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The Universe of Platonic Thought

XXXIII Международная конференция  ·  33rd International Conference
19–20 июня 2025   Санкт-Петербург, Россия  ·  19–20 June 2025   St Petersburg, Russia

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19 June 2025
Plenary Session
19 June 202510:30 AM – 12:30 PM  ·  Assemby Hall (15 Fontanka)  ·  Online Translation
Moderators: Yana Ivaschenko, Daniil Dorofeev

1. Yana Sergeevna Ivaschenko, DSc in Culture science, Associate Professor; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Vice-Rector for Research

Opening remarks

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

“Subjectivity” in Plato: Levels, Types, Forms

3. Eugene Afonasin, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad, Russia), Professor

Hypodoche

4. Roman Svetlov, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Professor

Hemeneutics, Common Sense and Plato's Texts

Workshop 1 “Platonic Dialogue and Literary Forms in Philosophy”
19 June 20251:00 PM – 6:00 PM  ·  Room 504 (15 Fontanka)  ·  Online Translation
Moderators: Emiliano Mettini, Vladimir Rokhmistrov

1. Maxim Bulanenko, CSc in Philosophy; Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnology of the Peoples of the Far East, Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Vladivostok, Russia), Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy; Far Eastern Federal University (Vladivostok, Russia), Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies

Sergey Fedorov; Far Eastern Federal University (Vladivostok, Russia), Student

Alexander Igorevich Kushtynov; Far Eastern Federal University (Vladivostok, Russia), Student

Philosophy beyond literature: good enough to be true

2. Emiliano Mettini, CSc in Pedagogy; Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University (Moscow, Russia), Head of Department

Wiegel Narine Liparitovna, PhD, Associate Professor; Rostov state medical university (Rostov-on-Don, Russia), Head of Department if philosopy

Plato's dialectic as a basis for critical thinking: resisting the manipulation of public consciousness

3. Gianluigi Segalerba, PhD; Institute for Philosophical Studies (Coimbra, Portugal), Researcher

Soul, Transcendence and Providence in Plato's Phaedrus and Laws

4. Andrey Musatov, CSc in Philosophy, Independent scholar

On the Role of Metaphor in Plato's cosmology

5. Alla Nikolaevna Yanikina, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Kazan State Institute of Culture (Kazan, Russia), Associate Professor

Philosophical dialogue as an “artistic packaging” of Plato’s teachings 

6. Vitaliy Vladislavovich Karimov; Institute of Philosophy and Law of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (Novosibirsk, Russia), Research Assistant

Dramatic turn in Plato studies as a base for multiple interpretations

7. Alexander Rychkov; Union of Philosophers "Volfila" (Satka, Russia), Director of Research

Μαγνῆτις λίθος: the Wanderings of Plato’s Metaphor

8. Olga Vassiljeva; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), MA or MSc

Mysteriological and "magical" lexicon in Plato's philosophy

9. Vladimir Rokhmistrov; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), graduate student

Did Plato determined man?

10. Igor Igorevich Dmitrov; Military Training and Research Center of the Navy «Naval Academy named after Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union N. G. Kuznetsov» (Saint-Petersburg, Russia), University Teacher; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Postgraduate; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Research Assistant

Plato on the distinction between myth and logos in Plato's dialogues

Workshop 2 “Platonism and Aristotelian Tradition”
19 June 20251:00 PM – 6:00 PM  ·  Room 708 (15 Fontanka)  ·  Online Translation
Moderators: Alexander Sanzhenakov, Eugene Makovetsky

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

Has the question of the subject of Aristotle's Categories been resolved?

2. Sergey Melnikov, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; RAS Institute of Philosophy (Moscow, Russia), Senior Researcher

The Peripatetic Cratippus of Pergamon and His Legacy

3. Sergey Leonidovich Katrechko, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; State Academic University for the Humanities (Moscow, Russia), Associate Professor; Foundation for Humanities (Moscow, Russia), Head of Chair "Studies in Transcendental Philosophy"

Plato and Aristotle: did Plato talk about the essence [of things]?

