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The Universe of Platonic Thought

XXXIV Международная конференция  ·  34th International Conference
22–23 июня 2026   Санкт-Петербург, Россия  ·  22–23 June 2026   St Petersburg, Russia

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22 June 2026
Plenary Session
22 June 202611:00 AM – 1:00 PM
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

Plato in the Academy: Philosophy and/or Science

2. Sergey Avanesov, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Yaroslav-the-Wise Novgorod State University (Veliky Novgorod, Russia), Professor of the Department of Cultural Studies; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Professor

The Principia of Axiology in Plato

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

'Modeling Models' in Plato: Myth as the Visualization of the Route of Philosophical Inquiry

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

The Missing Riddle of Raphael's "The School of Athens"

Workshop 1 “Platonic Dialogue and Ancient Science” (Part 1)
22 June 20261:30 PM – 6:00 PM
Moderators: Alexey Bogomolov, Konstantin Shevtsov

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

Some notes on Plato's Theaetetus

2. Konstantin Shevtsov, DSc in Philosophy; St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia ( Saint-Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor; Sociological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences – branch of the Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Saint Petersburg, Russia), senior research fellow

The organization of space in the myths of the dialogues Timaeus and Phaedo

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

Mythological Origins of Platonic Apophaticism: Ate as an Intimation of Non-Being

4. Alexei Krioukov, CSc in Philosophy; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor

"Imagination", "fantasy", "representation" in ancient philosophy

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

Proclus’ On the Hieratic Art according to the Hellenes

6. 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

Asking Prodicus: The Problem of Correctness of Names in Plato

7. 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 Tragic Dimension of γῆρας: Sophocles, Euripides, Plato

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

People of Plato: the case of Euphraeus of Ores

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

The concept of "nature" (φύσις) in antiquity

Workshop 2 “Russian Philosophy and Platonic Tradition”
22 June 20261:30 PM – 6:00 PM
Moderators: Yuriy Tikheev, Artyom Gravin

1. Denis Shmelev; Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad, Russia), Postgraduate

From Genius to Order: Roman "Pseudomorphosis" in N. Ya. Danilevsky's Philosophy of History

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

Plotinus in Russian Works on the History of Ancient Philosophy of the 19th Century

3. Sergey Ryapolov, CSc in Philosophy; Moscow Aviation Institute (National Research University) (Moscow, Russia), Associate Professor

The aesthetic and ethical dimension of nature (as interpreted by A.F. Losev)

4. Artyom Andreevich Gravin, CSc in Technics; A.M.Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia), Senior Researcher; Sociological Institute, Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Senior Researcher; Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia ( Saint Petersburg, Russia), Assistant Professor

A. F. Losev’s Energy Symbolism: The Concept and Its Possible Interpretations

5. Oksana Egorova; Institute of Philosophy and Law of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (Novosibirsk, Russia), Research Fellow

Peripatetics in Russian Criticism and Bibliography: Reviews and Book Surveys (before 1917)

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

Knowledge by Plato and His Followers in Russian Philosophy

7. Aleksander Shevtsov, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Moscow Aviation Institute (National Research University) (Moscow, Russia), Associate Professor

The doctrine of epistemological unity in Plato and Nikolay O. Lossky

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

Plato and modern russian religious philosophy

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

Aristotle and the Axiological Model of Metaphysics in Russia during the Enlightenment

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

Herodotus, Thucydides, and Karamzin in K.N. Batyushkov's poem «To the Creator of "The History of the Russian State"» (1818)

Workshop 3 “Platonism in the Philosophy of the 20th Century”
22 June 20261:30 PM – 6:00 PM
Moderators: Ekaterina Gogleva, Bogdan Nediak

1. Ilya Vadimovich Kursenko; Université de Caen, Normandie (Caen, France), 3rd year PhD candidate

"Overcoming Plato" as a Structural Motif in European Intellectual History: War, Decadence, and Polemos at the Turn of the 20th Century

2. Sergei Levshin; Far Eastern Federal University (Vladivostok, Russia), Senior Lecturer

E. Husserl on the emergence of Plato's idea of ​​philosophical science (based on "Erste Philosophie" lectures 1923/24).

3. Natalia Danilkina, CSc in Philosophy; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor

Is Mathematics the "Queen of Sciences"? Nicolai Hartmann's Argument

4. Ekaterina Gogleva; Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia ( Saint Petersburg, Russia), Postgraduate

The history of philosophy or "register of friends"? 

