The 2nd Asia Regional Meeting of the International Plato Society

International Conference

“Forming the Soul: Plato and his Opponents”

 

This conference will be the first academic activity of the International Plato Society taking place in Taiwan (and in the Chinese-speaking world). The conference will be hosted in Chinese Culture University, Taipei, Taiwan, from 20th to 22nd April 2018.

More information and the last version of the program are available at https://sites.google.com/view/ips-asia-2018

 

There will be three invited speeches:

  • Debra Nails (Michigan State University) : Forms and the Psyche
  • Nickolas Pappas (City College and Graduate Center, CUNY) : What Becomes of a Soul: Hope for a Philosophical City in the Myth of Er
  • Noburu Notomi (Tokyo University; IPS ex-president) : Why Soul Matters: Reconsidering the Philosophical Contexts of Plato’s On Soul

 

And the selected papers contributed by scholars from Asia and other regions:

 

[metaphysics & epistemology]

  • Liliana Carolina Sánchez Castro (University of São Paulo), The Aristotelian Criticism to the Conception of the Soul as a Self-Mover
  • Teng He (Bonn University), Soul as a Harmony? — A Reflex on Aristotle’s Comment on Timaeus 35a-37c

 

[ethics & politics]

  • Jong Hwan Lee (University of Seoul), Saving Callicles in the Gorgias
  • Sungwoo Park (Seoul National University), Politics of Soul-Care in Plato’s Alcibiades

 

[art and emotions]

  • Mai Oki-Suga (University of Tübingen), Forming the Soul with Mousiké: How Can We Be Free from Stásis?
  • Makoto Sekimura (Hiroshima City University), Lexis and Formation of the Soul in Plato’s Republic
  • André Rehbinder (EDITTA, Paris-Sorbonne University), The Pain of the Enamoured Soul in the Palinode of Plato’s Phaedrus

 

[soul’s process of learning ]

  • I-Kai Jeng (National Taiwan University), On the Unity of Courage and Modesty in the Theaetetus
  • Ikko Tanaka (J. F. Oberlin University), On the Assimilation to the Forms in Plato’s Republic 6
  • Sheng-Yu Peng (Taiwan Baptist Christian Seminary), Dialectic of Love and Beauty in the Ever-Moving Soul: An Epistemological and Ethical Survey in Plato’s Phaedrus
  • Yoon Cheol Lee (Seoul National University), The Sophist for Soul in Plato
  • Yip-Mei Loh (Chung Yuan Christian University), The Dialectical Development between Self-Knowledge and Self-Ignorance in Plato’s Dialogues

 

[the soul with the body]

  • Akira Kawashima (Tohoku University), Tripartite Psychology in Plato’s Republic
  • Yu-Jung Sun (University of Paris Pantheon-Sorbonne), The Myth of Incarnation in Plato’s Phaedrus: A Partitioned and Disincarnated Soul
  • Lee M. J. Coulson (University of Sydney), The Dyadic Ontology for Platonic Souls: A Way to Transcend Space and Time
  • Hoyoung Yang (Seoul National University), Bridging the Gap between the Intelligible and the Perceptible

 

[soul and the forms]

  • Suzanne Obdrzalek (Claremont McKenna College), Knowledge as Assimilation in Plato’s Phaedo
  • Van Tu (University of Michigan), The Deathless, Imperishable, and Formless Soul: Phaedo 102a10-107b10

 

[forming the philosopher’s soul]

  • Satoshi Ogihara (Tohoku University), Education-related Compulsion in Plato’s Republic
  • Heon Kim (Seoul National University), Psukhagōgia and Epimeleia tēs Psukhēs between Plato and Isocrates

 

 

Venue: Xiao Feng Memorial Hall (曉峰紀念館), Chinese Culture University (55 Hwa-Kang Road, Yang-Ming-Shan, Taipei 11114, Taiwan.)

 

Organizing Committee (in alphabetical order):

Hua-kuei Ho (何畫瑰), Chinese Culture University, Taiwan.

Sung-Hoon Kang (姜聖勳), Seoul National University, Korea.

Yuji Kurihara (栗原裕次), Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan; Representative for Asia, Australia, and Africa of the IPS.

Chun-Liong Ng (黃俊龍), National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan.

Satsuki Tasaka (田坂さつき), Rissho University, Japan.

 

Sponsored by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Taiwan and Chinese Culture University, Taiwan.