PLATO`S STATESMAN

Czech Plato Society, Charles University in Prague, J. E. Purkyně University in Ústí n. L.
and Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
are pleased to invite you to the Eight International Plato Symposium in Prague, to be held
from 10th to 12th November 2011 at the villa Lanna (Praha 6, V Sadech 1)
on the theme of
PLATO’S STATESMAN
VIII
SYMPOSIUM PLATONICUM PRAGENSE
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
9:30 Opening address by the chairman
of the Czech Plato Society
chair: Mary Louise Gill
9:30 Friedo Ricken, Plato’s Statesman – a Political
Utopia?
11:00 Christopher Rowe, The statesman and the best city
chair: Gábor Betegh
9:30 Mary Louise Gill, Plato’s Statesman and missing
Philosopher
11:00 David Ambuel, Diairesis in the Statesman
chair: Dominic O’Meara
14:30 Melissa Lane, Archein and archai: rule, offices, and
statesmanship in Plato’s Statesman
16:00 Jakub Jinek, Herdenzucht oder
Gemeinschaftszucht – eine vernachlässigte
Unterscheidung?
chair: Christopher Rowe
14:30 Jakub Jirsa, On letters and models
16:00 Filip Karfík, The world of human politics.
The conditions of political rule in Plato’s Politicus
November, 10th
chair: Aleš Havlíček
9:40 Monique Dixsaut, La bonne mémoire de Socrate
11:10 Dominic O’Meara, A New Robe for the Goddess in
Plato’s Statesman?
chair: Friedo Ricken
14:30 Dimitri El Murr, La logique de la division:
Politique, 258a-268d
16:00 Francesco Fronterotta, Mereology and
Metaphysics: parts (μέρη), forms (εἴδη), and division
(διαίρεσις) in Politicus 262a8-263b10 and 285a4-287b2
17:30 Karel Thein, „The Greatest and Most Valuable
Things“: What Are They and What Are They For?
November, 11th
Boomerang publishing
Council of Scientific Societies of the Czech Republic
Swiss Contribution-CZP Partnership Fund
Czech Science Foundation
November, 12th