I. JOANNA LIES TO HER PARENTS TO COVER FOR SOPHIE’S ABSENCE AT THE CHURCH

II. SOPHIE SEES AN APPARITION IN THE BRASS MIRROR THAT SHE TOOK FROM THE MAJOR’S CABIN? WHO IS THE "OTHER GIRL?"

III. SOPHIE’S DREAM: (p. 191)

A. SEES ‘HILDE’ RUN TO A MAN IN UNIFORM, LEAVING BEHIND A GOLD CROSS
B. SHE FINDS A GOLD CROSS UNDER HER PILLOW WITH THE INITIALS : “HMK.”
C. HERMES TAKES SOPHIE TO KNOX’S ADDRESS
D. WHAT IS THE PHILOSOPHICAL IMPORTANCE OF THE CROSS COMING FROM THE DREAM?
E. THE DREAM AND ITS AFTERMATH SUGGEST EVENTS THAT APPEAR TO DEFY LOGIC, BUT RECALL:

• LOGIC IS NOT THE SAME AS TRUTH--(BACON'S CRITIQUE OF SCHOLASTICISM)
  • LOGIC:
    • ALL MEN ARE SIX FEET TALL
    • JOHN IS A MAN
    • JOHN IS SIX FEET TALL
  • THE SYLLOGISM IS LOGICAL BUT NOT TRUE.

• PHILOSOPHY ASKS, 'WHAT IS REASONABLE TO BELIEVE?'

IV. THE POSTCARD: HUMAN LIFE AND THE AGES

A. ANTIQUITY = CHILDHOOD
B. MIDDLE AGES = SCHOOL DAYS
C. RENAISSANCE = THE TEEN YEARS AFTER SCHOOL:--WHAT DOES THE ANALOGY MEAN?
D. ADMONITION ABOUT LOSING THE CROSS.

VII. MEETING WITH KNOX:

A. KNOX’S ROOM IS A ‘SMITHSONIAN’ OF HISTORY
B. ‘ONLY PHILOSOPHY CAN BRING US CLOSER TO HILDE’S FATHER.”--meaning what?


VIII. THE RENAISSANCE:

A. RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION--the Challenge of Luther (1483-1546)
B. THE START OF THE SCIENTIFIC AGE
C. THE PRINTING PRESS AND THE POWER OF TECHNOLOGY
D. RENAISSANCE HUMANISM AND NATURE: BACON (p. 203) AND THE REBELLION AGAINST THE LOGIC OF ARISTOTLE:

1--COPERNICUS--(p. 204) the new astronomy
2--GALILEO--(p. 205) the founder of modern physics
3--KEPLER--(p. 209) mathematical explanation of the solar system's operation
4--NEWTON--( 210) "I stood on the shoulder of giants."

E. WHO IS NOW IN CONTROL?

1.NATURE MEANS WHAT?
2.HUMANISM MEANS WHAT?
3.WHAT IS THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD?

IX. A NEW RELIGION:

A. PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP TO GOD
B. THE EDUCATED RESPONSE--LUTHER: what had to be reformed, and why?

X. ALBERTO ‘SLIPS’ AND CALLS SOPHIE HILDE!!!

XII. SOPHIE FINDS A COIN ON THE STREET AND GOES HOME