrored the predicament of the French people in the grips of tyranny. One of the masterpieces of the modern French stage
Jean Anouilh adapted Greek playwright Sophocles' Antigone and paid homage to it by hitting most of the same story notes, but also made it his own by using it as an inspiration for anti-Nazi sentiment.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lILfjtGw_X8
Published shortly after his death, the Ethics is undoubtedly Spinoza's greatest work - an elegant, fully cohesive cosmology derived from first principles, providing a coherent picture of reality, and a guide to the meaning of an ethical life. Following a logical step-by-step format, it defines in turn the nature of God, the mind, the emotions, human bondage to the emotions, and the power of understanding - moving from a consideration of the eternal, to speculate upon humanity's place in the natural order, the nature of freedom and the path to attainable happiness. A powerful work of elegant simplicity, the Ethics is a brilliantly insightful consideration of the possibility of redemption through intense thought and philosophical reflection.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3I_h31rlMw
In Chekhov's tragi-comedy - perhaps his most popular play - the Gayev family is torn by powerful forces, forces rooted deep in history, and in the society around them. Their estate is hopelessly in debt: urged to cut down their beautiful cherry orchard and sell the land for holiday cottages, they struggle to act decisively.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDy3xOM0Cfg
Set in 1913, it tells the story of a young Austrian calvary officer, Lieutenant Hofmiller, who befriends a rich family who live in a castle near the town where he is garrisoned. He becomes embroiled in a complex relationship with the daughter Edith, who is disabled, and whose sufferings and emotional turbulence dominate the home. When Edith falls in love with him, Hofmiller becomes the unhealthy focus of the family’s hope.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYziuYoS4mU