4. Alexander Sanzhenakov, CSc in Philosophy; Institute of Philosophy and Law of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (Novosibirsk, Russia), Research Fellow

Plato and Aristotle on Instrumental Reason

5. Igor Polyakov; Kaliningrad Discussion Club (Kaliningrad, Russia), Chief

A comparative analysis of the political views of Plato and Aristotle

6. Timur Artemev, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; North-Western State Medical University named after I. I. Mechnikov (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor

The role of beauty in the process of catharsis in Plato and Aristotle

7. Pavel Likhter, CSc in Law, Associate Professor; Penza State University (Penza, Russia), Associate Professor

Aristotle's Linguistic Arguments against Plato's Eidos Theory: Implications for Legal Theory

8. Artem Iakimenko, CSc in Theology; Peter the Great St Petersburg Polytechnic University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Postgraduate; LRO Parish Church of St. Alexy the Man of God in Gorelovo, St. Petersburg (Saint-Petersburg, Russia), priest

The Real in Ancient metaphysics and contemporary physics

9. Vladislav A. Shaposhnikov, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Lomonosov Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia), Head of Department

Who was the originator of pure mathematics as a concept: Plato or Aristotle?

Workshop 3 “Platonic Motifs in the Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy”
19 June 20252:00 PM – 6:00 PM  ·  Room 605 (15 Fontanka)  ·  Online Translation
Moderators: Elena Sobolnikova, Oleg Nogovitsin

1. Timur Shchukin, CSc in Philosophy; A.M.Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia), Researcher

What is ἐξωτερικοί λόγοι? The interpretation of a passage from John Philoponus' treatise 'De opificio mundi'

2. Dmitri Chernoglazov, DSc in Philology; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Professor; Sociological Institute, Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Chief Researcher

God's Providence, Fate, and ἀνάγκη in the "History" of John VI Kantakouzenos

3. Oleg Nikolaevich Nogovitsin, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Sociological Institute, Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Senior Researcher

Sources of the School Philosophical Theory of Language in the Byzantine Tradition of Education

4. Andrey Kurbanov, CSc in History; Sociological Institute, Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Researcher; A.M.Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia), Researcher

Lydia Spyridonova, CSc in History; Sociological Institute, Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Research Fellow; A.M.Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia), Research Fellow

Epistolary Theory of the Leichoudes Brothers between Greek and Latin Rhetoric: The Letter as an Oration

5. Lydia Spyridonova, CSc in History; Sociological Institute, Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Research Fellow; A.M.Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia), Research Fellow

Andrey Kurbanov, CSc in History; Sociological Institute, Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Researcher; A.M.Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia), Researcher

The Ancient Athenian Calendar in a Christian Context: Dating Letters in the Epistolary Manual of the Leichoudes Brothers

6. Evgeniy Bykov; Novosibirsk State University (Novosibirsk, Russia), Postgraduate; Institute of Philosophy and Law of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (Novosibirsk, Russia), Associate Research Fellow

Reason and Sensibility in the Sermons of Meister Eckhart

7. Elena Sobolnikova, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Saint Petersburg State Chemical Pharmaceutical University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor; North-Western State Medical University named after I. I. Mechnikov (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor

The Traditions of Neoplatonism in Richard Rolle's Spiritual Lyrics

8. Michael Artemovich Vakhrushev; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Student

Florentine neoplatonism: a dialogue in life and history

9. Maria Trushina; RANEPA St. Petersburg (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Senior Lecturer

Dialogues with Socrates and dialogues with Michelangelo: from εἶδος to disegno

10. Rodion Savinov, CSc in Philosophy; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor; Russian State Hydrometeorological University (Saint-Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor; Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia ( Saint Petersburg, Russia), Research Fellow

Number and Spirit: Subject of Arithmetics by Marsilio Ficino

Workshop 4 “Platonism and the Modern Philosophy”
19 June 20251:00 PM – 4:30 PM  ·  Room 701 (15 Fontanka)  ·  Online Translation
Moderators: Ivan Protopopov, Eugene Malyshkin

1. Ivan Protopopov, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Saint-Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor; Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (Moscow, Russia), Associate Professor; Sociological Institute, Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Major Research Fellow

Simplicity and self-identity of the idea of the soul in Plato and the concept of the transcendental subject in Kant's philosophy

2. Daniil Dorofeev, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Head of the Department of Philosophy, Professor

The iconicity of meaning in poetic-metaphysical statements: Plato, Goethe, Florensky

3. Karine Dilanian; RAS Institute of Philosophy (Moscow, Russia), aspirant

Johannes Kepler's "Harmony of the World" as a philosophical text

4. Eugene Malyshkin, DSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Professor; National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia), Research Fellow

Bounty: Shakespeare Interpreting Plato

5. Viktor V. Golubev; National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia), Student

Dialogical Form as a Way to Present a Philosophical Gift: The 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury on the Value of Ancient Poetry

6. Zoya Metlitskaya, CSc in History; Lomonosov Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia), Assistant Professor

"Platonic songs" by Henry More in 17th century Cambridge

7. Alexandra Ekrogulskaya; independent scholar (n/a, Russia), Independent scholar

Søren Kierkegaard’s Literary-Philosophical Style: Traces of Plato and Romanticism

Workshop 5 “New Approaches to Platonic Studies”
19 June 20251:00 PM – 5:00 PM  ·  Room 704 (15 Fontanka)  ·  Online Translation
Moderators: Elena Alymova, Svetlana Karavaeva

1. Ekaterina Zemtsova; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Postgraduate

Plato's аuthor myth: between philosophy and didactics.

2. Kseniya Savina; Leningrad State University named after A. S. Pushkin (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Research Assistant

Christian Apology in the Context of the Genre of Ancient Philosophy

4. Evgenii Shkliar; European University at St. Petersburg (Saint-Petersburg, Russia), MA or MSc

Parresia as a Tactic of Resistance

6. Nino Zakroshvili; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Postgraduate

The Myth of Cronus in Plato

7. Irina Aleksandrovna Kartashova; Mediasophy, Rutube (Saint-Petersburg, Russia), student

Dialogues as a universal language

8. Fedor Igorevich Evlampiev; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Student

Dostoyevsky's literature philosophy and platonic dialogue

9. Roman Martynov; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Student

Forms of expression of philosophical thought: from verse to dialogue.

10. Mariana Dmitrievna Varfolomeeva; Faculty of liberal arts and sciences SPbU (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Student

The Epistemological Status of Rhetoric: The Plato-Aristotle Debate

12. Danil Sandakov ; SPbU Institute of philosophy (Saint-Petersburg, Russia), student; SPbU Institute of philosophy (Saint-Petersburg, Russia), Student

Retrofuturism as a strategy for interpreting modernity

Workshop 6 “Platonic Tradition in the Culture of the 20th Century”
19 June 20251:00 PM – 4:30 PM  ·  Room 707 (15 Fontanka)  ·  Online Translation
Moderators: Yuriy Tikheev, Maksim Narovetskii

1. Yuriy Tikheev, CSc in Philosophy; Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (Moscow, Russia), Associate Professor

From «science» to «metaphysics». Substantive and Stylistic Features of German Literature on Plato at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century

2. Maksim Narovetskii; Department of Philosophy, FEB RAS (Vladivostok, Russia), Researcher

Myth in Philosophy: Plato's Mythmaking and thoughts on the myth of Clive Lewis

3. Alexandra Sergeevna Kosinskaya, CSc in Philology, Associate Professor; Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad, Russia), Associate Professor

Alla Ivanova; Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad, Russia), Student

Plato's tradition in J.R.R. Tolkien's Legend of Numenor

4. Valeriya Ismiyeva, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; University of World Civilizations (Moscow, Russia), Associate Professor

Reflections of Plato's Concepts and metaphors in J. R. R. Tolkien's epic novel The Lord of the Rings

5. Larisa Timofeevna Retiunskikh, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; MSU-BIT University Shenzhen (Shenzhen , China), Professor; MSU named after Lomonosov (Moscow, Russia), Professor

Conceptual plots of children's literature: from Socrates to the Scarecrow

6. Vadim Rezyuk; University “Dubna” (branch “Lytkarino”) (Dubna, Russia), Lecturer; Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia ( Saint Petersburg, Russia), Applicant; Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University (Moscow, Russia), Associate Professor

