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The Universe of Platonic Thought
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28th International Conference  ·  XXVIII Международная конференция
25–26 June 2020   St Petersburg, Russia  ·  25–26 июня 2020   Санкт-Петербург, Россия
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Conference Program Proceedings
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Afonasin Eugene, 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

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Baryshev Igor A., 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

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Galanin Rustam, 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

Goryanina Ekaterina; 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

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

The Аbducting of the payday

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Kuraev Alexander Andreevich ; 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

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Litvin Tatiana, 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

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Makovetsky Eugene Anatolievich, 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

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

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

Mochalova Irina, 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

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

Friends and foes: topographical paideia of Thebes   ·   Recorded Video

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Pichugina Victoria, 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

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Shurunov Konstantin; 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

Sinitsyn Alexander, 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

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

Is Socrates right in understanding justice?   ·   Recorded Video

Svetlov Roman, 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

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

Phenomenology as Platonism   ·   Recorded Video

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Udalova Valeria; 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

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Volf Marina, 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

Seminar “Paideia in Ancient Culture”

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*

The report will examine Plato's attitude to Socrates and his pedagogical strategy. Comparison of Socratic and Platonic strategies formed as a result of criticism of sophistic educational practice shows their fundamental difference: Plato's paideia is oriented to the values of the polis, while the ideal of Socratic paideia is a self-sufficient private person.

Keywords: Socrates, Antisthenes, Plato, Socratic paideia, Plato's pedagogical project, Academy

The report will examine Plato's attitude to Socrates and his pedagogical strategy. As the analysis of the dialogues shows, Plato uses the figure of Socrates both as the Creator and exponent of the actual Socratic paideia (in this case, we can, although with a certain degree of convention, talk about the historical Socrates), and as a representative of the “aristocratic paideia”, an educational project of Plato himself. This method of Plato hides from modern readers the critical attitude of Plato to Socrates, preserving the established stereotype of Plato as his disciple and follower. Comparison of two paidetic strategies – Socratic (most consistently expressed by Antisthenes) and Platonic, formed as a result of criticism of sophistic educational practice, shows their fundamental difference (both formal and substantive). Plato's paideia is aimed at educating politicians whose task is to take care of the welfare of the polis, and virtuous citizens who are ready to make sacrifices for the sake of the polis. The ideal of the Socratic paideia is a self-sufficient private person; the didactic technique developed by Antisthenes makes the ideal achievable. It was the individualism of the Socratic paideia that made it popular in the pedagogical practice of Hellenistic schools.

* The research was funded by Russian Foundation for Basic Research, project No 1801100968 «Socrates: pro et contra. Myth of Socrates in Russian and World Cultures».

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