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Plato Mini-Festival

As a follow-up to the "International Plato Society Midterm Meeting: Platonic Moral Realism" being held at Emory University in Atlanta March 13-15, on Monday, March 16 UGA's Department of Philosophy will host a Plato Mini-Festival starting at 3:30 p.m. in room 115 Peabody. Three extraordinarily distinguished scholars of Plato will be delivering papers:

Sarah Broadie (University of St. Andrews, Scotland): "Plato and Aristotle on the Theoretical Impulse"

Luc Brisson (Le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris):  "Why Teleogy is Problematic in Interprting theTimaeus"

John Rist (University of Toronto):  "Plato and Platonisms, with a Special Glance at the Plato of Thomas More"

The Moderator of this event will be Professor Eugene Garver, St. John’s College, Emeritus. A reception will follow the lectures. Partially funded by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts and The President’s Venture Fund. For more info on the IPS event at Emory, click here.

 

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