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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)

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

Tolkien's epic fantasy is a multi-layered metaphorical text that provides rich opportunities for various allusions and interpretations. Tolkien's interpretation of Plato's cave metaphor is particularly noteworthy. In the novel, the image of the cave is end–to-end, its main meaning is the designation and symbolization of the stages of overcoming their own delusions by the main characters (Frodo, his friends, Gandalf, etc.), which is associated with increased awareness of choice and ethical enthusiasm. The themes of the cave and the magical artifact of Gyges in Tolkien's discourse are closely intertwined, which complicates the problem of rejecting the temptation of illegitimate domination and emphasizes the impossibility of self-knowledge and acceptance of truth without following ethical principles.; Failure to understand and maintain this connection inevitably leads to tyranny, madness, and death, as illustrated by Tolkien's text. In the novel, the opposition of good and evil acquires a tinge of the binary opposition of the living – inanimate, authentic-inauthentic in connection with the interpretation of Sauron and the orcs created by him as a kind of simulacra. There are also some parallels with Plato's texts: the compositional structure of the "State" (the beginning and end of the story of Frodo's journey), elements of the vision of Er (in connection with the disappearance and transformation of Gandalf), Gandalf's reasoning in the spirit of Socratic dialogue, and some others. 

Keywords: Platonic metaphor of the cave, the Lord of the Rings, simulacrum, tyranny, ethics

Among the most famous and most significant ideas that are played out in Tolkien's text is the so—called Cave metaphor from the seventh book of The State. In some aspects, the entire novel "The Lord of the Rings" could be considered as a kind of expanded metaphor or meta-metaphor of Plato's cave, more precisely, Tolkien's interpretation of some of its aspects, related, as in Socrates' story, to the process of cognition and self-knowledge and the solution of ethical issues. It should also be noted that the mixture of literary genres (mythology, poetry, epic, rhetoric, philosophy, and some others) in Tolkien's text recalls the genre polymorphism of Plato's dialogues.

From the point of view of composition, the "beginning" of "The Lord of the Rings" and the finale have direct parallels with Plato's dialogue "The State".

The semantic parallel with the dialogue "The State" and the metaphor of the Cave, to which I will refer, is not straightforward.

Just as for Plato's Socrates, knowledge is impossible without virtue (a crafty ignorant mind, neglecting the truth, will distort knowledge for the sake of a narrowly understood "benefit", but virtue can be learned), so in each trial Tolkien's characters reach a new level of self-knowledge, which occurs with the next moral choice and following this choice to the next reference point. When comparing "The Lord of the Rings" with the prehistory set forth in "The Silmarillion", the question arises about the connection between Plato's other idea – simulacrum. Melkor is the ultimate distortion of the Creator's (world's) eidos, his shadow and antipode. In this version, Sauron, in his claim to supremacy over the world, is a simulacrum, both in the Platonic and Baudrillardian sense, since he copies something that does not exist. being a copy of a copy himself, Sauron the simulacrum cannot create a genuine living being and, producing countless hordes of evil, stamps out a kind of shadow of a previously living one, hordes of zombies or automatons.

Let's now take a look at the cartography related to the journey of the Guard squad, and list the most significant of them.

A HOBBIT HOLE is a kind of toy cave, and so is the "toy" view of the world among the inhabitants of the Shire, who do not want to go beyond their cozy edge. On the way to the border town, Frodo and his company almost die, first in the crevice of the trunk of an old elm tree, and then in an underground cave under a mound inhabited by ghostly undead. The next CAVE awaits the replenished group of guardian travelers who made up the "brotherhood of the Ring" in Moria. It is worth considering that in ancient Greek, stupidity, absurdity, madness. The next version of the CAVE is a tunnel in the Cirith Ungol pass, through which Frodo and Sam are trying to get into Mordor under the leadership of Gollum. The final chord of the metaphorical katabasis of Sam and Frodo, but more broadly, of all the Guardians who have made their own version of the epistemological journey, is the denouement of the relationship of the dichotomous Frodo–Gollum couple in the CAVE of Orodruin. Let's emphasize that the image of the cave is obviously end–to–end for the whole novel, and its main philosophical meaning is marking the stages of overcoming their own delusions by the main characters, increasing their awareness and ethical enthusiasm. The themes of the cave and the story of Giga in Tolkien's interpretation are closely intertwined, reinforcing the understanding of the difficulty of rejecting claims to domination and the impossibility of gaining access to knowledge/ self-knowledge without following ethical imperatives; according to Tolkien's text, the lack of understanding of this connection inevitably leads to tyranny and death. Moreover, the binary opposition of good and evil acquires a new connotation in the novel: living-inanimate, authentic-inauthentic in connection with the interpretation of Sauron and his creatures as simulacra. We noted some associations with the compositional construction of Plato's "State" (the beginning and end of the story of Frodo's journey), the inversion of the metaphor of philosophical knowledge as ascension (for the sake of establishing justice and saving the lives of the inhabitants of Middle-earth, Frodo and the Ring Keepers descend into the infernal layers of existence, but this is accompanied by their ethical growth), an allusion to the vision of the Era, which It occurs in connection with the disappearance and transformation of Gandalf and the finale of the epic.; We drew attention (without going into detail about this interesting feature) to the stylistic similarity of Gandalf's reasoning with the Socratic dialogue and some other details.

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