Activities in Spring 2024
March 20, 4:30pm–6:30pm, Jan Szaif (UC Davis), “Aristotelian Ethics in the 2nd Century BCE: Critolaus on the Human Telos”
March 27, 4:30pm–6:00pm, Gabriel Richardson Lear, “The Straightedge of Virtue: Aristotle on the Rational Significance of Beauty-in-Action”
April 3, 4:30pm–6:00pm, John Muller, TBD
April 24, 4:30pm–6:30pm, Claudia Yau (Northwestern), TBD
May 8, 4:30pm–6:00pm, Carol Kowara, TBD
May 15, 4:30pm-6:pm, Stephen Cunniff, “Why is the Human Being a Naturally Political Animal? Aristotle on Friendship, Justice, and Complete (Practical) Virtue”
Activities in Winter 2024
January 31, 4:30pm–6:00pm, Nora McCann, “Self-mover or Subtle Cause? Socrates’s Different Arguments for the Immortality of the Soul”.
Feburary 28, 4:30pm–6:00pm, Sarale Ben Asher, “Recollection and the Idea of Equality in the Phaedo”
March 1-2, 9:00am (Social Science 122), conference on Phronesis, (https://linguistics.uchicago.edu/events/phronesis-reflections-rationality-and-practical-wisdom)
Activities in Autumn 2023
Oct. 11 , 4:30pm–6:00pm, Qianxun Feng, “The Concept of πάθος and the Division of Pleasure in Plato’s Philebus”
October 25, 4:30pm–6pm, L. K. Gustin Law, “An Epistemic-Functional Account of Cause in Aristotle”
Nov. 4, 9:00am-6:00pm, MEANING AND MORALITY: A conference on ancient Greek and Roman philosophy in honor of Elizabeth Asmis (Swift Lecture Hall)
Nov. 15, 4:30pm–6pm, Haun Saussy, “Plastic Before Plastic: Molding and Shaping in Republic” (Foster 305, co-sponsored with social thought colloquium)
December 1, 4pm-5:30pm, Cinzia Arruzza, “Looking at the Black Sea: Genê and Civic Theôria in Plato’s Laws” (Neubauer Collegium’s Forum Room, 5701 S. Woodlawn Avenue)
Autumn 2022
Week 1, Sept. 28, 4:30–6pm: Ermioni Prokopaki, “Relativism in Hiding: Why We Should not Attempt to Salvage the Dream Theory.”
Week 2, Oct. 5, 4:30–6pm: Translation Group.
Week 3, Oct. 12, 4:30–6:30pm: Jonathan Fine (Hawaii at Manoa), “Of Pots and Platonic Inquiry.”
Week 4, Oct. 19–21: Three talks from Victor Caston (Michigan)
- Oct. 19, 4:30–6:30pm: “The Stoics on Mental Representation.”
- Oct. 20, 3:30–5:30pm: “The Veil of Perception.” **In Stuart 105.**
- Oct. 21, 10am–12pm: “Aristotle on Illusions, Hallucinations, and Dreams.” **In Saieh Hall for Economics 146.**
Week 5, Oct. 26, 4:30–6pm: Translation Group.
Week 6, Nov. 2, 4:30–6pm: Translation Group.
Week 7, Nov. 9, 4:30–6pm: Jiakai Zhang, “The Lofty Philosopher and the Socratic Philosopher in Plato’s Theaetetus.”
Week 8, Nov. 16, 4:30–6pm: Translation Group.
Week 9, Nov. 23: Thanksgiving.
Week 10, Nov. 30, 4:30–6pm: Josh Trubowitz, “Truth and the Proper Objects of Sense.”
Spring 2022
Week 1 (March 30): Glenn Most (UChicago), “On the Relation between Xenophanes’ Hexametric and Elegaic Poetry.”
Week 3 (April 13): Alex Long (St. Andrew’s), “Phusis in Plato’s Timaeus.”
Week 4 (April 20): Josh Trubowitz (UChicago), “Disclosure and Orientation: Perception and Pleasure in De Anima 3.7.”
Week 8 (May 18): Rory Hanlon (UChicago), “Aristotelian Moral Psychology as Psychic Ophthalmology.”
