How Calendars Are Made  Download How Calendars Are Made[handout]According to the reading, how many months

How Calendars Are Made  Download How Calendars Are Made[handout]According to the reading, how many months was there in a Roman calendar year?
According to the reading, who is responsible (for the most part) for the current Western calendar that says we are in year 2020? That is, who did away with the calendar that kept alive the memory of Diocletian?
According to the reading, How many months are there in the Ethiopian calendar year?
If you could create a new calendar that the whole world would eventually be forced to follow, what important historical event would you choose to mark the first year of your calendar?
According to the reading, what calendar, relative to the birth of Christ, has the earliest starting point?

1 ARISTOTLE claims THALES is founder of Western philosophy – Metaphysics – 1.3 983b18–27 = DK 11A12  Download Metaphysics – 1.3 983b18–27 = DK 11A12- P. 693-702-Richard McKeon ed. Modern Library 2001According to the reading, how many causes does Aristotle speak of?What are they?

According to the reading, when Aristotle talks about the first philosophers, what does he say that they believe the principles of all things is made of?
According to the reading, what does Aristotle say about what the first philosophers believed about the number and nature of first principles?
According to Aristotle, who was the founder of “this type of philosophy”?
A. According to Aristotle, what did this person believe was the first principle?
B. According to Aristotle, what conclusion did this person come to on this basis?
C. According to Aristotle, what reasons did this person probably have to support A above?

1.1 Aristotle on THALES as founder of Western Philosophy-by Richard D. McKirahan-Philosophy Before Socrates  Download Philosophy Before Socrates-2nd ed.-Hackett publishing 2010In your own words, according to the text, what is the difference between a “philosopher” and a “speculator about the gods”?
In your own words, according to Aristotle, what did Thales believe about magnets?

The Basis of Metaphysics and The First Metaphysicians, PP. 113-115 (Solomon and Higgins, “The Big Questions”  Download “The Big Questions” [Textbook]In your own words, according to the reading, how is Solomon and Higgins’s definition of “cosmology” different from the same definition in the Broad Outline?
In your own words, according to Solomon and Higgins, what monumental step forward did the Greek philosophers take?

Expanding the Philosophical Canon, P. 298  (Solomon and Higgins, “The Big Questions”  Download “The Big Questions” [Textbook]According to the reading, is “philosophy” limited to “Western philosophy”?Why or why not?

According to Solomon and Higgins, what is the bare minimum required for a civilization’s thinking to count as “philosophy”?
In your own words, according to K. Anthony Appiah, what have feminists philosophers argued?
According to the reading, did Plato have female students?
What reasons do Solomon and Higgins give for the relative lack of female philosophers in the official canon of philosophy?
According to Solomon and Higgins, what did medieval Arabic, Jewish, and Persian philosophers do with Greek and Roman philosophies during the European Dark Ages?According to the reading, during the European Dark Ages, what were Ancient Greek and Roman philosophies considered?

According to Solomon and Higgins, what is at least one difference between Chinese philosophy and Western philosophy?

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