Values in Ancient Thought
International Workshop “Values in Ancient Thought”
NOVA University Lisbon
May 3, 2024
Colégio Almada Negreiros, Room 209 & Online
This international meeting gathers a group of renowned experts to discuss the question of values in Antiquity and the way in which the ancient reflexion on values was received and appropriated in modern thinking.
Org. Paulo Lima, António de Castro Caeiro
Programme
9:25–9:30 Opening words
Session 1. Moderator: Marion Pollaert
9:30–10:10 Hélder Telo (University of Beira Interior), “Deceiving into the Truth: On the Philosophical Value of Non-Truths in Plato’s Dialogues”
10:10–10:50 Fábio Serranito (University of Leeds), “Platonic Immortality and the Value of Being Alive: An Exploratory Approach”
10:50–11:00 Coffee break
Session 2. Moderator: Hélder Telo
11:00–11:40 Marion Pollaert (IFILNOVA / Centre Jean Pépin), “The Value of Knowledge: Practical Norms in Plato”
11:40–12:20 Paulo Lima (IFILNOVA / FCSH NOVA), “Pessimism in the Pre-Platonic Philosophers: The Young Nietzsche on Anaximander, Empedocles and Heraclitus”
12:20–14:00 Lunch break
Session 3. Moderação: António Caeiro
14:00–14:40 Luísa Buarque de Holanda (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro), “Em nome de Hermógenes: nomes próprios no Crátilo de Platão”
14:40–15:20 João Constâncio (IFILNOVA / NOVA FCSH), “Fedro: três discursos sobre erôs”
15:20–16:00 Maria João Branco (IFILNOVA / NOVA FCSH), “A crise dos valores em Eurípides”
16:00–16:10 Coffee break
Session 4. Moderator: Paulo Lima
16:10–16:50 Dimitri El Murr (École Normale Supérieure – PSL, France), “Friendship, the Value of Community, and the Unity of the Ideal City in Plato’s Republic”
16:50–17:30 António de Castro Caeiro (IFILNOVA / NOVA FCSH NOVA), “Radical Worth and Extreme Value – philotimia kat’axian – in Aristotle’s megalopsychia (NE 4.3-4)”
17:30–17:35 Concluding words
To join the sessions via Zoom, use this link.
Event supported by the Foundation for Science and Technology (Fundação para a Ciência e para a Tecnologia) of the Portuguese Ministry of Education and Science under the projects UIDB/00183/2020 and UIDP/00183/2020.