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John David Lewis, Ph.D.
Visiting Associate
Professor
Philosophy,
Politics and Economics Program
Duke University
PREPUBLICATION
BOOK LAUNCH!!!
Nothing Less than
Victory: Decisive Wars and the Lessons of History
What Else is New?
Environmental Policy:
Letter on Climate
Legislation
Article
"History, Politics, and Claims of Man-made Global Warming"
Foreign Policy:
Pajamas TV, Iran and
Israel
Political: The
Charlotte Tea Party Speech
Books
Solon the
Thinker: Political Thought in Archaic Athens
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Early Greek
Lawgivers
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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
Detail from North Doors, the Battisterio, Florence.
John David Lewis, Ph.D.
classicalideals@yahoo.com
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