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
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 Jyväskylä), ‘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 Perälä (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 Perälä (mika.perala at helsinki.fi).
The workshop is organized as part of Mika Perälä’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.