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Call for papers : West Coast Plato Workshop on Laws X

West Coast Plato Workshop on Laws X Call For Papers: The West Coast Workshop, on Platos Laws X, will meet in Tucson at the University of Arizona May 2-3, 2015. Julia Annas and Tony Long will be our keynote speakers. We invite scholars to submit abstracts of papers they would like to present by December 15, 2014. Abstracts (which will be blind-reviewed) should be submitted to Rachana Kamtekar (kamtekar [at] email.arizona.edu) or George Rudebusch (George.Rudebusch [at] nau.edu). Each paper will have a commentator, so finished papers will need to be sent to commentators by March 15. There is no registration fee, and the conference is open to all, but please let us know by March 15 if you plan to attend, so we can make local arrangements. Please contact us with any questions: Rachana Kamtekar or George Rudebusch.

Olivier RENAUT2020-05-25T10:28:14+00:00Categories: Announcements, Previous Conferences|

Roberto Luca : Platone e la sapienza antica

Roberto Luca, Platone e la sapienza antica, Matematica, filosofia, armonia, Marsilio Editori, Venezia, pp. 160, 1° ed.2014 , ISBN: 978-88-317-1855-4 Il saggio delinea un Platone erede di un'antica "sapienza mediterranea", la cui origine risale alla cultura sacerdotale egizia. Chiave di volta è l'Epinomide che racchiude l'essenza del pensiero platonico, articolata intorno a tre aspetti: matematica, filosofia e armonia. È attraverso gli studi in queste discipline che il filosofo si avvicina al pensiero divino, nella conclusione che l'unico metro "vero" è appunto quello del dio. Momento cruciale, nell'interpretazione del testo, è il "passo matematico" epinomideo, la cui interpretazione, agevolata da Aristotele, implica la conoscenza e il coordinamento degli spunti presenti in tutta l'opera platonica. The essay talks about Plato as a heir and witness of an antique “mediterranean knowledge”, that finds in the priestly egyptian culture its origin and its fulcrum. The keystone is the Epinomis, the one who face and express the essence of [...]

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“CONRADO EGGERS LAN” PRIZE

International Plato Society Best Dissertation on Plato “Conrado Eggers Lan” Prize Call for submissions Conrado Eggers Lan was Ancient Philosophy Professor at the Universities of Buenos Aires, Heidelberg and Autónoma de México (UNAM). Co-founder of the International Plato Society and host of the First Symposium Platonicum held in Mexico City in 1986. In accordance with its mission to promote Platonic studies throughout the world as well as communication between scholars of diverse disciplines working on Plato and the publication of books and series on Plato, the International Plato Society is glad to announce the institution of the Conrado Eggers Lan Prize for outstanding dissertations in the field of Platonic studies. We invite submissions for the best dissertation that resulted in a Ph.D. degree being awarded between January 1st, 2011 and December 31st, 2013. The submissions will be judged by a special Committee appointed by the IPS Editorial Board. The prize-winning [...]

Olivier RENAUT2018-04-14T13:29:02+00:00Categories: Announcements, Conrado Eggers Lan Prize|

Etudes Platoniciennes X

Nous avons le plaisir de vous annoncer la parution du numéro X des Etudes Platoniciennes sur la plateforme d'OpenEdition avec la participation du Cleo à l'adresse suivante : http://etudesplatoniciennes.revues.org Le numéro X des Etudes Platoniciennes est le premier numéro d'une série consacrée au thème "Platon et ses prédécesseurs" qui fut l'objet des recherches présentées au Séminaire d'Études Platoniciennes de 2009 à 2012. Ce numéro a pour thème la τέχνη : quel rôle la τέχνη, représentée ici par la médecine et la musique, joue-t-elle dans l’Antiquité sur la pensée philosophique, en particulier celle de Platon ? Comment les discours et les savoirs techniques et artisanaux se trouvent-ils intégrés, déplacés, transposés dans le dispositif platonicien de telle sorte qu'ils y restent actifs, voire qu'ils y puisent une énergie nouvelle et se voient ainsi susceptibles, à travers le texte platonicien, de produire des effets renouvelés sur la postérité ? A l'horizon de cette enquête se trouve une [...]

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O. RENAUT, Platon, La Médiation des émotions

O. RENAUT, Platon : La Médiation des émotions: L'éducation du thymos dans les dialogues, Paris, J. Vrin, « Histoire des doctrines de l’antiquité classique », 2014. 376 p. ISBN : 978-2-7116-2530-7 WorldCat •BookFinder Les émotions constituent un défi dans l’éducation platonicienne. Elles sont des réactions aux valeurs du bien, du beau, du juste, et elles les véhiculent dans l’action. Que les affects et les émotions n’entravent pas la moralité de l’agent est une première étape dans l’éducation; mais qu’ils la soutiennent en est une seconde, et telle est la tâche du philosophe, du législateur et du pédagogue. La présente étude répond à la question de savoir ce qui dans l’âme individuelle et collective doit être éduqué et par quels moyens. Platon établit une psychologie morale et politique en prenant soin de cerner un intermédiaire, le thymos, entre les différents pôles de la vie psychique que sont la raison et le désir. Dans les dialogues, Platon fait du [...]

