2019 CNY Ancient Philosophy Spring Workshop

Plato and Aristotle on Happy Lives and Deaths

Syracuse University

Tolley Humanities Building, Room 304

Saturday, April 27, 2019

10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

10:00 – 11:45 Session I

Christopher Raymond (Vassar), “The Digression in the Theaetetus and Pindar’s Nemean 10”

Chair: Krisanna Scheiter (Union)

1:00 – 2:45: Session II

Emily Austin (Wake Forest),  “Aristotle on the Benefits of Death”

Chair: Jay Elliott (Bard)

3:15 – 5:00: Session III

Mark Brennan (UAlbany), “Justice and the Preservation of Friendship in Nicomachean Ethics VIII.13-IX.3”

Chair: Corinne Gartner (Wellesley)

Participants: 

Emily Austin (Wake Forest), Mark Brennan (UAlbany), Tad Brennan (Cornell), Charles Brittain (Cornell), Barbara Cohn (Cornell), Jay Elliott (Bard), Corinne Gartner (Wellesley), Weiting Huang (Syracuse), Rachana Kamtekar (Cornell), Jacob Klein (Colgate), Christopher Noble (Syracuse), Nathan Powers (UAlbany), John Proios (Cornell), Christopher Raymond (Vassar), Krisanna Scheiter (Union), Eric Solis (Cornell), Brianna Zgurich (Cornell), Peggy Zhu (Cornell)

This event is sponsored by the Central New York Humanities Corridor, from an award by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.