Issues in ancient ethics and philosophy of action

Issues in ancient ethics and philosophy of action

A workshop at the Department of Philosophy, History, Culture, and Arts Studies
 University of Helsinki

Auditorium XI, University Main Building, Fabianinkatu 33, Helsinki

30 January 2015


Programme

9.30–10.45 Ursula Coope (Corpus Christi College, Oxford), ‘Freedom and responsibility in Plotinus’

11.00–12.15 Pauliina Remes (University of Uppsala), ‘Plotinus on cosmic and human action’


Lunch

13.30–14.45 Miira Tuominen (University of Jyvaskyla), ‘Concern for oneself and for others in Porphyry On Abstinence from Injuring Animals’

15.00–16.15 Erik Eliasson (Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies), ‘Virtue as use and uses of virtue: The Anonymous commentary on EN II-V on virtue and external goods’


Coffee and tea

16.45–18.00 Mika Perala (University of Helsinki), ‘The friend’s being good and one’s own in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics 9.9’


The workshop is open to all interested in these issues. For further information please contact Mika Perala ([email protected]). The workshop is organized as part of Mika Perala’s Academy of Finland Post-Doctoral Research Project ‘Aristotle on memory’ and funded by this project as well as the Department of Philosophy, History, Culture and Arts Studies, University of Helsinki