The paradox of the crime victim in mass culture in the context of Platonism

7. Michael Alexander Belozerov; BM Interpretation (Moscow, Russia), Independent scholar

Interpretation of Plato's philosophy in Nazy Germany 

Round Table “Subject and Subjectivity in Ancient Philosophy”
19 June 20253:00 PM – 6:00 PM  ·  Room 702 (15 Fontanka)  ·  Online Translation
Moderator: Irina Protopopova

1. Irina Mochalova, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor; Russian State University for Humanities (Moscow, Russia), Senior Research Fellow

Philosophy and Medicine in the Context of Greek Paideia: Philosopher/Doctor, Teacher/Student

2. Rustam Galanin, CSc in Philosophy; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Research Fellow; Saint Petersburg State University, Institute of Theology (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Major Research Fellow

Stoic Platonism of Posidonius: the doctrine of the immortality of the soul

3. Alexei Garadja; Russian State University for Humanities (Moscow, Russia), Major Research Fellow

Four Frenzies from Plato to Ficino

4. Vyacheslav Minak; Russian State University for Humanities (Moscow, Russia), analyst

Aristotle's Theory of Soul and State in Connection with Concept of Subject

5. Anatoly Kurbatov; Saint Petersburg Theological Academy (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Postgraduate

"Turn to oneself" Plotinus on the example of Enn. VI.5

6. Ilya Guryanov, CSc in Philosophy; Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (Moscow, Russia), Associate Professor; Russian State University for Humanities (Moscow, Russia), Senior Research Fellow; Saint Petersburg State University, Institute of Theology (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Senior Research Fellow

The figure of Socrates in Ficino's philosophy: between daimonic subjectivity and typological exegesis

20 June 2025
Workshop 7 “Language and Literary Forms in Philosophy”
20 June 202512:00 PM – 5:00 PM  ·  Room 2213 (55 Malookhtinskiy)  ·  Online Translation
Moderators: Sergey Nikonenko, Svetlana Nikonova

1. Sergey Nikonenko, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Professor; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Professor

Language, Composition and Semantics of Plato's Dialoges from Analytical Point of View

2. Sergey Valentinovich Rassadin, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Tver State University (Tver, Russia), Associate Professor

, independent scholar

The evolution of discursive strategies of Truth in the Ancient Intellectual tradition

3. Dmitry Vasilievich Kononchuk, CSc in Philosophy; Far Eastern Federal University (Vladivostok, Russia), Associate Professor

The Tradition of Reflection as a Criterion of the Genesis of Philosophy

4. Svetlana Borisovna Nikonova, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Vaganova Ballet Academy (St.Petersburg, Russia), Professor; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Professor

Literary origins of philosophy in antiquity and the expansion of literary criticism into philosophy in the 20th century

5. Olga Stavtseva, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Leningrad State University named after A. S. Pushkin (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor

Literary form of philosophy and the purpose of philosophical writing

6. Aleksandra Sergeevna Nikulina; Institute of the philosophy of a human, Herzen University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Postgraduate

The Universality of Language in a Philosophical Dialogue: Plato and Heidegger

7. Evgeny V. Zakablukovskiy, CSc in Philosophy; Kozma Minin Nizhny Novgorod State Pedagogical University — Minin University (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia), Associate Professor

Platonic dialogue legacy: the form as a metaphilosophical paradigm and criterion of philosophical text

8. Ludmila Polikarpova; Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad, Russia), Independent scholar

Plato's creative work is not only True Philosophy, but also High Poetry

9. Nadezhda Victorovna Zudilina, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education “V.I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University” (FSAEI HE "V.I. Vernadsky CFU") (Simferopol, Russia), Associate Professor

The Ontological Status of the Digital “Cave” in the Context of Plato’s Hierarchy of Being

Workshop 8 “Plato and Ancient Culture”
20 June 202511:00 AM – 5:00 PM  ·  Room 2211 (55 Malookhtinskiy)  ·  Online Translation
Moderators: Irina Mochalova, Anna Afonasina

1. Anna Afonasina, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad, Russia), Assistant Professor

The Poetics of Physical Experiment: Empedocles on Breathing

2. Alexey Vladimirovich Bogomolov, CSc in Philosophy; Kozma Minin Nizhny Novgorod State Pedagogical University — Minin University (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia), Associate Professor