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Call for abstracts : Platonic Moral Realism

MIDTERM MEETING OF THE INTERNATIONAL PLATO SOCIETY EMORY UNIVERSITY ATLANTA, GEORGIA, USA MARCH 13-15, 2015 PLATONIC MORAL REALISM The committee invites papers on Plato’s and the Platonic tradition’s positions on the philosophical thesis that values—such as goodness or justice—are objective. The metaphysical thesis that such “Forms” as the Good or the Just enjoy an existence independent of human opinions or social arrangements is generally taken to entail the objectivity of certain human values. Possible paper topics include the metaphysical grounding for these values or for the virtues, method(s) of discovering and explicating the nature of moral values and virtues, and the means of coming to possess or partake in them. Further, was Plato able to answer the Sophists’ arguments for moral relativism? Does he have conceptual resources to answer the arguments of contemporary relativists? We construe the subject broadly and will consider papers on any Platonic dialogue or any work [...]

Olivier RENAUT2020-05-25T10:28:21+00:00Categories: Announcements, Previous Conferences, Regional meetings|

Platonica Minora, Dubia et Spuria. The Unknown Plato : Shorter, Dubious and Spurious Works in the Platonic Corpus

Posted by G. Cornelli Platonica Minora, Dubia et Spuria The Unknown Plato: Shorter, Dubious and Spurious Works in the Platonic Corpus Series Editor: Richard McKirahan Editorial Board: John Dillon, David Sedley, Voula Tsouna Publisher: Parmenides Publishing This series is devoted to writings associated with Plato (including those dubbed dubious or spurious) that have received comparatively little attention. Volumes in the series may be commentaries, monographs, collections of articles or proceedings of conferences devoted to one or more of these works. Designed for scholars and advanced students, the series will make these works better known in their own right through studies characterized by rigorous and up-to-date scholarship presented in an accessible manner. Proposals and inquiries should be submitted to the series editor at rmckirahan<at>pomona.edu.

Olivier RENAUT2020-05-25T10:28:32+00:00Categories: Announcements, Previous Conferences|

Call for papers – Plato and Xenophon: Comparative Studies

Plato and Xenophon: Comparative Studies Despite the prime importance of Plato, and the historical value and intrinsic interest of Xenophon, relations between these two students of Socrates remain a relatively unexplored area in contemporary research. We seek to fill this gap by building on valuable work that has been done recently in clarifying Xenophon’s philosophical positions and bringing his writings into closer relation with Plato’s. L. A. Dorion’s recently completed commentary on the Memorabilia and his just published volume of collected essays on Xenophon’ Socrates are among the prime examples of the recent flowering of studies on Xenophon and Xenophon’s Socrates. Their appearance provides us with an excellent opportunity to take stock of where the comparative study of Plato and Xenophon stands, and where we should take it from here. Our conference calls for papers that further this project by elucidating concepts found in Xenophon’s writings and bringing them into relationship [...]

Olivier RENAUT2020-05-25T10:28:37+00:00Categories: Announcements, Events, Previous Conferences|

Plato Bibliography 2012-2013 by Luc Brisson, CNRS Paris

Cette bibliographie, réalisée sur le modèle de celles de Lustrum, se réduit à deux listes: une liste des éditions et traductions des œuvres de Platon, et une liste de titres de travaux sur Platon et sur ses œuvres, toutes deux classées par ordre alphabétique des noms d'auteur. Ces listes sont précédées d'un inventaire complet des sources: périodiques, actes de congrès, mélanges, recueils, inventaire auquel on se reportera pour localiser avec précision tous les articles énumérés. Cette bibliographie ne comprend cependant ni commentaire ni inventaire de comptes rendus ni index analytique. Mon but a été de dresser la liste la plus complète et la plus précise possible des travaux sur Platon et sur ses œuvres publiés en 2012 et en 2013. Il a cependant été tenu compte de tous les travaux antérieurs non mentionnés dans les précédentes bibliographies. Je tiens à exprimer ma gratitude à l'égard de Sébastien Grignon qui m'a permis de consulter les épreuves du fascicule 82 [...]

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25-27 April 2014, Regional IPS meeting: “Plato and Rhetoric,” Tokyo, Japan

International Symposium “Plato and Rhetoric” organized by the JSPS Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Project Organizing Committee: Noburu Notomi (Keio University), Yuji Kurihara (Tokyo Gakugei University), Satoshi Ogihara (Tohoku University) From the evening of 25 to 27 April 2014 Venue: Raiosha Building, Hiyoshi Campus, Keio University, Yokohama <http://www.keio.ac.jp/en/maps/hiyoshi.html> Rooms: Symposium Space (1st fl.): Opening, Plenary, Parallel A Large Meeting Room (2nd fl.): Parallel B Regional Meeting of the International Plato Society The JSPS Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Project Plato is usually thought to be hostile to rhetoric in contrast to philosophy. However, we can observe that his dialogues are deeply embedded in the rhetorical tradition: in particular, the Apology of Socrates (forensic) and Menexenus (epitaphic). Speakers of the dialogues make much use of rhetorical skills to persuade others. Even the Gorgias and Phaedrus, the two main examinations of rhetoric, seem to propose the genuine art of rhetoric (which may be dialectic). In this conference, we would like to re-examine the notion and [...]

Olivier RENAUT2020-05-25T10:28:42+00:00Categories: Announcements, Previous Conferences, Regional meetings|Tags: Rhetoric|