We finally really begin Antony and Cleopatra, discussing Plutarch's interest in character, and Shakespeare's, and what makes a tragic character interesting since we know what the plot will be. Aristotle on pity and terror again: usually the protagonist or main is someone innocent or at worst someone like ourselves: not so in Macbeth. After which we start analyzing the opening scene, with comparisons to Lear and to Hamlet as well (on the quantification of love). Many corny jokes.
Infinity 8: Philosophical questions
Infinity 7: Aristotle and the reality of space and time
Parmenides, Anaximander, Hilbert, the Fifth Postulate
Infinity 5: Extension and intension and interesting numbers
Sets and counting
Infinity 3: God's Point of View
Infinity 2: Borges
First class on Thinking About Infinity
Last class - Milton
Last class on Merrill's Book of Ephraim
Marvell
Ephraim 4/26/12
Satan, God, Adam and Eve
Keeping them down on the farm
Ephraim 4/23/12
Book of Ephraim, con't 4/19/12
Milton
Book of Ephraim, con't 4/18/12
Paradise Lost introduced yet once more
Who or what we took Ephraim to Be
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