Theology of Parmenides in the Context of Philosophical Apophaticism: W. Jaeger vs A. Drozdek

3. Daniil Khmelevskoi; Southern Federal University (Rostov-on-Don, Russia), postgraduate student

Mythology and Philosophy in the Introduction to Parmenides' poem "On Nature"

4. Konstantin Morozov; RAS Institute of Philosophy (Moscow, Russia), Junior Research Fellow; Lomonosov Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia), Postgraduate

The Ring of Gyges and the Central Problem of Moral Motivation

5. Petr Viktorovich Kulikov; RAS Institute of Philosophy (Moscow, Russia), Aspirant

Towards a Metaphysics of Presence. The Parousia Before and After Plato

6. Arsenij Makhnov; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Postgraduate

On Socrates' daimonion in view of etymology

7. Rustam Galanin, CSc in Philosophy; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Research Fellow; Saint Petersburg State University, Institute of Theology (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Major Research Fellow

Phoenician Philosophy and Greek Atomism: the Case of Mochos of Sidon

8. Nikita Zverev; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Postgraduate

The problem of language in platonic tradition: against transcendentalism

9. Kirill Prokopov; National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia), Assistant Professor

Philosophy as Practice of Death: From Plato to the Stoics

10. Vladimir Makovtsev, CSc in Philosophy; The Russian Institute of Theatre Arts (GITIS) (Moscow, Russia), Associate Professor

Hostages of wisdom. Socrates and Oedipus

11. Gleb Sergeevich Zemlyakov; St Alexius College of humanitarian and socio-pedagogical disciplines (Tolyatti, Russia), Lecturer

Existence and Identity in Formal Logic and Philosophy with the Example of the Ancient Philosophical Tradition

12. Fedor Alekseevich Kuznecov; SPbU Institute of philosophy (Saint-Petersburg, Russia), Student

On some of the dichotomies of "The Golden Ass" of Apuleius

13. Vera Serkova, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Peter the Great St Petersburg Polytechnic University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Professor

Socratic irony and representations of reality

Workshop 9 “Neoplatonism and Early Christian Tradition”
20 June 202511:00 AM – 5:00 PM  ·  Room 2101 (55 Malookhtinskiy)  ·  Online Translation
Moderators: Aleksey Panteleev, Fedor Shcherbakov

1. Sergey Levin; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), PhD student

Eschatological expectations of early Christianity in the poetics of the Didache

2. Fedor Borisovitch Shcherbakov, CSc in Philosophy; Russian State Hydrometeorological University (Saint-Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor; Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia ( Saint Petersburg, Russia), Senior Researcher

Transcendental-hermeneutic bases of the Pythagorean allegoresis

3. Maxim Prikhodko, CSc in Philosophy; Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia ( Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Research Fellow

Reception of the Pythagorean Heritage in Philo of Alexandria

4. Eugene Miroshnichenko; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Postgraduate

"Philosophical Religion" of Synesius of Cyrene: between paganism and Christianity

5. Aleksey D. Panteleev, CSc in History, Associate Professor; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor

Tertullian's "On Spectacles" in the Context of the Ancient Tradition of Criticism of Games and Performances

6. Roman Kropotov; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Student

Interpretation of the theory of genades in the writings of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite

7. Dmitry Kurdybaylo, CSc in Philosophy; Saint Petersburg State University, Institute of Theology (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor; Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia ( Saint Petersburg, Russia), Major Research Fellow

On numerical symbols in the writings of St Maximus the Confessor

8. Konstantin Shevtsov, DSc in Philosophy; St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia ( Saint-Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor

Rhetoric and Philosophy in Augustine's Confession

9. Daria Voevoda; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Student

The Origins of Christian Anthropology in Saint Augustine's Confessions

10. Konstantin Bandurovsky, CSc in Philosophy, Lecturer

Dialogue as a Philosophical Genre: From Plato to Augustine

11. Vladimir Bliznekov, PhD; Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (Moscow, Russia), Associate Professor

Relationship between God and man in the „Confessions” of Aurelius Augustine

12. Maksim Sergeevich Nikulin, CSc in Theology, Associate Professor; Saint Petersburg Theological Academy (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor

