Description
This course introduces students to changing conceptions of the universe over time in Western Civilization, and surveys a number of primary readings associated with these changing conceptions. The understanding of the nature of everything that exists is one that has perplexed all generations of humans; and to many extents, the answers that have been formulated over time are excellent indices of epochs of human consciousness. Astronomy, the cosmos, the history of material and material effects is also the tale of humankind and our understanding of things, bodies, objects, movements and forces. This course serves as a primary introduction to Classical philosophy. It surveys the written works of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Archimedes, Euclid, Lucretius, Cicero and Ptolemy.
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
Conscious Causality. To understand the nature of being as it has been contemplated by human consciousness over time.
Information Reasoning. To recognize the direct relationships between mate