Week 9 (May 25): Noah Chafets (UChicago), “The Good and its Guises: Desire and Motivation in Plato’s Gorgias and Republic.” *not in Wieboldt 408*
Winter 2022
Week 3 (Jan 26): Sarale Ben Asher (UChicago), “Definition as Reflected Knowledge.”
Week 5 (Feb 9): Emily Fletcher (UW-Madison), TBA
Week 6 (Feb 16): Matthew Landauer (UChicago), “Political Parts and Wholes: Aristotelian Political Community and the Idea of a Well-Mixed Constitution.”
Week 8 (March 2): Patricia Marechal (Northwestern), “Women, Spirit, and Authority in Plato and Aristotle.”
Autumn 2021
Week 2 (Oct 6): Antoine Pageau-St-Hilaire, “Formal and Numerical Unity in Aristotle’s Metaphysics Δ 6.”
Week 6 (Nov 3): John Proios, “Returning to Reason: The Philebus on Pure Pleasure and the Restoration of Human Nature.”
Week 7 (Nov 10): Ermioni Prokopaki, “The Dream Theory (201c-206c) in Plato’s Theaetetus.”
Week 8 (Nov 17): Patricia Marechal (Northwestern), TBA.
Week 10 (Dec 1): Justin Vlasits (UIC), “The Dangers of Sects: Lucian, Galen, and Sextus Empiricus.”
Spring 2020
Week 1 (April 8): Prof. Gabriel Richardson Lear (Chicago), “Plato on the Role of Reason in Desiring the Kalon”
Week 2 (April 15): Dr. Bryan Reece, “From the Standard Problem to the Hard Problem of Happiness in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics”
Week 3 (April 22): Translation group
Week 4 (April 29): Josh Trubowitz, “Aristotle on Why Animals Cannot Be Happy”
Week 5 (May 6): Translation group
Week 6 (May 13): Aparna Ravilochan, “On Animal Form: Revising Aristotle’s Hylomorphic Generation”
Week 7 (May 20): Jozef Majernik, “Gods and Philosophers: The Ancient Übermenschen”
Week 8 (May 27): Rory Hanlon, “Aristotle’s Unified Soul: The Figure-Soul Analogy and its Context”
Week 9 (June 3): Amber Ace, ‘The Reproduction of Justice in Plato’s Republic“
Week 10 (June 10): Translation group
Winter 2020
Week 1 (January 8): Translation group (discussion leader: Josh Trubowitz)
Week 2 (January 15): Antoine Pageau St-Hilaire, “The problem of Eros in Xenophon’s Education of Cyrus”
Week 3 (January 22): Translation group (discussion leader: Serena Lai)
Week 4 (January 29): Isabela Ferreira, “Living Being: The Stranger’s Account of Ousia in the Sophist”
Week 5 (February 5): Ermioni Prokopaki, “Models of Knowledge in the Theaetetus: The Case of Perception”
Week 6 (February 12): Aparna Ravilochan, “Revising Hylomorphism in Aristotle’s Generation of Animals” (to be rescheduled)
Week 7 (February 19): Translation group (discussion leader: Sarale Ben Asher)
Week 8 (February 26): Prof. Anthony Price (Birkbeck), “Aristotelian Continence Reconsidered”
Week 9 (March 4): Translation group (discussion leader: Ermioni Prokopaki)
Week 10 (March 11): Dr. Kendall Sharp (Graham School), “Footprints of Memory: Conversational Address and Literary Dialogue in Plato’s Phaedrus”
Winter 2019 Events
January 11th: Serena Lai (UChicago): The Philosopher’s Virtue: Phaedo 68c-69c/
January 18th: Sarale Ben Asher (UChicago): Poetry’s Tragic Flaws: An Essay on Republic 10
February 8th: Jason Rheins (Loyola): Deus ex Caverna? Theology and Teleology in the “Subterranean Argument” of Aristotle’s Lost De Philosophia
February 15th: Elena Comay del Junco (UChicago): ‘All things ordered toward one’: A reading of Metaphysics xii
February 22nd: Jessica Moss (NYU): Plato’s Objects-First Epistemology
March 8th: Leon Wash (UChicago): Phusis in Empedocles
Fall 2018 Events
*Thursday* October 18th: Verity Harte (Yale): Plato’s Butcher: Realism and Platonic Classification.
