Ep. 59: What is a Classical Education?
Young Heretics
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Plato's Commentary on Euclid
Hproclus was one of the crucial transmitters of platonic philosophy into e out of antiquity and into the middle ages. The pass a im gon to read to you now is from his commentary on euclid. And so we read in proce he says, after these considerations, having thought about number of other things, we need to survey the parts of mathematical knowledge, what they are and how many. After taking into account what it is in its entirety, it is right to consider the difference of its more particular sciences according to their species. To saying, math is this big. This is kind of what plato was saing riat math, in the sense of number under
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