100: INSANI TEHZEEB KAY MAMAR | 100 انسانی تہذیب کے معمار

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Author: Will Durant

Translator: Yasir Jawad

Categories: Biography Translations

Pages: 616

Publisher: book corner

Cover: hardback

book discription:

Will James Durant (1885 - 1981) was an American philosopher, historian, and historian, best known for his seminal book The Story of Civilization, written with his wife Ariel Durant (1898 - 1981). He sought to improve the understanding of human perspectives. He was born in Massachusetts to Joseph Durant and Marie Allard, who immigrated to the United States from Quebec. In 1900, he graduated from St. Petersburg School and then moved to St. Peter's College in New Jersey. He became a socialist in 1905 and graduated two years later. After taking a $2-a-week job at a magazine, he wrote articles on sex offenders for other magazines. In 1907, Steinharl began teaching Latin, French, English and geometry at the University of New Jersey and also became the college librarian. In 1911, he started teaching at Ferrer Modern School. Here he fell in love with Chaya Kofman alias Ariel, thirteen years younger than himself, and the two got married. They had a daughter and adopted a son. In 1913, Will gave up teaching and began lecturing at the Presbyterian Church for a fee of ten dollars. The notes of these lectures became the starting point of "The Story of Civilization". In 1917, while working on his doctorate in philosophy, he wrote his first book, Philosophy and the Social Problem. "The Story of Philosophy" began as short pamphlets written for workers. In 1926, a major American publisher turned these pamphlets into a book. The success of the book gave Will Durant and Ariel Durant financial freedom and enabled them to travel around the world. Then he started writing the eleven volume masterpiece "The Story of Civilization". Will and Ariel Durant attempted to present a "combined history" of the human race. He was against writing history from a research point of view. His aim was to write a biography of a civilization which includes the lives of wars, politics and conquerors as well as culture, art, philosophy, religion etc. After Will Durant's death, two of his books, "Heroes of History" (2001) and "The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time" (2002) were published. Many of his books have been translated into Urdu. Will and Ariel express their intense love for each other in a joint autobiography. During Will's final days in the hospital, Ariel stopped eating and died on October 25, 1981. Although his daughter Ethel and grandchildren tried to hide Ariel's death from the ill Will, he found out and died two weeks later. On November 7, 1981, two days after his 96th birthday, Will Durant was buried next to Ariel at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles.

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To classify the architects or heroes of human civilization in terms of their "influences" is very difficult and in some sense inaccurate. How can you compare a scientist or philosopher presenting a theory in an academic field with an inventor or a warrior? Or how can a saint or conqueror who has achieved success in one region and era be compared to another region or era? Nevertheless, we find books containing lists of fifty or ten greats in addition to one hundred. Actually, all these are excuses to see historical characters from their own point of view. While their aim is to include many figures, they also exclude or reject many figures from the stream of history. The same is the case with this book. After reading Will Durant's famous eleven-volume (over 14,000 pages) book, "The Story of Civilization," I selected the figures that stood out the most in the book. His wife, Ariel Durant, helped him constantly in writing this book. With this, we get to know the life and work of the architects of civilization, and also find out what conclusions the author has drawn from research and writing for half a century; What eras, people and achievements do he think stand out? For example, who does he consider among the greatest thinkers in human history? which poets he thinks are truly great; Such poets whose teased songs are echoing in the ears even after hundreds of thousands of years? All these subjects have been combined in the book under review. I believe that this book presents the perfume of "The Story of Civilization" in a rich way. Will Durant was doing this himself in the last days of his life (1981). In a way I have completed his intended