October 19th and 20th: Plato’s Philosophy: Eros, Polis, Cosmos (Biennial Conference Sponsored by the Chicago Area Consortium in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy)
November 16th: Antoine Pageau St-Hilaire (UChicago):Play in the Choral Education to Moral Virtue in Plato’s Laws
November 30th: Katherine Meadows (MIT): Aristotle’s Priorities in the Metaphysics .
Spring 2018 Events
March 28th: Agnes Callard (University of Chicago)
Socratic Refutation
April 4th: Michael Moore (University of Chicago)
Cicero’s Plato’s Forms
April 11th: Jed Atkins (Duke)
Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism in Cicero’s De officiis
April 13th-14th: University of Chicago Graduate Student Conference in Ancient Philosophy— Learning and Teaching in Ancient Thought
April 18th: Amber Ace (University of Chicago)
Atomic Immortality: Isonomia and the Epicurean Gods
May 9th: Matt Landauer (University of Chicago)
Platonic Institutionalism: on Assemblies and Drinking Parties in the Republic and the Laws
May 16th: Ermioni Prokopaki (University of Chicago)
Dialectic, Analogia & the Mathematics of the Divided Line (Rep. 6.509d-511e)
May 23rd: Anne Siebels Peterson (University of Utah)
What’s the Matter with Animal Generation? Numerical Unity and Hylomorphic Unity in Aristotle
May 30th: Rory Hanlon (University of Chicago)
Moving Parts: Aristotle on Desire, Locomotion, and Parts of Soul (De Anima III.9-10)
Winter 2018 Events
January 10th: Josh Mendelsohn (University of Chicago)
Aristotle on the Necessity of First Principles
January 24th: Brad Inwood (Yale)
Stoicism for Non-Sages
February 7th: Emilio Comay del Junco (University of Chicago)
Aristotle on Comparability
February 28th: Isabela Ferreira (University of Chicago)
What Paradigmatism? Understanding Plato’s Models
March 7th: Thomas Pashby (University of Chicago)
Aristotle’s Theory of Time
Fall 2017 Events
October 25th: Christopher Roser (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Rational Persuasion in Plato’s Gorgias
November 8th: Rik Peters (University of Chicago)
The Speed of Thought in Epicurean Philosophy and the Greek Imaginary
November 15th: Arnold Brooks (University of Chicago)
A Fault in Aristotle’s Physics
November 29th: Christopher Moore (The Pennsylvania State University)
Charmides and the Meaning of Sôphrosunê
Spring 2017 Events
March 29: Pieter Sjoerd Hasper (Indiana University Bloomington)
Aristotle’s Argument from Universal Mathematics against the Existence of Platonic Forms
April 5: Emily Katz (Michigan State University)
Geometrical Objects as Properties of Sensibles
April 7–8: Second Annual Graduate Student Conference in Ancient Philosophy: Argument in Ancient Thought
April 19: Arnold Brooks (University of Chicago)
The Partwise Argument
April 26: Aparna Ravilochan (University of Chicago)
From One Generation to the Next: Consistency and Explanatory Power in Aristotle’s Theory of Heredity
May 17: Rory Hanlon (University of Chicago)
Aristotle on Perceptual Judgment and the Unity of the Perceptual Soul
May 24: Oliver Primavesi (Munich)
Textual criticism seminar on De Motu Animalium
Winter 2017 Events
February 1: Jonathan Beere (Humboldt) and Ben Morison (Princeton)
A Mathematical Form of Knowing How in Greek Geometry: the Nature of the Problem-Propositions
February 8: Noah Chafets (University of Chicago)
Appetite, Motivation and Desire for the Good in the Republic
February 15: Michael Moore (University of Chicago)
Beauty in the Beasts: The Final Cause and Beauty in Aristotle’s Biology
February 22: Leon Wash (University of Chicago)
One Learned to Grow from Many: Nature, Teleology and Metaphor in Empedocles
March 1: Josh Mendelsohn (University of Chicago)
Aristotle’s Durability Argument for the Necessity of What is Known
March 8: Edward Halper (University of Georgia)
The Principles and Elements of Sensible Ousiai in Metaphysics Lambda
Autumn 2016 Events
October 5: Rebekah Spearman (University of Chicago)
Law and Violence in Pindar Fr. 169 and Laws 690
October 14–15: Biennial conference of the Chicago Area Consortium
Evil? The Bad, the Ugly, and the Depraved in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy
October 26: Ermioni Prokopaki (University of Chicago)
