Philosophy and Political Power in Antiquity, New York, May 10-11‏

Hannah Arendt and Reiner Schürmann Symposium in Political Philosophy
Tyrants, Kings, Emperors, and Philosophers: Philosophy and Political Power in Antiquity
New School for Social Research, New York, May, 10-11 2013
55 West 13 Street, Room 202

Organized by Cinzia Arruzza and Dmitri Nikulin

May 10
9:45: Introduction – Dmitri Nikulin (NSSR)

10:00-11:30: Andreas Kalyvas (NSSR), The Dictator is a Tyrant: Dionysius of Halicarnassus’ Critique of Roman Republicanism and its Significance Today
Chair: Chiara Bottici (NSSR)

11:45-1:15: Dmitri Nikulin (NSSR), Telling Truth in the Face of a Tyrant: Diogenes the Cynic as a Political Thinker
Chair: Banu Bargu (NSSR)

3:00-4:30: Cinzia Arruzza (NSSR), Philosophical Dogs and Tyrannical Wolves in Plato’s Republic
Chair: Simon Critchley (NSSR)

4:45-6:15: Chris Bobonich (Stanford University), What’s the Good of Knowing the Good?
Chair: Ross Poole (NSSR)

May 11

10:00-11:30: Christoph Horn (University of Bonn), Individual Competence and Collective Deliberation in Aristotle’s Politics
Chair: Euree Song (Kyung Hee University, Seoul)

11:45-1:15: Gretchen Reydams-Schils (University of Notre Dame), Dion and Epictetus on how to speak the truth to power
Chair: Omri Boehm (NSSR)

3:00-4:30: Dominic O’Meara (University of Fribourg), Plato’s Tyrant in Neoplatonic Philosophy
Chair: Benoît Challand (NYU)

4:45-6:15: Final roundtable

For more information: https://www.newschool.edu/nssr/events.aspx?id=88606 and https://www.newschool.edu/nssr/events.aspx?id=88607