Word: timaeus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Philosophy 3b considers the cosmologies of Lucretius, Plato's Timaeus, and Newton. There is also emphasis on Descartes. In contrasting the Timaeus with Lucretius, Professor Whitehead sketches his own cosmology, which is based largely on the former. In the lectures the modern world is seen through the eyes of probably the most distinguished living philosopher, who also brings to his job such a logical mind as wrote "Principia Mathematics," a thorough knowledge of mathematical physics, and an unshakable conviction that his classes know more than he does. Long after the subject matter of the lectures is forgotten...
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