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SUMMARY:Virtual Socrates Colloquium - Nicholas D. Smith & Irina Deretić: "Summoning Socrates: On Plato's Apology 38c-42a"
DESCRIPTION:The International Society for Socratic Studies is pleased to announce the schedule for the Virtual Socrates Colloquium 2025-2026.\nYou can see the schedule –HERE \nNotice that there is no need to register and all you need to do is join the following Zoom link: https://eu01web.zoom.us/j/63132371340?pwd=nQwGxammbjajdzRSM9ZQXsCLoqfS2C.1\nMeeting ID: 631 3237 1340\nPasscode: 088283 \nThe International Society for Socratic Studies is pleased to invite you to a lecture by Nicholas D. Smith (Lewis & Clark College) and Irina Deretić (University of Belgrade)\, on the 26th of February at 18:00 (Rome Time)\, entitled \nPrejudice at Socrates’ Trial \nAbstract:\nAt his trial\, according to Plato’s account\, Socrates has less than a single day to try to remove or at least cast doubt upon long-standing prejudices that impede his jurors’ responsiveness to rational persuasion. Faced with prejudiced jurors\, Socrates must do his best to persuade them\, but he does not seem to think his chances of success are good (19a5\, 24a3). Even so\, when the jurors reach a verdict in the case\, Socrates is surprised by how close he had come to winning acquittal (36a3-6). In this presentation\, we appraise the ways in which Plato represents Socrates as responding to the prejudices against him\, by the measures regarded as the most effective by contemporary social scientists and journalists who seek to challenge or refute what they see as the effects of misinformation and disinformation. Our conclusion is that such contemporary assessments would find the defense Plato gives to Socrates in the Apology well-crafted and efficacious.\nOur project is textual and philosophical. We take it as a given that Plato represents the defense he offered as having significant success – obviously not enough for him to be acquitted\, but even more than he himself expected to achieve. Plato’s Apology is the only source that reports that the guilty verdict was by such a slim margin\, so perhaps some readers may treat it with skepticism. For our purposes herein\, however\, we will take Plato’s account as our basis. Whatever its value as a historical source\, Plato’s Apology surely deserves a close reading on its own merits. \nBio:\nIrina Deretić is a Full Professor of Philosophy at the University of Belgrade\, where she serves as Head of the Institute of Philosophy and leads the project The History of Serbian Philosophy. Her research focuses on Ancient Greek philosophy\, German hermeneutics\, Serbian philosophy\, virtue ethics\, and literary theory. She has authored six monographs\, including How to Name Being? Logos\, Plato\, Aristotle; From Plato’s Philosophy; Plato’s Philosophical Mythology; and Words and Literature. She has published over 140 scholarly articles in multiple languages – including Serbian\, English\, German\, Spanish\, and Slovenian – and has edited seven academic volumes. Professor Deretić has held visiting professorships in Jena\, Uppsala\, and Vladimir\, and is a member of the Executive Board of the Serbian Philosophical Society. Having already published several papers together with Nicholas D. Smith\, they are continuing their collaboration. \nNicholas D. Smith is the James F. Miller Professor of Humanities (Emeritus) in the departments of Classics and Philosophy at Lewis & Clark College in Portland\, Oregon USA. He is the co-author (with Thomas C. Brickhouse) of Socrates on Trial (Oxford and Princeton 1989)\, Plato’s Socrates (Oxford 1994)\, The Philosophy of Socrates (Westview 2000)\, Plato and the Trial of Socrates (Routledge 2004)\, and Socratic Moral Psychology (Cambridge 2010). He is the sole author of Summoning Knowledge in Plato’s Republic (Oxford 2019) Socrates on Self-Improvement (Cambridge 2021) and is in this project continuing his collaboration with Irina Deretić.
