Beyond Being: Approaches to Transcendence in Ancient Philosophy

“Beyond Being : Approaches of Transcendence in Ancient Philosophy”

Hybrid International Conference in Ancient Philosophy

XX Seminário Internacional Archai

September 19-20-21-22, 2022
PUC-SP/UFABC

(Brasília Time Zone - BRT: UTC-3)

https://eventos.pucsp.br/beyondbeing

Final Program of Activities

Conference organizers: Bruno Conte (PUC-SP) and Luca Pitteloud (UFABC)

September 19

14h00: Opening remarks

14h15-15h45: Session (A):

James Trybendis (New School): And She's Hearing a Stairway to Heaven: Plotinus and the Music of the Good

Tiziano Ottobrini (Bergamo): Between Ineffable and Unspeakable: ἀπόρρητον and ἄρρητον as In-dication of the Principle beyond the One, according to Damascius’ De primis principiis

15h45-16h00 : Coffee Break

16h00-18h00 : Opening keynote session  :

Gabriele Cornelli (Brasilia): Transcending Death through Laughter: Plato on the Choices of the Souls in the Myth of Er

John Thorp (Western Ontario): Transcendence: from Light to Darkness

September 20

10h00 -12h15 : Session (B) :

Géraldine Hertz (Nantes) : Beyond Being and Ineffability : the implicit debate between a 2nd century Christian philosopher and his Middle Platonic contemporaries

Antonio Pio Di Cosmo (Universidad Católica de Cuyo) : Rethinking the "Royal Animal". Concretizing the Idea of the “good” from Eusebius to Agapitus

Andre L. Braga da Silva (USP): Not beyond Being: Existence, the Good, and the Being of the Ideas in Plato.

14h00-16h15  : Session (C) :

Xi Ji (Zhejiang University): Transcendence of the Human Soul in the Timaeus

Giovanni Vella (Fapcom): Guido Calogero e a interpretação universalista do conceito platônico  de imortalidade no Fédon

Cassio Ramos (PUC-SP): A transcendência como fundamento do discurso no Crátilo de Platão
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16h15-16h45 : Coffee Break

16h45-18h45 : Keynote papers I :

Matthew Duncombe (Nottingham): Transcendence, Immanence and Megaricism in Plato’s Theaetetus

Nicola Galgano (USP): Parmênides e o exórdio da transcendência

September 21

10h00 -12h00: Communications Session

Augusto Dias Leite (Quioto/UFOP): Time beyond Being

Pedro Dotto (New School): The Interrelation between the Palinode and Rhetoric in Plato’s Phaedrus

Gabriel Balog (PUC-SP): The Elenkhos' ethical Purpose: from the "good thinker" to the good effect of their faculties

Erick D'Luca (Brasilia): On "the Being of Things" in 44 DK B6

14h00-15h30:  Session (D) :

Maurizio Di Silva (UFPR/USP): Augustine on mundus intelligibilis: De Ordine, II.

Celso Vieira (Bochum): The Eternity is Eternal: Self-Predication in Plato's Timaeus

15h30-16h00: Coffee Break

16h00-17h00: Keynote papers II :


Lucas Angioni (Unicamp): Aristotle and the nous beyond episteme

September 22

13h15-15h30: Session (E) :

William Young (Endicott College): Toward an Inclusive Conception of Eternity

Alberto Zali (Genova): From chorismos to epekeina tes ousias: two levels of transcendence in Plato’s philosophy

Dmitry Biriukov (HSE University): Once again on Neoplatonism of Arius

15h30-16h00: Coffee Break

16h00-17h30: Closing conference :

Gábor Betegh (Cambridge) : The ‘in’ Relation and the Functions of the Receptacle in the Timaeus