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Introduction |
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| Ancient and Modern Knowing |
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Knowledge as Power/Knowledge as Virtue |
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The Idea of a Proof |
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| Logos and Arithmos |
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Logos as Definition- What is "What is?" |
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Logos as Ratio, Magnitude and Multitude, Quality and Quantity |
First paper due |
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The Greek Conception of Number |
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The Idea of Number: Ancient vs. Modern |
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| Measuring the Unmeasurable |
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Putting the Irrational in Ratio |
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Fitting Ideas to the World |
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| 10 |
Fitting Ideas to the World (cont.) |
Second paper due |
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The Truth as a Surd |
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| 12 |
The Truth as a Surd (cont.) |
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| The Limits of Mathematics |
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A. Plato, Protagoras |
Third paper due |
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B. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics |
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| 15 |
Review |
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