BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Grails iCalendar plugin//NONSGML Grails iCalendar plugin//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260606T205112Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20141107T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20141108T120000 SUMMARY:The Human and the Divine UID:20260613T105548Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:America/Chicago LOCATION:Chicago\, United States DESCRIPTION:

nb: the conference will be held at the university of chicago on fri nov 7 (franke institute\, regenstein library 1st floor\, 1100 e 57 st.) and at northwestern university on sat nov 8 (location tba)

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Paper Titles

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what a god of refutation knows: \;elegchos \;and \;dialektike \;in plato&rsquo\;s sophist
- \;jonathan beere -

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knowing me: it&rsquo\;s the best I can do
- \;charles brittain

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does god have a choice? human and divine volition in early Stoicism
- \;margaret graver

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the divinity of (a) human life
- \;aryeh kosman

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tbd
- \;stephen \;menn -

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assimilation to god in plato&rsquo\;s ethics
- \;suzanne \;obdrzalek -

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Topic

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how do greek and roman philosophers define the contours
of our human nature in relationship to divine beings? we hope
to explore both the formal and the substantive aspects of this
topic. as to form\, can we understand human beings only on
their own terms\, or are they something (imperfectly) divine\,
perhaps subject to standards only a higher kind of being will
satisfy? the divine\, in addition to being something the human
approximates or tries to be like\, purports also to be something
human beings can interact with. thus arise substantive questions
such as: what is it to know or understand god(s)? can we in any
sense pray to\, hear from\, give to\, or be aided by the divine?

ORGANIZER;CN=Agnes Callard;CN=Dhananjay Jagannathan;CN=John Wynne: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR