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ZOOM EVENT: The Birth of Rationality and the Roots of Our Civilization
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Thursday, November 12, 2020, 1:00 PM until 2:30 PM
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Virtual Event, Your Home
Bethesda, MD 20816
301 320-3267
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Margaret Warker
301-320-3267 (p)
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Pierre Larroque
was trained in sciences in France and has always kept a keen interest in the history of scientific thought.
At the origins, women and men counted basically for trading their needs. The manipulations of numbers stemmed from commercial or taxation needs, and basic geometry allowed for constructing buildings and surveying lands. Events and “the order of things” derived from godly or royal/tyrannical edicts. Starting in about 570 BC, the Greeks questioned “the principles and reasons for all things divine and human.” This led to the birth of rational argumentation – the concept of proof and demonstrable truth – in human enquiries. A few intellectual giants - Pythagoras, Plato, Euclid, Archimedes, Apollonius – developed logic and the use of reason as the bases for our civilization’s advances. Their construction of mathematics, and thus of logic and philosophy, still underpins our societies, after we rediscovered it from Arabic sources in the Renaissance.
Pierre Larroque
will lead you through the path which those giants cleared – the synchronous birth of mathematics, rational thinking, and democracy.
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