The Method of Hypothesis: Mathematics & Dialectic
November 2: No meeting
November 16: David Orsbon (University of Chicago)
The Invention of Natura: Macrobius, Nature, and Allegory
November 30: Serena Lai (University of Chicago)
How Aristotle Gets by in Metaphysics Gamma
Spring 2016 Events
March 30: Arnold Brooks (University of Chicago)
Zeno’s Arrow, As It Stands
April 13: Luke Parker (University of Chicago)
Kosmos without cosmogony: Heraclitus and Milesian philosophy
May 4: Garrett Allen (University of Chicago)
Inside and Outside The Phaedrus
May 18: David Charles (Yale University)
Aristotle: Hylomorphism and harmony
May 19-20: Graduate student conference in Ancient Philosophy
May 25: Sean Kelsey (University of Notre Dame)
Socrates in the Gorgias
June 8: David Ebrey (Northwestern University)
The Cloak Maker Objection and the Final Immortality Argument
Winter 2016 Events
January 13: Emilio Comay del Junco (University of Chicago)
“Goodness and the unity of teleology”
January 27: Dhananjay Jagannathan (University of Chicago)
“Aristotle on Knowing the Ultimate End”
February 25: Joy Connolly (New York University)
“Another Anxiety of Influence: Imitating Virtue in 18th Century Revivals of Rome”
Special meeting co-sponsored with the Rhetoric and Poetics Workshop
March 9: John Ellison (University of Chicago)
“Law and Justice in Plato’s Republic“
March 16: David Sedley (Cambridge)
Socrates’ “Second Voyage” (Plato, Phaedo 99d-102a)
Autumn 2015 Events
October 7: Joseph Bjelde (né Barnes) (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)
“What is Meno’s question about the Value of Knowledge?”
October 21: Aryeh Kosman (Haverford College)
As part of Professor Kosman’s seminar series on his book, The Activity of Being (HUP: 2013) [handout].
November 18: Serena Lai (The University of Chicago)
“On an Aristotelian Science of Nature: the unity of phusikē”
December 2: Joshua Mendelsohn (The University of Chicago)
“Epagōgē and syllogismos in Posterior Analytics I.1 (and beyond)” [handout]
Spring 2015 Events
1 April – Noah Chafets (CST) “The Good and its Guises: Desire in the Gorgias”
22 April – Willie Costello (Toronto) “The theory of ingredient causation in the Phaedo”
23 April – Mariska Leunissen (UNC) “Aristotle on the biological imperfections and the moral deficiencies of women” (Philosophy Department CAS Distinguished Visitor Series), Rosenwald 405, 4.45-6.45pm
6 May – Rusty Jones (Harvard) “The Real Challenge of the Republic”
13 May – Jenny Strauss Clay (UVA) on Parmenides, Empedocles, and the epic tradition (Cosponsored with Rhetoric & Poetics)
3 June – A. Brooks (Philosophy) “Two Arguments against Atomism in Physics 6″ :: paper
Winter 2015 Events
28 January – E. Fletcher (Wisconsin-Madison) “Plato on False and Deceptive Pleasures”
5 February – Clara Auvray-Assayas (University of Rouen) “Cicero, Renaissance Humanism and Modern Reception of Ancient Philosophy”, co-sponsored with Rhetoric & Poetics (NB: unusual time and place: 3-5pm Franke Institute)
11 February – D. Jagannathan (Chicago) “Knowledge and Virtuous Choice in Aristotle”
25 February – C. Shields (Notre Dame) “A Series of Goods”
4 March – Jana Bleckmann (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) “The Use of Ambivalent Impressions in Plato’s Republic” :: paper
11 March – A. Brooks (Chicago) POSTPONED UNTIL SPRING QUARTER
Autumn 2014 Events (Partial Schedule)
October 1 – Prof. James Wilberding (Ruhr-Universität Bochum), “The Influence of Metaphysics in Embryology: The Case of Neoplatonism” :: handout
October 8 – Phaedo translation group, 57a1-59c7
October 15 – Phaedo translation group, 59c8-61c1
October 22 – Prof. Rachana Kamtekar (Arizona), “Rational desire and (un-)willing action” :: paper
October 29 – Phaedo translation group
November 5 – Phaedo translation group
November 7-8 – Biennial Chicago Area Consortium in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Conference, The Human and the Divine
November 19 – Joshua Mendelsohn (Philosophy) “Functional explanations of the categories: Aristotle’s place in the history of their development” :: paper
The reading group will not meet Wed 26 November, but will resume the following week.
