| WEEK # | TOPICS | KEY DATES |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction | |
| I. Knowing | ||
| 2 |
A. Logos as Definition: What is "What is?" B. Knowledge as Power / Knowledge as Virtue | |
| 3 |
C. Definition and the Essence of Things D. The Idea of a Proof | |
| II. Logos and Arithmos | ||
| 4 |
Quality, Quantity, Relation, Multitude, Magnitude, Logos as Ratio The Greek Conception of Number (What's Not a Number?) | |
| III. Measuring the Unmeasurable | ||
| 5 | A. Putting the Irrational in Ratio | |
| 6 | B. Fitting Ideas to the World | First Paper Due |
| 7 | C. The Pursuit of Truth and the Idea of an Idea | |
| 8 & 9 | D. The Truth as a Surd | Re-write Due |
| 10 | E. Potentiality as a Way of Being | |
| IV. The Limits of Mathematics? | ||
| 11 | Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics | |
| 12 | Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (cont.) | |
| V. The Modern Conception of Number and the Detachment from Reality | ||
| 13 | Isaac Newton's Arithmetica Universalis | |
| 14 |
"The World of Physics and the 'Natural World" "The Sources of Modern Symbolic Mathematics" | Second Paper Due |