On 14 and 15 June 2024, the International Colloquium ‘Empeiria chez Platon: expérience empirique, enjeux normatifs’ will take place at the École Normale Supérieure – PSL, organised by the Research Group on Ancient Philosophy in partnership with the Centre Jean Pépin UMR8230 of the École Normale Supérieure – PSL. The colloquium will be attended by researchers Pedro Dotto, Paulo Lima and Marion Pollaert, who co-organised the event.

Programme

14/06/2024

ENS, 29 rue d‘Ulm PARIS 5, Amphithéâtre Jean Jaurès

3.00-3.15 Welcome

Chair: Ulysse CHAINTREUIL

3.15-4.30 Marie-Noëlle RIBAS: ‘Expérience philosophique et expérience ordinaire’

Coffee break

5.00-6.15 Marta JIMENEZ: ‘Plato on why some experiences are better than others’

15/06/2024

ENS, 45 rue d’Ulm PARIS 5, Amphithéâtre Evariste Galois

Chair: Lucia SAUDELLI

9.30-10.45 Pedro DOTTO: ‘The Analogy between medicine and rhetoric in Plato’s dialogues’

10.45-12.00 Marion POLLAERT: ‘Experience and Politics in Plato’

Lunch

Chair: René De NICOLAY

2.00-3.15 Paulo LIMA: ‘The Tragic Passions Do Not Teach: Plato’s implicit reassessment of the pathei mathos tradition in Republic X’

Coffee break

3.15-4.30 Nicolas LE MERRER: ‘L’expérience «avilissante» du plaisir tragique et la critique platonicienne de la poésie dans la République’ 4.30-5.00

Closing roundtable

Registration and more information: marion.pollaert@gmail.com