2013-2014 Schedule
Spring Quarter AGARP Talks
April 2 – Dhananjay Jagannathan (Philosophy), “Practical Wisdom and Learning to Rule Well in Aristotle’s Politics” *NB: there will be no paper precirculated for this talk
April 23 – Noah Chafets (Social Thought), “Desire, Craft, and Persuasion in the Gorgias”
May 7 – Luke Parker (Classics & Social Thought), “Text and Poetics in Heraclitus (and Plato)” == Joint meeting with the Rhetoric & Poetics Workshop ==
May 14 – Susan Sauvé Meyer (Penn), “Stoic orexis: the psychology of action and passion”
May 28 – Rachel Barney (Toronto), “Three kinds of Socratic courage” | draft paper
Other Spring Quarter Events
May 23-24 – Conference on Aristotle’s Metaphysics and Logic
Translation Group
We will be reading Plotinus, Ennead IV.3, “Problems concerning the Soul, part 1” over the course of the year in weeks without talks. Translation meetings are led (usually) by graduate students who make a brief presentation to introduce each week’s selection. All participants then take turns translating and discussing the text. [Greek Text (OCT, Henry-Schwyzer)]
April 9 – IV.3.19-20, 15 (49 lines) led by Leon Wash
April 16 – IV.3.20, 15 – end; 21 (57 lines) led by Dhananjay Jagannathan
April 30 – IV.3.22 – 23, 27 (44 lines) led by Noah Chafets
May 21 – IV.3.23, 27 – end; 24 (48 lines) led by Luke Parker
Winter Quarter AGARP Talks
Jan. 8 – Ben Morison (Princeton), What makes a syllogism perfect?
Friday, Feb. 7, 2.30-4.30pm, STU 209 – Pieter Sjoerd Hasper (Indiana), Aristotle on Experience and Universal Knowledge
Feb. 12 – Ramon Lopez (Political Science, UChicago), Aristotle’s Standard of Justice
Feb. 26 – John Ellison (Social Thought, UChicago), Plato’s Sophist on Truth | draft paper
— jointly sponsored with the Committee on Social Thought Colloquium —
Thursday, Mar. 6, 3.30-5pm – David Wray (Classics, UChicago), Seneca’s Shame
— jointly sponsored with the Rhetoric & Poetics Workshop —
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February 26 – March 1, Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association
list of ancient philosophy sessions
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Translation Group
We will be reading Plotinus, Ennead IV.3, “Problems concerning the Soul, part 1” over the course of the year in weeks without talks. Translation meetings are led (usually) by graduate students who make a brief presentation to introduce each week’s selection. All participants then take turns translating and discussing the text. [Greek Text (OCT, Henry-Schwyzer)]
Jan. 15 – IV.3.9 (51 lines) – led by Noah Chafets
Jan. 22 – IV.3.10 (42 lines) – led by Leon Wash
Jan. 29 – IV.3.11-12, 19 (46 lines) – led by Luke Parker
Feb. 5 – IV.3.12, 19 – 13 ad finem (52 lines) – led by Gabriel Lear
Feb. 19 – IV.3.14-15 (41 lines) – led by Dhananjay Jagannathan
Mar. 5 – IV.3.16-17 (56 lines)
Mar. 12 – IV.3.18-19, 22 (46 lines)