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SUMMARY:Virtual Socrates Colloquium - Sara S. Monoson: "Summoning Socrates: On Plato's Apology 38c-42a"
DESCRIPTION:The International Society for Socratic Studies is pleased to announce the schedule for the Virtual Socrates Colloquium 2025-2026.\nYou can see the schedule HERE \nNotice that there is no need to register and all you need to do is join the following Zoom link: https://eu01web.zoom.us/j/63132371340?pwd=nQwGxammbjajdzRSM9ZQXsCLoqfS2C.1\nMeeting ID: 631 3237 1340\nPasscode: 088283 \nThe International Society for Socratic Studies is pleased to invite you to a lecture by S. Sara Monoson from the Northwestern University\, US\, on the 22nd of January at 18:00 (Rome Time)\, entitled \nSummoning Socrates: On Plato’s Apology 38c-42a \nAbstract:\nMy comments on Apology 38c-42a for ISSS are drawn from a recently completed larger project entitled\, Summoning Socrates. The larger project is a creative re-telling of the trial and death of Socrates in the form a script suitable for reading and reader’s theater (but not performance). It follows Plato’s account of Socrates’ behavior on the days surrounding the pretrial hearing (drawing on Theaetetus\, Euthyphro\, Sophist and Statesman)\, the frantic interest in gossip about Socrates in the weeks between the hearing and trial (found in Symposium) and the actions of Socrates at trial\, in prison and in the face of execution (the action of the Apology\, Crito and Phaedo). Also woven into this retelling is a granular account of the perspective of jurors. I depict the experiences of citizens going through the complex jury selection and trial administration processes (drawing on scholarship across fields on the records of Athenian legal procedures). The re-telling also nods to some details from other sources (e.g.\, Aristophanes\, Xenophon\, Diogenes Laertius) but does not integrate their of alternative substantive arguments. My aim is to illuminate Plato’s depiction\, not recover a historical Socrates. For example\, I end the re-telling with a portrayal of citizens pondering the statue of Socrates in the Pompeion in central Athens by Lysippus commissioned by the Athenians some years after the execution – a detail based on testimony in Diogenes. In general\, my project investigates how far a very thick historical context that includes close attention to legal proceedings (e.g.\, it depicts the conduct of random selection using the kleroterion) can illuminate the practice of philosophy enacted by Socrates in Plato’s texts.\nProducing this dramatized re-telling forced attention to some issues that I suggest should shape interpretation of key elements of Plato’s account of Socratic philosophy. For the ISSS meeting\, I will report on one such example. I will address how this perspective can color the way we read Socrates’ third “speech” in Plato’s Apology\, that is\, the words Plato gives him after the sentencing decision. Is it a “speech” like the two previous addresses (in his defense and regarding the sentencing proposal) as most assume\, or a depiction of some other act? \nBio:\nS. Sara Monoson is Professor of Political Science\, Classics and Philosophy at Northwestern University. She was chair of classics for more than ten years. She holds degrees from Brandeis\, the LSE and Princeton and has been a faculty fellow at ICS and CHS. Her long-standing interest is in investigating how thick historical contextualization can impact our understanding of the philosophical arguments. She is the author of the prize-winning book\, Plato’s Democratic Entanglements: Athenian Politics and the Practice of Philosophy\, and articles on\, for example\, trauma and resilience in Plato’s thought\, Socrates’s military service\, and the place of empirical observation in Aristotle’s theory of slavery. She also works in classical reception studies and has publications on\, for example\, Socrates as a democratic symbol in the 20th century\, American proslavery theorists’ use of Aristotle’s Politics\, a radical American visual artist’s use of Aesop in the 1930s. A methodological study of the attractions of “summoning” as a metaphor for reception will appear in a forthcoming edited volume on the receptions of Aristotle.
