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New for 2023: Victorian Poetry Scroll back for previous courses on Shakespeare, Eighteenth Century Poetry, Close Reading, Various film genres, Film and Philosophy, the Western Canon, Early Romantics, 17th Century Poetry, etc.
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Thursday Oct 07, 2010
Plato, 10/5/10: first of two classes
Thursday Oct 07, 2010
Thursday Oct 07, 2010
One Homer but many Socrateses. Early, Middle, and Late Dialogues, plus Xenophon. Ordering of the dialogues, ordering of Socrates's life. Mention of the Parmenides, purported to have occurred about a century before Plato wrote it. Zeno's paradoxes. Galileo's. Diogenes the Cynic's refutation of Zeno. Quick exposition of the Forms or Ideas.
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