Autumn Quarter Talks
Oct. 2 – Arnold Brooks (Philosophy) | The Problem of Change
Oct. 30 – Bart van Wassenhove (Classics) | Advocatum ista non quaerunt: Admonition, the Sublime and the Seeds of the Virtues in Seneca’s Letters
— jointly sponsored with the Rhetoric & Poetics Workshop —
Nov. 13 – Lloyd Gerson (Toronto) | Plato’s Rational Souls
Dec. 4 – John Wynne (Northwestern) | Stoic Beauty – draft paper
Translation Group
We will be reading Plotinus, Ennead IV.3, “Problems concerning the Soul, part 1” over the course of the year in weeks without talks. Translation meetings are led by graduate students who make a brief presentation to introduce each week’s selection. All participants then take turns translating and discussing the text. [Greek Text (OCT, Henry-Schwyzer)]
Oct. 9 – c. 1 (37 lines) led by Dhananjay Jagannathan (Philosophy) || presentation handout | draft minutes
Oct. 16 – c. 2, 1 – 44 (44 lines) led by Andrew Horne (Classics) || draft minutes
Oct. 23 – c. 2, 44 – 3, 31 (46 lines) led by Noah Chafets (Social Thought) || presentation handout| draft minutes
Nov. 6 – c. 4 (37 lines) led by John Ellison (Social Thought)
Nov. 13, 12-1.30pm – special seminar with Lloyd Gerson
Nov. 20 – cc. 5-6 (52 lines) led by Leon Wash (Classics)
Dec. 11 [Time and location TBD] – c. 7-8, 10 (41 lines) led by Dhananjay Jagannathan (Philosophy)
c. 8, 10 – 60 (50 lines) led by Luke Parker (Classics & Social Thought)
2012-2013 Schedule
Spring Quarter
4/3- Noah Chafets (University of Chicago, Social Thought) “Musical Education, Law and Rhetoric in the ‘Republic'”
Paper can be found here.
4/10- Euthydemus pp. 293-4
4/17- Euthydemus pp. 295-6
4/25- Julia Annas (University of Arizona) “Changing From Within: Plato’s Later Political Thinking”
Paper can be found here.
5/1- David Ebrey (Northwestern University) “Purification in the Phaedo”
Paper can be found here.
5/8- Euthydemus pp. 297-8 (Meeting in Professor Asmis’ office)
5/15- Euthydemus pp. 299-300
5/22- Dhananjay Jagannathan (University of Chicago, Philosophy) “Aristotle on starting from what we know in ethics”
Paper can be found here.
5/29- Euthydemus pp. 301-302
6/5- Michael Crema (University of Chicago, Philosophy) “The Socratic Roots of the Stoic Theory of Kathekonta”
Paper can be found here.
6/12- Euthydemus pp. 303 ff.
2012-2013 Schedule
Winter Quarter
1/9- Euthydemus pp. 280-281
1/16- Euthydemus pp. 282-283
1/23- Jonny Thakkar (University of Chicago) “The Role of Ideals in Plato’s Republic”
1/30- Euthydemus pp. 284-285
2/6- Euthydemus pp. 286-287
2/13- Euthydemus pp. 288-289
2/20- Euthydemus pp. 290-291
2/27- Euthydemus pp. 292-3
3/6- Euthydemus pp.294-5
3/13- Nathan Rothschild (University of Chicago) “One’s Own as Self Invoking and the Educability of τὸ θυμοειδής”
Paper can be found here.
Fall
10/3/12 – Euthydemus – 271-2
10/10/12 – Eric Brown (Washington University in St. Louis) Socrates the Stoic?
