Florida Ancient Philosophy Workshop: Plato's Republic

Saturday, November 15

9:00-10:00 am, Luke Lea (Bilkent University), “Good “Because of Itself” in Republic II”

10:15-11:15 am, Jan Maximilian Robitzsch (University of Florida), “How Does the First City Come About?”

11:30 am-12:30 pm, Brennan McDavid (Chapman University), “The Logic of the City of Pigs”

2:30-3:30 pm, Jonathan Fine (Georgetown University), “What Is It to Act for the Sake of the kalon?”

3:45-4:45 pm, Merrick Anderson (University of Southern California), “Is There a Power of Temperance in Plato’s Republic?”

5:00-6:00 pm, Brooks Sommerville (United States Military Academy), “I’ve Never Had the Pleasure: Immoralism & the Case for Justice in Republic IX.”

Sunday, November 16

9:00-10:00 am, Nathan Rothschild (University of Florida), “The Ability to Unify the Soul”

10:15-11:15 am, Joshua Kramer (University of Pittsburgh), “Epithumia to Learn and Know in Plato’s Republic”

11:30 am-12:30 pm, Xavier Piccone (Colorado State University), “Plato’s Platonism Reconsidered: An Economic Argument for Geometric Form and the Value of Mathematics in the Republic”

The organizers would like to thank the Philosophy and Classics Departments as well as the Hamilton School for their generous support.