5. Irina Koptyakova; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), postgraduate student

Nomoi and Ritournelles: Development of Territory through Refrain, Songs, and Choreography in Deleuze and Plato

6. Mohammed Ammar Hashim Abboodi; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Student

Dialogue as Writing Beyond Genre: Plato and Maurice Blanchot

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

Bruno Latour vs. Plato: Deconstructing the Cave Myth

8. Artiom Abdulaevich Novikov; SPbU Institute of philosophy (Saint-Petersburg, Russia), 1st year undergraduate student

Plato the Collectivist and Plato the Individualist in Popper's Political Philosophy

9. Anna Shashkova; European University at St. Petersburg (Saint-Petersburg, Russia), Postgraduate

Mimesis: From Plato to Theodor Adorno and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe

10. Bogdan Leonidovich Nediak; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Postgraduate

The Problem of the Status of General Ideas in the Metaphysics of Plato and Henri Bergson

Workshop 4 “Platonism in the Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy”
22 June 20261:30 PM – 6:00 PM
Moderators: Eugene Makovetsky, Svetlana Kardinskaya

1. Tigran Tumanain, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Professor

Plato and the socio-political thought of medieval Islam

2. Igor Evlampiev, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Professor

Ancient Greek, Roman, and Jewish components of the European worldview: European consciousness between science and mysticism

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

The problem of the ineffable in the philosophical theology of ancient Platonism and early Christianity

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

The ideas of deification and Theosis in the ancient and Christian worldviews

5. Svetlana Vladlenovna Kardinskaya, DSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Saint-Petersburg State University of Industrial Technologies and Design (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Professor

Human existence at the limit of time (from Plato's Dialogues to Marcus Aurelius's Meditations)

6. Mikhail Artemovich Vakhrushev; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Student

Natural philosophy in neoplatonism: between magic and science

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

Origenistic Motives in John Philoponus' Interpretation of Gen. 1:9-10

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

The significance of paronyms in the theory of categories: How John Philoponus "lowered the philosophical sophistication and precision of the creator of metaphysics"

9. Mikhail Valentinivich Antonyuk; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Postgraduate

"Tree of Porphyry" as a proof of superiority of the Divine essence in the East Syriac Christian tradition

10. Elena Sobolnikova, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Saint Petersburg State Chemical Pharmaceutical University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor

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

The conceptual content of the term «mentis» in Bonaventure's philosophy

11. 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

Universum of incarnated Number: formation of cosmos and creation in Renaissance Platonism

Round Table “Ancient Physics”
22 June 20263:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Moderator: Eugene Afonasin

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

Theophrastus on movement

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

Physics as a spiritual excercise: Empedocles and the Stoics

3. Gamid Abdulganievich Magomedov; Novosibirsk State University (Novosibirsk, Russia), Postgraduate

Empedocles' prologue to Physics and Plato's model of metempsychosis: structural parallels

4. Svetlana Viktorovna Mesyats, CSc in Philosophy; RAS Institute of Philosophy (Moscow, Russia), Research Fellow; Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad, Russia), Research Fellow

How can time be an image of eternity? Proclus' exegesis of Pato's definition of time in "Timaeus".

5. Eva Nechveeva; Tomsk State University (Tomsk, Russia), Postgraduate

The phenomenological turn in Aristoxenus’ Harmonics

6. Ivan Sergeevich Nepryakhin; Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad, Russia), Research Assistant

Reception and Transformation of the Mythologeme of Chaos in Aristotle’s Physics

7. Oleg Albertovich Donskikh, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Novosibirsk State University of Economics and Management (Novosibirsk, Russia), Professor

The idea of unity in the formation of philosophy

Round Table “Hermeneutics of Classical Text as a Form of Philosophical Self-Identity”
22 June 20263:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Moderator: Roman Svetlov

1. 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

Plato and Saint Augustine: time conceptions of "Timaeus" and "Confessiones"

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

Strange Platonists - from Eratosthenes to Theodahadus

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

The problem of the criterion of truth in the polemic between Academic skeptics and Stoics

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; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor

Neoplatonic Interpretations of Plato’s Parmenides: The Problem of Exegetical Method

5. Ilya Guryanov, CSc in Philosophy; Saint Petersburg State University, Institute of Theology (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Senior Research Fellow

Platonism of multiplicity: Ficino's polemic against the Averroist doctrine of the unicity of intellect

6. Artyom Andreevich Gravin, CSc in Technics; A.M.Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia), Senior Researcher; Sociological Institute, Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Senior Researcher; Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia ( Saint Petersburg, Russia), Assistant Professor

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

Phenomenology and Platonism in A. F. Losev's Philosophy of the Name

7. 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, Plotinus, Deleuze: the adventures of a simulacrum

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

"Paradox of the Coincidence of Plato and Kant" in Schopenhauer's Theory of Nature and Aesthetics

23 June 2026
Workshop 5 “Platonic Dialogue and Ancient Science” (Part 2)
23 June 202612:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Moderators: Pavel Likhter, Oleg Chulkov

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

Plato's "Laws" and Legal Positivism

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

Three forms of Plato's ideal state in their unity and complementarity

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

Daimon and chance: from Plato to Aristotle.