10/17/12 – Alex Lee (University of Chicago, Classics) Intellectual Vision and The Role of Patterns in Persuasion
10/24/12 – Euthydemus – 273-4
10/31/12 – Euthydemus – 275-6
11/7/12 – Alex Gottesman (Temple University) “Gossip” and the Public Sphere in Plato’s Magnesia
11/14/12 – Euthydemus – 277-8
11/21/12 – NO MEETING
11/28/12 – André Laks (University of Paris-Sorbonne) Private Matters in Plato’s Laws
12/5/12 – Euthydemus – 279-80
Winter
1/9- Euthydemus 280-281
1/16- Euthydemus 282-283
1/23- Jonny Thakkar (University of Chicago, Social Thought) “The Role of Ideals in Plato’s Republic”
1/30- Euthydemus 284-285
2/6- Euthydemus 286-287
2/13- Euthydemus 288-289
2/20- Euthydemus 290-291
2/27- Euthydemus 292-3
3/6- Euthydemus 294-5
3/13- Nathan Rothschild (University of Chicago, Philosophy) “One’s Own as Self Invoking and the Educability of τὸ θυμοειδής”
Spring
4/3- Noah Chafets (University of Chicago, Social Thought) “Musical Education, Law and Rhetoric in the ‘Republic'”
4/10- Euthydemus 293-4
4/17- Euthydemus 295-6
4/25- Julia Annas (University of Arizona) “Changing From Within: Plato’s Later Political Thinking”
5/1- David Ebrey (Northwestern University) “Purification in the Phaedo”
5/8- Euthydemus 297-8 (Meeting in Professor Asmis’ office)
5/15- Euthydemus 299-300
5/22- Dhananjay Jagannathan (University of Chicago, Philosophy) “Aristotle on starting from what we know in ethics”
5/29- Euthydemus 301-302
6/5- Michael Crema (University of Chicago, Philosophy) “The Socratic Roots of the Stoic Theory of Kathekonta”
6/12- Euthydemus 303 ff.
2011-2012 Schedule
Fall 2011
9/28/11 – On Generation and Corruption – we’ll translate 314a1 – 314b1. An electronic version of the text is available here.
9/29/11 – Bart Van Wassenhove (Classics) — “Ecquid erubescitis? Admonition and Emotion in Seneca’s Epistulae Morales” – 3:30 pm, Classics 21
10/5/11 – On Generation and Corruption – 314b2 – 315a24
10/12/11 – On Generation and Corruption – 315a25 – 316a14
10/19/11 – Jennifer Whiting of the University of Toronto – “Fools’ Pleasures in Plato’s Philebus”
10/26/11 – On Generation and Corruption – 316a5 – 316b34
11/2/11 – On Generation and Corruption – 316b10 – 317a31
11/9/11 – On Generation and Corruption – 317a32 – 318a23
11/16/11 – On Generation and Corruption – 318a13 – 318b33
11/30/11 – Arnold Brooks (Philosophy) – The Dilemma of Physics I.8
12/7/11 – Extended translation session, 4-6 pm: On Generation and Corruption – 318b18 – 319b5
Winter 2012
1/11/12 – James Redfield (faculty, Classics and Social Thought) – Philosophical Egkrateia
1/18/12 – On Generation and Corruption – 319b6 – 320a7
2/1/12 – On Generation and Corruption – 320a8 – 320b12
2/3/12 – Jacob Rosen (Humboldt University) – Essence and End in Aristotle – 11:30 am, Wieboldt 102
2/8/12 – On Generation and Corruption – 320b12 – 321a29
2/15/12 – On Generation and Corruption – 321a29 – 322a4
2/22/12 – Alex Lee (Classics) – The response to dialectical deficiency in the Republic
2/29/12 – Mariska Leunissen of UNC Chapel Hill – Natural Scientific Method in Aristotle’s On Generation and Corruption? (handout)
3/7/12 – On Generation and Corruption – 321b25 – 322a33
Spring 2012
3/28/12 – Arnold Brooks (Philosophy) – Metaphysics and the Law of Non-Contradiction
3/30/12 – 3/31/12 – Workshop on Technē – workshop schedule
Sean Kelsey – Truth and technē (workshop paper)
4/4/12 – Katja Vogt of Columbia University – What is Ignorance? Plato on Presumed Knowledge, Wishful Thinking, and Not Understanding Your Own Thoughts
4/11/12 – Rana Saadi Liebert (Classics) – Pity and Disgust in Plato’s Republic: The Case of Leontius
4/18/12 – On Generation and Corruption – 322b1 – 322b26
4/25/12 – On Generation and Corruption – 322b26 – 323a34
5/2/12 – Noah Chafets (Social Thought) – Auditors and Other Lovers: Rhetoric, Love and Writing in Plato’s Phaedrus
5/9/12 – Dhananjay Jagannathan (Philosophy) – Aristotle on Practical Knowledge and the Starting Points of Ethical Inquiry
5/16/12 – On Generation and Corruption – 323b1 – 324a9
5/23/12 – On Generation and Corruption – 324a9 – 324b4
5/30/12 – Michael Crema (Philosophy) – Stoic Oikeiosis