Past Events – International Plato Society

“Forming the Soul : Plato and his Opponents” – 2nd Asia Regional Meeting of the IPS

April 20, 2018 - April 22, 2018

Chinese Culture University, Taipei, Taiwan 55 Huagang Road, Shilin District
Taipei, 11114 Taïwan

April 20th-22th // “Forming the Soul : Plato and his Opponents” – 2nd Asia Regional Meeting of the IPS 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 [...]

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Plato’s heritage in historical perspective: intellectual transformations and new research strategies

August 28, 2018 - August 30, 2018

Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia embankment river Moyka, 48
Sankt-Petersburg, 191186 Russie, Fédération de

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Plato’s heritage in historical perspective: intellectual transformations and new research strategies (St. Petersburg, August 28th-30th 2018) The International Plato Society (IPS) is pleased to announce the colloquium “Plato’s heritage in historical perspective: intellectual transformations and new research strategies”, which will take place in St. Petersburg, Russia on the 28th and 30th of August 2018. The colloquium will serve as a platform for the IPS Executive Committee’s mid-term meeting. The study of Plato’s heritage is a way of diagnosing modernity – in so far as it is made explicit in philosophical discourse. This is precisely why intellectual transformations and new research strategies are relevant themes for both international and Russian Plato studies. We propose the following topics for the colloquium: The history of Plato interpretation as an element of the evolution of European culture. Different periods and tendencies of interpretive programs. Schools of thought and intellectual trends which shaped and determined the study of Plato in the [...]

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