And the new semester is started. First class today was History of Philosophy II. I played off of Peter Sloterdijk's view in Rage and Time: A Psychopolitical Investigation to discuss the conflict between metis and menis, which I used to contrast Socrates and Euthyphro, Odysseus and Achilles, Faith and Science. Making the point while you can never have one without the other (Mr. Spock is really impossible) that none the less they can be useful as a way to contrast the Middle Ages with the Scientific Revolution, and even the conflict between Science and Faith today. I also mentioned the change in maps with the advent of Columbus and Magellan's voyages adding the oceans to the Earth - perhaps the Earth should have been called the Water? (Another thanks to Peter Sloterdijk this time his book In The World Interior of Capital and the question concerning the model of the universe. Copernicus was briefly discussed. The quiz question was to email me for the list of philosophers to choose from for the term paper.