Plato’s Theory of Soul
XIVth Symposium Platonicum Pragense: Plato’s Theory of Soul
October 19-21, 2023, Prague, Vila Lanna (V Sadech 1, Prague 6) and online
Thursday, 19 October
9:00-10:10 Filip Karfík
Between Form and Body: On the Soul in Plato
10:20-11:30 Jonathan Edward Griffiths
Plato on Priority of Soul to Body
11:50-13:00 Francesca Eustacchi
Interferences Between Soul and Body in Human Being: The Multifocal Platonic Discourse
Lunch
14:15-15:25 Allan Silverman
How to Make a Soul
15:40-16:50 Julia Pfefferkorn
Plato on Moral Responsibility and the Immortality of the Soul
17:00-18:30 Meeting of Czech Plato Society
19:00-21:00 Conference dinner
Friday, 20 October
9:00-10:10 Enrico Volpe
What Does the World Soul Do? Some Reflection about the Role and the Ontological Status of the World Soul Between the Timaeus and the Epinomis
10:20-11:30 Matilde Berti
Circularity and Circular Motion in Plato’s Metaphysics and Psychology
11:50-13:00 Colin King
Soul, Time, and Celestial Motion in Plato’s Timaeus
Lunch
Saturday, 21 October
9:30-10:40 Beatriz Bossi
Desire and Rationality in the Myth of Er: Hasty Souls, Punished Heroes and ‚Unlucky‘ Philosophers
10:50-12:00 Flavia Palmieri
Plato’s Individual Soul and Xenocrates‘ Personal Daimon: The Pupil Correcting the Master?
Lunch
13:30-14:40 Karel Thein
Two Functions of the Soul’s Immortality: Between Ethics and Cosmology
14:50-16:00 Suzanne Obdrzalek
What are Platonic Souls Made of?
Link to shared folder.