Angel as an Ideal Personality of Man: Platonic Noology and Sophian Angelology

13. Ilya D Kolesnikov, CSc in Philosophy; Saratov State Law Academy (Saratov, Russia), Associate Professor; Saratov State Conservatory named after L.V. Sobinov (Saratov, Russia), Senior Lecturer

Who introduced the idea of "​​becoming like God" into philosophy: Plato, Socrates or Pythagoreans? Сritical analysis of Stob. Ecl. 2.7.3f

Workshop 10 “Russian Philosophy and Platonic Tradition”
20 June 202512:00 PM – 5:00 PM  ·  Room 2208 (55 Malookhtinskiy)  ·  Online Translation
Moderators: Alexander Sinitsyn, Rostislav Dyomin

1. Tatiana - Artemyeva, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Institute of the philosophy of a human, Herzen University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Professor

Socrates in Russian intellectual culture of the Age of Enlightenment

2. Natalia Danilkina, CSc in Philosophy; Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia), Associate Research Fellow

An essay on lost harmony, or How Leo Tolstoy did not understand freedom

3. Nina Sergeevna Ishchenko, CSc in Philosophy; Lugansk State Agrarian University named after K. E. Voroshilov (Lugansk, Russia), Assistant Professor

Compromise of a character in Dostoevsky: possibilities of use in Platonic philosophy

4. Igor N. Zaitsev, CSc in Philosophy; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor; European University at St. Petersburg (Saint-Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor

The Philosophical Text as Ritual: Platonic Dialectics and Dostoevsky’s Existential Drama

5. Vitaliy Yuryevich Darenskiy, DSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Lugansk State University named after Vladimir Dahl (Lugansk, Russia), Professor

Plato as the "beginning of thought" in the concepts of V.F. Asmus and M.K. Mamardashvili

6. Rostislav Dyomin; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Lecturer

“Conversations with the St. Petersburg Socrates” by Aleksei Kozlov and Plato's dialogues

7. Oksana Egorova; Institute of Philosophy and Law of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (Novosibirsk, Russia), junior researcher

"Russian Plato" and "Russian Aristotle": on posing the question in modern Russian classical studies.

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

Socrates in the works of Ivan Turgenev

9. Anna Viktorovna Tonkovidova; Kuban state university (Krasnodar, Russia), Lecturer

Symbolism as a literary form of expression of sobornost in Russian philosophy based on the reception of Plato's philosophy

10. Artyom Andreevich Gravin, CSc in Technics; A.M.Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia), Senior Researcher; National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia), Researcher; Sociological Institute, Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Senior Researcher

Philosophy of Language vs. Language of Philosophy (correlation of linguophilosophical discourses of V. V. Bibikhin and L. A. Gogotishvili)

11. Oleg Chulkoff, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Admiral Makarov State University of Maritime and Inland Shipping (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor

“Gnostical turpitude:” towards the phenomenology of “nonons”

12. Alexey Alexandrovich Zotkin, CSc in Political science; Lomonosov Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia), Assistant Professor

The mythologem of Atlantis in the works of Plato and the responses of F. Bacon and D.S. Merezhkovsky

Round Table “Hermeneutics of Classical Text as a Form of Philosophical Self-Identity”
20 June 20251:00 PM – 5:00 PM  ·  Room 2201 (55 Malookhtinskiy)  ·  Online Translation
Moderator: Roman Svetlov

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

Plato and Lacan / Socrates and Alcibiades: the Symposium and the Transference

2. Roman Svetlov, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Professor

Noology, apophatics and skepticism

3. Aleksey Kalenda; Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad, Russia), Assistant Professor

The Philosophical doubt of the polemicists of the Ancient and Modern periods

4. Dmitry Kurdybaylo, CSc in Philosophy; Saint Petersburg State University, Institute of Theology (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor; Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia ( Saint Petersburg, Russia), Major Research Fellow

“The most divine Plato” of Iamblichus

5. Alexander Viktorovich Karpuk; Private educational institution of higher education «Moscow international academy» (Moscow, Russia), student; Saint Petersburg Theological Academy (Saint Petersburg, Russia), master of Theology