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SUMMARY:Virtual Socrates Colloquium - Mario Regali: "Inventing Socrates: Xenophon and the birth of the Sokratikoi logoi"
DESCRIPTION:The International Society for Socratic Studies is pleased to announce the updated schedule for the Virtual Socrates Colloquium 2025-2026. You can see the updated schedule HERE \nNotice that there is no need to register and all you need to do is join the following Zoom link: https://biu-ac-il.zoom.us/j/8062705537 \nThe International Society for Socratic Studies is pleased to invite you to a lecture by Mario Regali from the Università di Napoli “Federico II” on the 20th of November at 18:00 (Rome Time) on the topic \nInventing Socrates: Xenophon and the birth of the Sokratikoi logoi \nAbstract: In the fourth century BCE\, the figure of Socrates gave rise to an unprecedented phenomenon within Greek literary culture: the development of a new literary genre by an intellectual movement. The Socratic writers of Sokratikoi logoi employed literary strategies which largely reveal that no consideration was taken of the performative contexts traditional in Athens’ social and civic life. (Nicolai 2004\, 4–7). In light of this\, studying Socrates as a literary mask – without trying to reconstruct his supposed set of doctrines – offers a promising approach (Dorion 2011). In recent years\, the debate on Xenophon’s Socrates has shifted from a strictly historical view of the character to examining his relationship with Plato’s Socrates. Two main positions have emerged: Dorion (2000\, 63–68) sees Xenophon’s Socrates as an example of enkrateia\, which he considers the primary virtue. This is in sharp contrast with Plato’s Socrates\, who considers sophia as the root of ethical virtues. Conversely\, Johnson (2018) puts forward the hypothesis of an “intertextual Socrates\,” emerging from a synthesis of the various profiles delineated by the Socratics\, without any polemical intent on Xenophon’s part. I will argue that it is the different characterizations of Socrates – particularly the various degrees of knowledge (ἐπιστήμη or σοφία) attributed to his persona – that shape the diverse forms of the new genre of Sokratikoi logoi. Regarding the relationship between Socrates and sophia\, Plato and Xenophon appear to stand at opposite ends of a spectrum ranging from the professed ignorance of Plato’s Socrates to the full possession of ethical knowledge attributed to Socrates by Xenophon.\nDifferent characterizations\, in turn\, affect the form of the writings of Plato and Xenophon. In addition to the question-answer format\, which is typical of Plato\, Xenophon presents us with didactic monologues\, gnomai\, fictitious questions\, and even biographical accounts of Socrates’ erga in which logoi are absent (I 3\, 1\, 5–8; I 4\, 13–19; II 4\, 1–2). These differences\, both in characterization and in literary forms\, stem from different aims in writing: Plato seeks to protreptically guide the reader towards philosophical education in the Academy\, whilst Xenophon transmits his ethical teachings exclusively through his writings. \nBio: Mario Regali is Associate Professor of Greek Literature at the Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II. His research focuses primarily on the dialogues of Plato\, exploring themes such as the literary-poetic framing of philosophical discourse and the persona of Socrates\, as evidenced in his articles Caratterizzazione e protrettica nel Protagora di Platone (2024) and The Mask of Dialogue: on the Unity of Socrates’ Characterization in Plato’s Dialogues (2015). In his most extensive work\, Il poeta e il demiurgo (2012)\, he investigates Plato’s Timaeus and Critias from a philological perspective\, focusing on the literary framework that shapes the dialogues’ philosophical discourse.
