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THE RENAISSANCE
- ANTIQUITY = CHILDHOOD.
- MIDDLE AGES = SCHOOL DAYS.
- RENAISSANCE = THE TEEN YEARS AFTER SCHOOL:--WHAT DOES THE ANALOGY MEAN?
ALBERTO ‘SLIPS’ AND CALLS SOPHIE HILDE!!!(p. 210), BUT IS IT REALLY A SLIP SINCE HILDE'S DAD IS PUTTING WORDS IN THEIR MOUTHS, AND IS EXPLOITING THEIR WEAKNESSES.
SOPHIE
FINDS A COIN ON THE STREET THAT SHE NEEDS TO GET HOME AND WONDERS IF ______LEFT
IT THERE? RECALL THE CHAPTER ON FATE. MUST ALL OF THIS BE? (AND REMEMBER WE ARE
CONSIDERING THE RENAISSANCE).
The Renaissance: It was a time characterized by a belief in humanity, with a focus on
the individual. All cultural life flourished, and Rome was rebuilt. People felt that God
was present throughout nature, a belief called pantheism.
Pantheism: is the view that the Universe (or Nature) and God (or divinity) are identical.
The
Baroque
***The Baroque: is a period of artistic style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, architecture, literature, dance, and music. The style started around 1600 in Rome, Italy and spread to most of Europe.
On Tuesday, May 29th, a major in the Norwegian UN
Battalion is killed in Lebanon and Sophie thinks it may have been Hilde's
father.
Philosophy
was characterized by conflict between idealism, the belief that existence is
spiritual, and materialism, the belief that only material phenomena really
exist.
However, materialists have historically held that everything is made of matter, but physics has shown that gravity, for example, is not made of matter in the traditional sense of "'an inert, senseless substance, in which extension, figure, and motion do actually subsist'…
- MOTHER TO DAUGHTER--IS SOPHIE SEEING AN OLDER MAN? IN WHAT SENSE IS SOPHIE'S MOM RIGHT AND WRONG ABOUT 'LOVE'?
- DAUGHTER TO MOTHER--DIVORCE? WHERE IS DAD?
- NOTICE THAT SOPHIE IS QUITE POINTED IN REFUSING TO TELL HER MOTHER ABOUT___? (P. 214) WHY?
- SOPHIE WILL CELEBRATE HER 15TH BIRTHDAY PARTY, WITH ALBERTO AS A GUEST AT A PHILOSOPHICAL GARDEN PARTY?
Epistemology: meaning "knowledge, science" is the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature and scope (limitations) of knowledge It addresses the questions:
- What is knowledge?
- How is knowledge acquired?
- To what extent is it possible for a given subject or entity to be known?
Descartes
Alberto continues talking to Sophie, and he describes the life of Descartes. Descartes decided, much like Socrates, that he did not know very much.
He doubted the many philosophical works that had been handed through the Middle Ages and he set out to build his own philosophical system. Descartes was the first philosopher in a long time to attempt to bring all knowledge into a coherent (theory of truth) philosophy.
The mind and body interact, but the goal is to get the mind to operate solely according to reason.
****Alberto shows Sophie an artificial intelligence program and Sophie has a conversation with it. Major Albert Knag, Hilde's father, sneaks onto the hard drive and talks to them briefly through the computer.