Parrhesiastic situation peculiarities in Blessed Augustine's dialogue "Soliloquia"

6. Anatoly Kurbatov; Saint Petersburg Theological Academy (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Postgraduate

William of Conches and his glosses on Plato's Timaeus

7. Lada Tsypina, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor

Two Dialogues on Truth and Knowledge: The Problem of the Conceptual Character in Plato and Descartes

8. Ilya Guryanov, CSc in Philosophy; Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (Moscow, Russia), Associate Professor; Russian State University for Humanities (Moscow, Russia), Senior Research Fellow; Saint Petersburg State University, Institute of Theology (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Senior Research Fellow

Hermeneutic features of Marsilio Ficino's De divino furore: notes on a new translation

9. Artyom Andreevich Gravin, CSc in Technics; A.M.Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia), Senior Researcher; National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia), Researcher; Sociological Institute, Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Senior Researcher

Yuliya Yur'evna Anokhina, CSc in Philology; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), researcher; A.M.Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia), senior researcher

Eidetic and logical dimensions of A. F. Losev's dialectics

Round Table “Problems of Modern Aristotelian Studies”
20 June 20251:00 PM – 5:00 PM  ·  Room 2210 (55 Malookhtinskiy)  ·  Online Translation
Moderator: Elena Alymova

1. Elena Alymova, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor

Sophists and Sophistic in the Mirror of Aristotle

2. Svetlana Karavaeva, CSc in Philosophy; North-Western State Medical University named after I. I. Mechnikov (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor

The Tradition of Reading Pseudo-Aristotle: «The Secret of Secrets» as specula principum

3. Stanislav Pavlovich Vyskubov, CSc in History; SBIAE "Palace of Student Youth of St. Petersburg" (Saint-Petersburg, Russia), a chief curator of the museum; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Researcher

"The Gray Horse": Aristotle in Soviet Textbooks and Philosophical Discussion of the 1940s

4. Arsenij Makhnov; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Postgraduate

On the poetic in V.V. Bibikhin's reflection on Aristotle's “forest”.

5. Elena Sobolnikova, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Saint Petersburg State Chemical Pharmaceutical University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor; North-Western State Medical University named after I. I. Mechnikov (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor

Maria Dmitrievna Sobolnikova; Peter the Great St Petersburg Polytechnic University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Baccalaureate

The influence of Aristotelianism on the formation of the Hesychasm tradition

6. Sergey Slobodkovsky; North-Western State Medical University named after I. I. Mechnikov (Saint Petersburg, Russia), assistant

The idea of catharsis in the epic poem "Aeneid"

7. Galiya Mikhailovna Makarova; SPbU Institute of philosophy (Saint-Petersburg, Russia), Student

"On the Trinity": philosophical and theological discourse and the problem of universals

8. Maria Shemyakina; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), PhD student

The problem of the language of philosophy in the horizon of plot formation: Plato's narrative in the light of Aristotle's poetics

Section heading in English
20 June 20255:00 PM – 6:00 PM  ·  Room 2201 (55 Malookhtinskiy)  ·  Online Translation
Moderators: Roman Svetlov, Dmitry Kurdybaylo

1. Vladimir Rokhmistrov; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), graduate student

Presentation of a new translation of Plato’s Parmenides

2. Rustam Galanin, CSc in Philosophy; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Research Fellow; Saint Petersburg State University, Institute of Theology (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Major Research Fellow

Ilya Guryanov, CSc in Philosophy; Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (Moscow, Russia), Associate Professor; Russian State University for Humanities (Moscow, Russia), Senior Research Fellow; Saint Petersburg State University, Institute of Theology (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Senior Research Fellow

Discussion “Is Plato a ‘dualist?’ The opportunities and risks for philosophical research”

33rd International Conference “The Universe of Platonic Thought: Platonism and Literary Forms of Philosophy” (Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities, St Petersburg)

Mariana Dmitrievna Varfolomeeva; Faculty of liberal arts and sciences SPbU (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Student

