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Programme

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   Venue: School of Philosophy, Conference Room, Gallos 74100, Rethymnon

 

Friday, 17/05/2024

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09.00-09.15 Opening Remarks

  

      Chair: Konstantinos Spanoudakis (University of Crete)

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09.15-10.15 Philipp Brüllmann (University of Heidelberg)

         What are the limits of the limits of nature? Stoic ethics meets the Euthyphro Dilemma

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10.15-11.15 Georgia Tsouni (University of Crete)

         The limits of pleasure and technological progress in Lucretius

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11.15-11.45 Coffee Break

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         Chair: Irini-Fotini Viltanioti (University of Crete)

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11.45-12.45 Gretchen Reydams-Schils (Notre Dame University)

         The Stoic position in Philo of Alexandria’s ‘On the Indestructibility of the World’

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13.00-15.00 Lunch

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         Chair: Zacharoula Petraki (University of Crete)

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15.15-16.15 Attila Németh (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Philosophy)

         The Epicurean notion of time as limit

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16.15-17.15 Simon Shogry (University of Oxford)

         Chrysippus on the nature of harm

 

         Saturday, 18/05/2024

 

         Chair: Chloe Balla (University of Crete)

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09.00-10.00 Jula Wildberger (American University of Paris)

         Human nature or every human’s particular nature -what difference does it make for Stoic ethics?

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10.00-11.00 Stefan Röttig (University of Würzburg)

         Natural limits and moral character traits. Seneca’s understanding of the telos

 

11.00-11.30 Coffee Break

 

         Chair: Stelios Panagiotakis (University of Crete)

 

11.30-12.30 Gernot Michael Müller (University of Bonn)

         Nature, agriculture and Roman self-image in Varro’s De Re Rustica

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12.30-13.30 Bram Demulder (Leiden University)        

          Living according to which nature? Plutarch on Platonic, Epicurean, and Stoic physis

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13.30-13.45 Closing Remarks

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