Comparative Literature and Culture 1040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 90: Leotard, Ancient Greek Philosophy
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Sharing of knowledge accessible to people. Needed to be invented to have print revolution paper. Knowledge is not in the hand of very few. Because books are printed, we start reading, teachers use to read to the people would remember. Canonic books books that we teach or we want to keep alive (need to ) Classics are close to canonic but different. Those in power get to teach the knowledge that is gained by people. Creation of power is the other side of excerises of power. Aristotle links canon and logic and paradoxes. Basis of canon object of censorship and master of logic which is the attempt to organize our thought in a way to decide what is true and what is false. Achilles and tortilleos, zenos paradox read story by mathematician which we saw an example of a parodx built upon a paradox.