Ancient ethics and contemporary challenges

2 July 2024, online workshop (MS Teams). Organised by Alex Long and Jordi Pia Comella. To get the meeting link, please email Alex Long agl10@st-andrews.ac.uk. Schedule Times provided for both French and UK time zones. 11.00 (France), 10.00 (UK): Thomas Bénatouïl: “The theater analogy, Social roles and our societies” 11.30 (France), 10.30 (UK): Carlos Lévy:…

Work-in-progress papers in Ancient Philosophy

19 July 2024, online (MS Teams). Informal event hosted by the Classics-Philosophy reading group.To get the meeting link, email Alex Long agl10@st-andrews.ac.uk. Schedule 10.00 Alex Long, “Divine Virtue and Tripartition in Plato’s Timaeus and Laws“ 10.45 Christos Panayides, “The Sight-Lovers of Republic V and Plato’s Critique of their Ontology” 11.30 break 11. 45 Mehmet Erginel, “Plato on the Pains of…

The Northern Association for Ancient Philosophy – Annual Meeting

11 – 12 April 2023Arts Lecture Theatre, St Andrews. Booking Attendance is free and open to all.Registration is required.This event is wheelchair accessible. Contact: Margaret Hampson, mrh8@st-andrews.ac.uk orAlex Long, agl10@st-andrews.ac.uk Programme Tuesday 11 April 1.30 Welcome 2-3 Ellisif Wasmuth (Essex)Outside the Cave: Plato on Self-Knowledge 3.10-3.50 I Xuan Chong (St Andrews)Re-reading NE VI.12-13 4.20-5.20 Peter Adamson (Munich)The Bitter Pill: Lady Philosophy…

The Soul in Ancient Philosophy

We are delighted to announce our upcoming graduate conference on ‘The Soul in Ancient Philosophy’ taking place at the University of St Andrews, Scotland on the 11th and 12th of October 2019. Introduction The soul has been of central importance in the ancient philosophical tradition, from the earliest Greek thinkers to the Neoplatonists. For ancient…