English 2150

Print the Diogenes section ONLY, not Heraclitus.

Guy Davenport – Herakleitos and Diogenes

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Please check the assignments listing. You have three big things due by 9/20 (next Thursday).

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Our room will change to 1203. Repeat — 1203 (23 st. building).

Please be on time this evening to room 1203.  Please, also, download and print out the attached readings (below) and bring them to class. We are going to practice a critical slow reading process tonight and you will need the text. Print and read them in the order that they appear.

From Fish to Infinity. Steven Strogatz.

The Hilbert Hotel. Steven Strogatz

Download these. Print them. Annotate them. Write questions and comments down in your notebook regarding them.

From Fish to Infinity. Steven Strogatz

The Hilbert Hotel

Post your (proofread and edited) in-class writing in the comments field, below.

CLASS NOTES. Baruch 2150 Fall 2012

Please keep up with the discussion topics as well as the in-class writings.

Download. Read (especially if you are late, or, missing class).

CLASS NOTES. Baruch 2150 Fall 2012

If you missed anything or missed class or just miss the ideas we shackle and unshackle in class, here are the notes. I will try and post them for each class meeting. (Click on the link below.)

Prof. Walker

CLASS NOTES. Baruch 2150 Fall 2012

Students!

Your assignment is to revise (correct grammatical errors and make sure the citation is correct) your short essay from Class One and post it here (in the comments field, below). Click “Submit Comment” and enter your essay in the box.

Again, the formula should be, as follows:  1) State the idea or quotation and where it comes from, 2) provide a professional interpretation of the idea that you could offer up in a public debate, discussion, etc (You may have to compare the idea to another idea in order to fully interpret its merit.). Be creative, be professional, and avoid 1st and 2nd person pronouns (me, I, my, mine, we, us, you). This should be somewhere between 300 and 500 words. Format it as the example appears below.

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Name // Date

Title of Piece

The idea of going further into the light from Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” is a powerful one; it has been canonized and still possesses high relational capability in the sense that the more ignorant and unaware an individual remains throughout his or her life, is the more stuck an individual becomes. It takes a virtuous person to exit the cave and then return to free his or her fellow prisoners from the shackling chains. . .

Plato Allegory 2

Plato-Meno 1

Download them. Save them. Print them. Read them. Annotate them.