Paideia in Ancient Culture: Education, Politics, and Philosophy

02 November 2020

2 November, 2020. Part 1

02 November 2020Beginning at 12:00 PM, 26 M. Posadskaya str., room 111
Zoom conference: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84779885409?pwd=azlEcGt1RE1rVVBMUXZZYWZJenRydz09

Moderators: Roman Svetlov, Marina Volf

1. Eugene Afonasin, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Institute of Philosophy and Law of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (Novosibirsk, Russia), Head of Department

"How philosophers saved myths?" Chapter one: the sophists · Recorded Video

2. Victoria Pichugina, DSc in Pedagogy, Associate Professor; Institute for strategy of education development (Moscow, Russia), Leading Researcher

AUT CUM SCUTO, AUT IN SCUTO: pedagogical dimension of the city and its defenders in Aeschylus’ Seven against Thebes · Recorded Video

3. Andrej Mozhajsky, CSc in History; Institute for strategy of education development (Moscow, Russia), senior researcher

Friends and foes: topographical paideia of Thebes · Recorded Video

4. Irina Protopopova, CSc in Culturology, Associate Professor; Platonic Research Center (Moscow, Russia), Head; Russian State University for Humanities (Moscow, Russia), Major Research Fellow

Plato’s dialogue as an instrument of paideia

5. Marina Volf, DSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Institute of Philosophy and Law of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (Novosibirsk, Russia), Director

The Illegal Heirs of Demodoc: Sophistic Teaching as a Transformation of the Universe · Recorded Video

2 November, 2020. Part 2

02 November 2020Beginning at 3:00 PM, 26 M. Posadskaya str., room 111
Zoom conference: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84779885409?pwd=azlEcGt1RE1rVVBMUXZZYWZJenRydz09

Moderators: Roman Svetlov, Marina Volf

1. Eugene Anatolievich Makovetsky, DSc in Philosophy; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Professor

Paideia in the christian enlightenment: Origen's "writings of God" and the moravian mission of sts. Cyril and Methodius

2. Irina Mochalova, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor

Plato as a critic of Socrates: pro et contra Socratic paideia · Recorded Video

3. Sergey Slobodkovsky; Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia ( Saint Petersburg, Russia), Postgraduate

Is Socrates right in understanding justice? · Recorded Video

4. Rustam Galanin, CSc in Philosophy; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Independent scholar

Athenian Paideia and Greek Philia in the Fifth Century BC: Cultural and Historical Context · Recorded Video

5. Bella Mirzoeva; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Student

Prometheus and Chiron: personal example in Antisthenes’ two types of paideia · Recorded Video

6. Roman Svetlov, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Institute of the philosophy of a human, Herzen University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Director

How does pedagogical appropriation work: the fate of Plato's texts in neoplatonic exegesis · Recorded Video

03 November 2020

3 November, 2020

03 November 2020Beginning 11:30 AM
Zoom conference: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82588111324?pwd=NEs1eWNMRExlL3A2NGV5USswNlVFQT09

Moderators: Tatiana Litvin, Sergey Slobodkovsky

1. Tatiana Litvin, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Dean of Faculty

Commentary as genre of a moral narrative in the Middle Platonism · Recorded Video

2. Elena Timoschukl, CSc in Philosophy; Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (Moscow, Russia), Assistant Professor

Phenomenology as Platonism · Recorded Video

3. Natalia Danilkina, CSc in Philosophy, Independent scholar

Eros and Caritas in Sergius Hessen's Philosophy of Education

4. Igor A. Baryshev, CSc in Technics; Lomonosov Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia), Research Fellow

Start&Finish. Does the late reflection of παιδεία mark the end of education era? · Recorded Video

5. Vitaliy Darenskiy, DSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Lugansk State Pedagogical University (Lugansk, Ukraine), Professor

The Pythagorean Golden Verses as a philosophical propaedeutics

6. Alexander Sinitsyn, CSc in History, Associate Professor; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor

Merry classics vs History is a serious business: on early Greek historiography, irony, and paideia

7. Alexander Andreevich Kuraev; Institute of the philosophy of a human, Herzen University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Student

It could not touch: Contagiousness of Epistemic Noise in/as Information Entropy · Recorded Video

8. Konstantin Shurunov; Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia ( Saint Petersburg, Russia), Postgraduate

Paideia as a view of the real world: what should be changed in higher education? · Recorded Video

9. Ekaterina Goryanina; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Student ; Institute of the philosophy of a human, Herzen University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), master

Plato's anthropological strategy of Paideia · Recorded Video

10. Nikolay Gursky; Tomsk State University (Tomsk, Russia), Postgraduate

The Аbducting of the payday

11. Valeria Udalova ; Pushkin Leningrad State University (Vyborg Institute) (Vyborg, Russia), Lecturer

Technologies for the implementation of the principles of ancient παιδεία in modern philosophy classes · Recorded Video

Seminar “Paideia in Ancient Culture”

Alexander Sinitsyn, CSc in History, Associate Professor; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor

Merry classics vs History is a serious business: on early Greek historiography, irony, and paideia*

The report presents many examples of ironic attitude toward the historical figures and events in the work by ‘the forefathers of history’ and in the works of his predecessors. They turned their focus toward making the memorable events look like a merry classic. Thucydides presumed that the tasks of scientific historiography must be. So history is a serious business.

Keywords: Greek historians, Hecataeus, Herodotus, Thucydides, paideia, irony, narrator, researcher, merry classics, experience, future generations.

As far as we can judge by the fragments of ‘the forefathers of history’ and the extant ‘Muses’ by Herodotus, initially, accounts of the past events were not as serious as Thucydides made them out to be. His formula κτῆμα εἰς ἀεί asserts that everlasting value of history lies in its lessons, so historiography, aiming at the future, is capable of educating and can correct the future. The Athenian historian presumed that the tasks of scientific historiography must be: 1) to study, examine and describe historical events; 2) equipped with the experience of the past, to teach the generations to come. So history, according to Thucydides, is a serious business. For Herodotus, historiography is an imprinted memory of the glorious past of people (κλέος ἀνθρώπων), so historical works are a mine of information. Many ‘Pre-Herodotians’ may have regarded their work in the same way. The first servants of Clio turned their focus toward making the memorable events look like ‘a merry classic’. The report presents many examples of ironic attitude toward the historical figures and events in the work by ‘the father of history’ and in the works of his predecessors (Hecataeus of Miletus, Hellanicus of Lesbos, Pherecydes of Athens, et al.).

* The research was carried out thanks to funding of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project No. 19-09-00022а “‘Forefathers of history’: The oldest representatives of ancient historical science”).