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Durant was born in North Adams, Massachusetts of French-Canadian parents. He had fought for equal wages, women’s suffrage and fairer working conditions for the American labor force. Durant wrote about subjects and put his ideas into effect. Durant attempted to bring philosophy to the common man. He wrote The Story of Philosophy , The Mansions of Philosophy , and, aided by his wife, Ariel, wrote the The Story of Civilization. He also wrote magazine articles. He tried to improve understanding of viewpoints of human beings and to have others forgive foibles and human waywardness.
For their work, The Story of Civilization, they were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for literature and the highest award granted by the government to civilians, the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Ford in 1977.
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In 1907Events January events January 6 Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome Casa dei Bambini in San Lorenzo). January 14 An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than a 1,000 January 23 Charles Curtis, he began teaching LatinAlternative meanings: See Latin (disambiguation Latin was the language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. It gained great importance as the formal language of the Roman Empire. All Romance languages are descended from Latin, and ma, French, English and geometry in Seton Hall College, South Orange, New Jersey. Durant was made librarian at the college.
In 1911 he left the Seminary. He became the teacher and chief pupil of the Ferrer Modern School. It was an experiment in libertarian education. Alden Freeman sponsored him for a tour of Europe. At the school, he fell in love with a pupil, Ariel.
In 1913, he resigned his post as teacher and supported himself and married her. He began lecturing for five- and ten-dollar fees. Alden Freeman paid his tuition for the graduate schools of Columbia University.
He had one daughter, Ethel.
In 1917, working on a doctorate in philosophy, Will Durant wrote his first book, Philosophy and the Social Problem. He discussed the idea that philosophy had not grown because it avoided the actual problems of society. He received his doctorate in 1917. He was an instructor at Columbia University, but he was dismissed from his post.
He began lecturing on the history of philosophy, literature, science, music, and art. In 1921, he formed Labor Temple School. It was to conduct adult education.
He retired from teaching and began work on the five volume history of civilization. Durant drafted a civil rights "Declaration of Interdependence" in the early 1940s, before the Civil Rights Movement by a few decades. This Declaration was introduced into the Congressional Record on October 1, 1945.
At the age of 96, he went into the hospital and died shortly afterwards. He was buried beside his wife in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles.
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