XXV World Congress of Philosphy – Philosophy across Boundaries
Roundtable “Le rappresentazioni della filosofia nella Grecia antica”
2nd August 2024
Submitter: Olimpia Imperio
Participants: Ada Caruso, Maria Elena De Luna, Pierre Destrée, Michael Erler, Olimpia Imperio, Giuseppe Solaro, Mauro Tulli
Abstract
The round table, promoted by the University Association for the Study of the Greek World "To Hellenikon," proposes a discussion among philologists, historians, archaeologists, and scholars of the literary production of ancient Greece around the varied 'representations' of philosophy in the texts and figurative arts of the archaic, classical, Hellenistic, and imperial ages: the concept of becoming in Heraclitus's logos, Plato's poetics on the comic and tragic, his use of humor and parody, the dynamism of the 'open' Platonic dialogue, and Theophrastus's idea of literature, the dialectic between theory and practice in the philosophical formation of the political man in Aristotle and Plutarch, the architectural facies of the main schools (Academy, Peripatos, and Kepos) in Athens all contribute to offering a comprehensive and detailed overview of the pervasive presence of philosophy in all expressions of Greek thought and civilization.