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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.
URL:https://socraticstudies.net/event/virtual-socrates-colloquium-nicholas-d-smith-irina-deretic-summoning-socrates-on-platos-apology-38c-42a/
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SUMMARY:Virtual Socrates Colloquium - Manfred Kraus: "Socrates and the Presocratics"
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:\nhttps://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 Manfred Kraus (University of Tübingen)\, on the 26th of March at 18:00 (Rome Time)\, entitled \nSocrates and the Presocratics\nAbstract: For Cicero Socrates marks the great watershed in the history of Greek philosophy and the paradigm shift from early natural philosophy to a focus on human life and moral philosophy. Yet our ancient sources on the historical personality of Socrates (Plato\, Xenophon\, the minor Socratics\, Diogenes Laertius\, and Attic comedy) also exhibit a Socrates in multiple contact with Presocratic thinkers and Presocratic thought. Even if a personal encounter with the Eleatic philosophers Parmenides and Zeno as staged in Plato’s Parmenides is clearly not only fictional but also intrinsically implausible\, in the Platonic dialogues Socrates is frequently portrayed in discussions with Pythagoreans\, Heracliteans\, Eleatics and others\, not to mention his disputes with the most famous sophists of his time. While in the Apology Socrates disclaims any personal engagement in natural philosophy\, there is the autobiographical passage in the Phaedo on his youthful flirtation with the philosophy of Anaxagoras\, and there are notices about a personal acquaintance with the Anaxagorean Archelaus. There are further anecdotes about his comments on earlier thinkers such as Heraclitus. Not least there is the portrait of Socrates as a sort of hybrid of Anaxagorean natural philosopher and sophistic rhetorician in Aristophanes’ Clouds. All this considered\, there is a fair probability that Socrates was acquainted with theories of Presocratic philosophy circulating in Athens. Anaxagoras for sure lived in Athens during much of Socrates’ lifetime\, and apart from Plato’s brilliant literary dramatizations\, it is inevitable that Socrates will also in real life have met with exponents of the Sophistic movement such as Protagoras\, Gorgias or Hippias\, each of whom spent considerable time in Athens. It is thus worthwhile asking how far the real Socrates was actually familiar with the main strands of Presocratic thinking or if this is mainly literary fiction or doxographic speculation. The talk will review the available sources and evaluate their trustworthiness for a realistic picture of the intellectual personality of the historical Socrates. \n  \nBio: Manfred Kraus is Retired Professor of Classics and Rhetoric at the University of Tübingen\, Germany. His main research interests are in the history and theory of rhetoric of all periods\, the theory of argumentation\, Greek (especially Presocratic and Platonic) philosophy\, Byzantine and Renaissance studies. His 1984 PhD dissertation was on philosophy of language in the Presocratics. He has published widely on all of the above-named subjects. He is a member of numerous international societies and past president of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric and of the International Society for the Study of Jesuit Rhetoric.
URL:https://socraticstudies.net/event/virtual-socrates-colloquium-manfred-kraus-socrates-and-the-presocratics/
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SUMMARY:Virtual Socrates Colloquium - Francisco Gonzalez: "Teleology's Socratic Origin and Legacy"
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:\nhttps://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 Francisco Gonzalez (University of Ottawa)\, on the 23rd of April at 18:00 (Rome Time)\, entitled \nTeleology’s Socratic Origin and Legacy \nAbstract:\nThe term ‘teleology’\, since its coinage in 1728 by Christian Wolff and until the present day\, refers to the view not only that there are final causes\, but 1) that these final causes are objects of a divine intelligence and therefore ‘purposes’; 2) that these purposes serve human beings exclusively or predominantly; 3) that these purposes are foreign to material nature and need to be imposed on it from without. Stated even more briefly\, teleology is the view that there are final causes in nature\, but that nature is neither their agent (divine intelligence) nor their beneficiary (human beings). Teleology as thus understood has proven one of the most influential ideas in Western thought. But where did it come from? My argument is that its inventor was Socrates\, at least the Socrates portrayed consistently in this regard by Plato (particularly in the Phaedo) and Xenophon (Memorabilia I 4 & IV 3). Furthermore\, I argue that teleology was a uniquely Socratic idea\, its full acceptance in antiquity not extending beyond the Socratic circle. Even Plato needed to modify Socratic teleology (in the Timaeus)\, and the Stoics did so even more radically; Aristotle rejected it completely in his Physics\, as did\, perhaps surprisingly\, Plotinus. The reason for this negative reception is that Socratic teleology represented a rejection of natural philosophy itself in favor of ethics\, so that natural philosophy needed to be saved from it. Ironically\, Socratic teleology had a long life after antiquity through a kind of mashup between Plato’s Timaeus and a misinterpretation of Aristotle\, only to be rejected by natural philosophy all over again in the modern period. The full story cannot be told here. The goal is simply to return to Socrates the credit\, or the blame\, for a revolutionary idea. \nBio:\nFrancisco J. Gonzalez is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Ottawa in Canada. He has published extensively on Plato\, including the books Dialectic and Dialogue: Plato’s Practice of Philosophical Inquiry (Northwestern University Press\, 1998) and Plato and Heidegger: A Question of Dialogue (Penn State Press\, 2009). His recent work has focused more on Aristotle\, with articles on Metaphysics Θ and final causality. He has also published recently Human Life in Motion: Heidegger’s Unpublished Seminars on Aristotle as Preserved by Helene Weiss (Indiana University Press\, 2024) and Heidegger and Aristotle (Cambridge University Press\, 2026). He also has articles on other areas of Ancient philosophy (Socrates\, Plotinus) and Continental philosophy (Gadamer\, Levinas\, Ricoeur).
URL:https://socraticstudies.net/event/virtual-socrates-colloquium-francisco-gonzalez-teleologys-socratic-origin-and-legacy/
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SUMMARY:Virtual Socrates Colloquium - Emily Baragwanath: "Reading Xenophon's Oikonomikos: Politics\, Materialism\, and Valuing Women"
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:\nhttps://eu01web.zoom.us/j/63132371340?pwd=nQwGxammbjajdzRSM9ZQXsCLoqfS2C.1\nMeeting ID: 631 3237 1340\nPasscode: 088283
URL:https://socraticstudies.net/event/virtual-socrates-colloquium-emily-baragwanath-reading-xenophons-oikonomikos-politics-materialism-and-valuing-women/
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SUMMARY:Virtual Socrates Colloquium - Emilio Spinelli: "Socratic Shadows in Hans Jonas"
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:\nhttps://eu01web.zoom.us/j/63132371340?pwd=nQwGxammbjajdzRSM9ZQXsCLoqfS2C.1\nMeeting ID: 631 3237 1340\nPasscode: 088283
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