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An Inside View of LaRouche’s Philosophy of Science

A Six-Week Class Series
by The LaRouche Organization

Class Topics

Class 1 (July 20)

Lyndon LaRouche, Plato and Socrates — The “always radically revolutionary process, by means of which valid new principles are generated.”
Readings: LaRouche (html • pdf), Plato's Republic end of Book VI (507c–) and opening of Book VII (–519e), Nicolaus of Cusa’s “On Conjectures” (especially the prologue and chapter 11)

Class 2 (July 27)

Johannes Kepler (1571–1630) — How a science of causes overcame curve fitting, four centuries ago.
Book: Astronomia Nova • reading excerpts • video guide • website guide • Adrian's animation

Class 3 (August 3)

Pierre de Fermat (~1601–1665) — The role of intention in science.
Book: The Battle for Light: Fermat vs. Descartes. Selected readings will be provided in class.

Class 4 (August 10)

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) — The infinitesimal calculus: how a language of causes revolutionized science.
Preview video: my 2016 class series on Leibniz. Reading handout available here.

Class 5 (August 17)

Carl Gauss (1777–1855) and Bernhard Riemann (1826–1866) — Visualizing the complex domain: how Gauss defeats empiricism; how Riemann redefines space and knowledge. Recommended viewing: 37-minute video on Riemann's habilitation dissertation, which LaRouche credits with inspiring his own insights.
Readings: Gauss on the fundamental theorem of algebra and Riemann on the shape of space and what creates it. Reading packet available at this link.

Class 6 (August 24)

AI, LLMs and Conclusions — Contrasting human discovery with the method by which machine “learning” takes place.
Reading packet available here.