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SUMMARY:Virtual Socrates Colloquium - Johann Goeken: "When Socrates drinks like Gorgias: on wine in Xenophon's Symposium"
DESCRIPTION:The International Society for Socratic Studies is pleased to announce the schedule for the Virtual Socrates Colloquium 2025-2026.\nYou can see the schedule HERE \nNotice that there is no need to register and all you need to do is join the following Zoom link: https://biu-ac-il.zoom.us/j/8062705537 \nThe International Society for Socratic Studies is pleased to invite you to a lecture by Johann Goeken from the University of Strasbourg\, on the topic \nWhen Socrates drinks like Gorgias: on wine in Xenophon’s Symposium \nAbstract: Xenophon’s Symposium depicts a symposion held in 422 BC in the house owned by the very wealthy Callias in Piraeus. A detailed examination of the text shows that the entire event is dominated by the rhetoric of the sophists. In this respect\, it should be emphasised that the figure of Gorgias is summoned at two key moments\, by Socrates himself: in the prologue and at the moment when the symposion proper begins. The paper aims to show that Xenophon’s Socrates does not severely criticise rhetoric\, as Plato’s Socrates would\, nor the sophists. In fact\, Socrates goes so far as to draw on the thoughts and biography of Gorgias to persuade his companions to drink moderately and thus ensure that the banquet runs smoothly. It therefore appears that\, unlike Plato’s Symposium\, Xenophon’s Symposium presents a pleasant but positive image of rhetoric and the sophists. \nBio: Johann Goeken is Professor at the University of Strasbourg\, where he heads the Institute of Greek. A specialist in the history of rhetoric\, he is particularly interested in religious discourse in the Greco-Roman era\, as well as the practice of speech and dialogue in rituals of conviviality\, as evidenced by his two extensive works on Aelius Aristides (Aelius Aristide et la rhétorique de l’hymne en prose\, 2012) and on Plato and Xenophon (Boire sous l’oeil de Gorgias. Un commentaire rhétorique du Banquet de Platon et du Banquet de Xénophon\, 2022). He is currently working on an annotated edition/translation of the lectures that F. Nietzsche gave on Greek tragedy when he was professor of classical philology at the University of Basel.
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SUMMARY:Virtual Socrates Colloquium - Étienne Helmer: "Money in the soul: Socrates on psychology of money in Plato's Republic"
DESCRIPTION:The International Society for Socratic Studies is pleased to announce the schedule for the Virtual Socrates Colloquium 2025-2026.\nYou can see the schedule HERE \nNotice that there is no need to register and all you need to do is join the following Zoom link: https://biu-ac-il.zoom.us/j/8062705537 \nThe International Society for Socratic Studies is pleased to invite you to a lecture by Étienne Helmer from the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela\, Spain\, on the topic \nMoney in the soul: Socrates on psychology of money in Plato’s Republic \nAbstract: In this communication\,  I purport to show how the monetization of the economy in ancient Greece contributed to the emergence of what could be called an “economic psychology” in two closely related senses: first\, in the broad sense of “economic mentality\,” i.e.\, a set of behaviors and ways of thinking motivated by the desire for wealth\, now understood as profit or gain (kerdos); second\, and this is the more specific aspect I will focus on in this paper\, in the narrower sense of “psychic configuration” (and discourse on this configuration)\, in that the widespread use of money led philosophers to isolate and conceptualize a power of the soul to account for behaviors involving money\, profit\, or any economic enterprise\, such as the desire to accumulate money\, the calculation of risks and benefits when embarking on an enterprise\, or the comparison of gains (kerdos) and losses (zêmia). In this second sense\, this economic psychology rests on a what can be called a psychology of money.\nTo support my claim\, I will first outline how\, in the 8th and 7th centuries BCE\, the appeal of wealth mainly referred to moral conduct examined in terms of its social or collective repercussions\, rather than its psychological dimension\, and that it was considered and sought after as a symbol of a higher value\, rather than for its own sake as a gain or profit. Secondly\, I will show that a general shift that began in the 6th century and culminated in the 4th century\, driven by the spread social acceptance of metal currency\, made the desire for wealth conceived as gain\, and more specifically metal currency\, a psychological trait giving rise to reflections on the composition or structure of the soul. Finally\, I will examine this latter phenomenon in more detail\, taking Plato’s Republic as a case study of how of the psychological\, socio-political\, and economic dynamics depend on a framework of intelligibility strongly marked by a monetary dimension. \nBio: Etienne Helmer is senior researcher associated at the department of philosophy at the University of Santiago de Compostela. His main area of research deals with ancient philosophy on economic topics\, and more broadly with ancient Greek social\, economic and political thought.
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