On November 25 RSUH hosted the IX Plato Moscow Conference, dedicated to the understanding of Plato's philosophy in a historical and modern context.
The event was attended by faculty members from leading universities of Moscow, St. Petersburg, Ufa and Novosibirsk. The sections were also attended by speakers from Germany, Poland, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.
The conference covered such topics as "Platonic Studies", "Platonism: Receptions and Parallels", "Russian Platonism", "Platonism in Visual Culture" and "Platonism in Art and Literature".
The plenary session was moderated by Dr. Irina Protopopova, Head of Plato Research Center.
At the section "Platonic Studies", presentations were made on the issue of the existence of lies and its possible interpretation in Plato's dialogues, mysticism and magic of Platonism, the importance of Plato for political philosophy today, his role in the formation of the concept of the "political", etc.
The theology of Julian the Apostate, the formation of the Palamite doctrine in the early writings of Gregory Palamas and the transformation of Platonism in the philosophy of traditionalism by René Guénon were discussed at the section “Platonism: Receptions and Parallels”.
The speakers of the section "Russian Platonism" discussed the Christian Platonism of Vladimir Ern, the interpretation of the ideal state of Plato in the political philosophy of Nikolai Ustryalov and the classification of Russian symbolism in the early works of Lyudmila Gogotishvili.
Students of Russian universities also spoke at the Conference. Ms. Alina Alekseeva, a third-year student at the State Academic University for the Humanities, made a presentation "The second hypothesis of Parmenides in the dialogue of Plato", which was devoted to substantiating the advantages of the second hypothesis of Parmenides for describing the structure of the world and the place of man in it.
The second day of the conference, November 26, was dedicated to presentations on Neoplatonism in the works of Renaissance artists, the choreographic metaphor of eternity in the Platonic tradition, etc.
The conference program and abstracts can be found here.
