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The jumping-off point
Aug. 12th, 2020 04:12 pm Wikipedia's list of timelines is going to be my go-to resource for figuring out what topics I'm going to be reading and learning about.
From there, for instance, I found the timeline of cosmological theories that will help me start dipping my toes into all the ways humans have conceived of the universe's beginnings (if it has one, or perhaps I should say "this universe's beginnings"?) and development. Obviously each of the theories is situated in its founder's place and time and that links it to a human-centered source, but I am interested to find out what all manner of people have thought about the origins and make-up of the universe.
Because I'm taking the historical approach to its logical conclusion by allowing that this isn't a human-centered universe and I ought therefore to not limit my historically-derived re-education to just the human realm, it would seem that I'm actually stepping outside the traditional trivium (grammar, logic, rhetoric) and adding one topic of the quadrivium (cosmology or astronomy). I'm ok with that.
I'll be doing a separate post that will contain my proposed reading list and that will be updated as need be.
From there, for instance, I found the timeline of cosmological theories that will help me start dipping my toes into all the ways humans have conceived of the universe's beginnings (if it has one, or perhaps I should say "this universe's beginnings"?) and development. Obviously each of the theories is situated in its founder's place and time and that links it to a human-centered source, but I am interested to find out what all manner of people have thought about the origins and make-up of the universe.
Because I'm taking the historical approach to its logical conclusion by allowing that this isn't a human-centered universe and I ought therefore to not limit my historically-derived re-education to just the human realm, it would seem that I'm actually stepping outside the traditional trivium (grammar, logic, rhetoric) and adding one topic of the quadrivium (cosmology or astronomy). I'm ok with that.
I'll be doing a separate post that will contain my proposed reading list and that will be updated as need be.
