Upcoming Events


THIRD ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON GREAT BOOKS AND IDEAS

                  "The Ancient Republic and 
          the Birth of Political Philosophy" 
                     March 24-26, 2010
 

WEDS, March 24                                            
OPENING        Dr. Jacob Howland, Professor of Philosophy, University of Tulsa
  TALK:             "Plato's Republic and the Politics of
                                 Convalescence"
                                                  
                                 6:00 pm ~ Newton Chapel       
 
THURS, March 25
STUDENT PANEL:    REFLECTIONS ON THE ANCIENT REPUBLIC
                            10:00-11:30 am ~ Connell Student Center Conference Room 1

                " At Home in the City: Aristophanes on the Public and Private Spheres"
                           ~ Rachael Bishop, Mercer Junior (Political Science)

             "Augustine and Plato on Justice in War"
                          ~ Jaclyn Crumbley, Mercer Junior (Political Science)

            "Vergil on the Superiority of Roman (vs. Greek) Republicanism"
                         ~ Brice Odom, Mercer Senior (History & Political Science)

            "Meditations on First Philosophy: Invention and Epistemology 
                in Xenophanes and Heraclitus"
                          ~ Kristin Tyndall, Mercer Senior (Philosophy)

            "Citizen and Soul: Reading Plato's Laws and Republic Together"
                          ~ Emma Hughes, Mercer '09 (Philosophy & Classics)


FACULTY                THE SOCRATIC TURN AND ITS IMPLICATONS 
PANEL 1             1:00-2:30 pm ~ Connell Student Center Conference Room 1
              
              “Socrates on Science and Political Philosophy” 
                         ~ Dr. Aristide Tessitore, Furman University

                “The Rule of the Market in Plato’s Republic”

                         ~ Dr. Sean Mattie, Clayton State University

            
            “Justice, Community, and the Body: Socrates and Statesmanlike Medicine”

                         ~ Dr. Joseph Knippenberg, Oglethorpe University

FACULTY   THE ENDURING INFLUENCE & IMPORTANCE OF PLATO & ARISTOTLE
PANEL 2           3:00-4:30 pm ~ Connell Student Center Conference Room 1                         
  

             “On the ‘Conclusion’ of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics”

                         ~ Dr. Kevin Cherry, St. Anselm College
  

               “How Alfarabi, Following Plato and Aristotle, Gives the Lie to the ‘Great
                         Chain of Being’”

                           ~ Dr. Joshua Parens, University of Dallas 

               “Ancient Models and Modern Republicanism in Rousseau’s Political
                         Thought”

                         ~ Dr. Dan Cullen, Rhodes College

 CLOSING     Dr. Mary Nichols, Professor of Political Science, Baylor University
  TALK:               "Aristotle's Critique of Plato as Support for 
                    a Republican Politics"
                                                             
                    6:00 pm ~ Newton Chapel


FRI, March 26     Student-Faculty Discussion Seminar on Aristotle's Ethics 
                         10:00-10:50 AM ~ Groover 112                                           

                                    Suggested Readings: 
                        Nicomachean Ethics Book 1, Chs. 1-5; Book 10, Ch. 9.
                                



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