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SES #TOPICSKEY DATES
1Introduction
Ancient and Modern Knowing
2Knowledge as Power/Knowledge as Virtue
3The Idea of a Proof
Logos and Arithmos
4Logos as Definition- What is "What is?"
5Logos as Ratio, Magnitude and Multitude, Quality and QuantityFirst paper due
6The Greek Conception of Number
7The Idea of Number: Ancient vs. Modern
Measuring the Unmeasurable
8Putting the Irrational in Ratio
9Fitting Ideas to the World
10Fitting Ideas to the World (cont.)Second paper due
11The Truth as a Surd
12The Truth as a Surd (cont.)
The Limits of Mathematics
13A. Plato, ProtagorasThird paper due
14B. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
15Review

 








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