The Epistemological Status of Rhetoric: The Plato-Aristotle Debate

In Gorgias, Plato sharply contrasts rhetoric with philosophy, comparing it to "cookery for the soul" [1]. For him, rhetoric is the art of superficial persuasion. Like sophistry, it can turn weak arguments into strong ones and unjust claims into seemingly just ones, all while remaining indifferent to genuine knowledge. Aristotle redefines rhetoric, moving beyond Plato’s critique. Contrary to Gorgias, who claimed rhetoric was neutral toward truth, and Socrates, who saw it as inclined toward deception, Aristotle insists that rhetoric is not indifferent to truth [2]. Its essence lies not in ornamental speech but in argumentation, grounded in the enthymeme—rhetoric’s counterpart to the syllogism.The enthymeme, which Aristotle calls "the body of persuasion" (σῶμα τῆς πίστεως) [3], operates through endoxa—commonly held beliefs shared by the audience. By omitting premises obvious to listeners, the speaker does not simplify the argument but engages the audience in co-constructing the conclusion. Thus, rhetoric becomes a method of approaching truth, analogous to dialectic: just as the dialectician demands premises for inquiry, the rhetorician builds arguments on endoxa. In contexts where strict proof is impossible (e.g., law, politics), rhetoric remains the sole instrument for justified decision-making. Aristotle sees it not as manipulation but as practical wisdom (φρόνησις), capable of guiding action through persuasion.This paper will explore the conflict between Platonic and Aristotelian conceptions of rhetoric, demonstrate the role of the enthymeme as a vehicle for endoxa, and justify rhetoric’s place as a method in the pursuit of truth.

Keywords: Rhetoric, enthymeme, endoxia, dialectic, Plato, Aristotle

Plato places rhetoric on the same level as sophistry, flattery, and cunning. It is as just and useful as a cook playing the role of a physician—"a sort of cookery for the soul," [1] the philosopher asserts. Rhetoric deals only with the superficial aspects of communication, what is merely decorative or, worse, deliberately misleading. For Plato, it is the art of deception, of turning unjust arguments into just ones and the better into the worse. While the Platonic Gorgias claims that rhetoric is neutral toward truth and falsehood, and Socrates argues that it is inclined toward falsehood, Aristotle makes a less obvious claim—that rhetoric is inclined toward truth.

What is commonly understood as rhetoric—namely, the organization of speech into prologue, narrative, and epilogue, the classification of rhetorical figures, and the use of different emotional registers—is, in Aristotle’s view, secondary. Rhetoric, as the art of persuasion, is the skill of constructing arguments. The movement toward truth, as the essence of rhetoric, becomes apparent when examining the enthymeme—a deductive argument from signs. Aristotle himself called it "the very body and substance of rhetorical persuasion" [2]. The enthymeme often omits a premise in oral discourse, which can be mentally reconstructed into a full syllogism. The brevity of its form is due to the limited time of speech, the fear of overloading the argument, or an attempt to engage listeners by prompting them to mentally complete the premise. However, the primary function of such truncation is the application of endoxa (commonly accepted opinions). To arrive at truth in reasoning, one must begin with premises that are themselves true. This is endoxa—public or authoritative opinion, tested by time and generations. The citizens of the polis, sharing the same political, social, and cultural context, held the same endoxa. An orator has no need to state what his listeners already believe. The argument begins from the listeners’ endoxa, demonstrating how the conclusion follows from premises the audience accepts. These conclusions, in turn, may become endoxa themselves if correctly derived, thus forming the basis for future speeches. In this way, the cycle of truth in rhetoric is closed. Here also lies the meaning of the correspondence between rhetoric and dialectic—just as the dialectician demands premises from the respondent to begin an inquiry, the rhetorician requires premises to construct an argument. Thus, rhetoric becomes not just an art but also a method.

Persuasion is not always speculation; more often, it is a means of spurring action. Rhetoric traditionally operates in a domain where strict necessity is absent, yet judgments must still be made and acted upon—whether in a court verdict or matters of state security. In such a position, rhetoric struggles to maintain its status as a discipline that generates truths, yet this is precisely how Aristotle saw it, in opposition to Plato. This paper will present the views of Plato and Aristotle on rhetoric, its status, and the connection between rhetoric and dialectic through the lens of the enthymematic argument as containing endoxa.


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