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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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Wednesday Oct 10, 2012
Wednesday Oct 10, 2012
[Fixed: was missing audio file before] Why read Augustine if you're not religious? What philosophical questions are like. Motives to ask them: to prove that you're right, or to wonder. How they questions are better than the arguments they're for: Zeno thought he was proving there was no motion, but in fact he raised very subtle questions about motion. Why philosophy matters to people. Kinds of questions that Augustine wonders about. Math induction.
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