Conference

    21—23 February 2003
    Sheraton Tucson University Plaza Hotel, and Law School
    University of Arizona
    Tucson, AZ
    8th Annual Arizona Colloquium
    in Ancient Philosophy
    :
    Desire, Pleasure, and Love in Plato's Ethics

    Speakers



    Mariana Anagnostopoulos
    (UCLA)—
    “The Real Good as Object of Love in the Symposium”

    Thomas Brickhouse
    (Lynchburg College), and
    Nicholas Smith
    (Lewis and Clark College)—
    “Socrates on Why Wrongdoing Damages the Soul”

    Anne Farrell
    (University of Minnesota)—
    “Ortho-mania: The Benefits of Love
    as Divinely Inspired Madness”

    G.R.F. Ferrari
    (U.C. Berkeley)—
    “Beyond psychic politics in the Timaeus,
    Phaedrus
    and Symposium”

    Jill Gordon
    (Colby College)—
    “The Erotic Impulse and Plato's Metaphysics”

    Thomas K. Johansen
    (University of Bristol)—
    “The Pleasures of a Clam: Philebus 21”

    Rachana Kamtekar
    (University of Michigan)—
    “The Healthy City and the Fevered City:
    Plato's Republic on Desire and Education”

    Catherine Osborne
    (University of Liverpool)—
    “Hedonism in the Protagoras”

    Michael Pakaluk
    (Clark University)—
    “Silencing in Platonic Ethics”

    Naomi Reshotko
    (University of Denver)—
    “Socratic Sophia and Eudaimonia and their Facsimiles”

     
    George Rudebusch
    (Northern Arizona University)—
    “True Love is Requited:
    The Argument of Lysis 221d-222a”

    Frisbee Sheffield
    (Cambridge University)—
    “Interpersonal Love in the Symposium”

          Rachel Singpurwalla
    (Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville)—
    “Socrates and Plato on Irrationality”

    Nicholas White
    (University of California at Irvine)—
    “Brute Cravings”

    Donald Zeyl
    (University of Rhode Island)—
    “Socrates on Virtue, Pleasure and the Human Good”




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