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

The Religious Context of Virgil's Aeneid. The ambiguity of Aeneas.

5. 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

Hecateus of Abdera and Jews

6. Gleb Sergeevich Zemlyakov; SPbU Institute of philosophy (Saint-Petersburg, Russia), Lecturer

Thesis of Parmenides “Being Is”: An Attempt at Formal-Logical Reconstruction

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

On the issue of geographical localization of Islands of the Blessed

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

Significance of Socrates' Daimonion in Platonic Theology and Metaphysics

9. Maximilian Neapolitanskiy; Sociological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences – branch of the Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Junior Research Fellow

Geographical imagination and knowledge in Plato's Phaedo: on the navigation of subterranean space

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

The form and structure of Plato's dialogues in the dramatic approach 

Workshop 6 “Platonic Tradition in the Late Antiquity”
23 June 20261:30 PM – 6:00 PM
Moderators: Aleksey Panteleev, Rustam Galanin

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

Architectural Principles and Tasks of Eschatology

2. Igor Khmara; The Glinka Choral College (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Assistant Professor

Alexandrian philosophical school: educational practices and their context

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

Plato on Aristotle's insight and Porphyry on the "mind of Ammonius"

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

Elements of Middle Platonic Noology in the Biblical Exegesis of Philo of Alexandria

5. 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

The Mysterious Conciseness in Philo's Philosophy  

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

Harmony of the Soul in Philo of Alexandria and Origen

7. Aleksey D. Panteleev, CSc in History, Associate Professor; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Research Fellow

Origen and Ambrose: an intellectual and his benefactor

8. Fedor Borisovitch Shcherbakov, CSc in Philosophy; Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia ( Saint Petersburg, Russia), Senior Researcher; Emperor Alexander I St. Petersburg state transport university (Санкт-Петербург, Russia), Associate Professor

Pythagorean arrhythmology in Gnostic allegoresis of the 1st-3rd centuries

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

Invisible subject: is knowing of matter possible, according to Plotinus?

10. Olga Vassiljeva; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Postgraduate

From convention to presence: Jamblichus' synthemata as existential indexes in logical pragmatism of Ch.S. Pierce

11. Oleg Nikolaevich Nogovitsin, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; A.M.Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia), Senior Researcher

The Neoplatonic theory of language and John Philoponus’ interpretation of the Genesis narrative of God’s acts of creation  

Workshop 7 “New Approaches to Platonic Studies”
23 June 202612:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Moderators: Elena Alymova, Cyrill Novikov

1. Marina Grigoreva; Lomonosov Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia), Postgraduate

The Dramaturgy of logos in Aristotle’s ethics

2. Сергей Сидоров, independent scholar

The development of ideas about morality, the state, and law from early Plato to his mature works

3.  Iulia Artemovna Ostapenko; State Academic University for the Humanities (Moscow, Russia), Student

From the Chariot of the Soul to the Transcendental Method: Plato, Kant, Yoga

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

Knowledge parity: knowledge of what exists

5. , independent scholar

Penia as a mythological basis for understanding of matter in Plato`s philosophy

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

The Heuristic Potential of Plato's Ontology, metaphysics, and epistemology for creative collaboration between philosophy, theology, and science 

7. Maksim Lukoshnikov; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Student

Euthyphro dilemma and Divine command theory

8. Irina Aleksandrovna Kartashova; Mediasophy, Rutube (Saint-Petersburg, Russia), Film and TV director

Myriad eyes

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

"To be or not to be": rethinking Parmenides in the context of Platonic philosophy as the science of being.

10. Elizaveta Pereslavtceva; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Student

The formation of optical theory in Plato's Timaeus and Republic

11. Cyrill Novikov; The Russian Christian Academy of the Humanities (St. Petersburg, Russia), Applicant

The Neoplatonic origins of L. P. Karsavin's symphonic personality: the reception of Plotinus' philosophy.

12. Elizaveta Sergeevna Burchikova; The Russian Christian Academy of the Humanities (St. Petersburg, Russia), Student

The Herodotean Model of Moral-Historical Narrative in A.N. Radishchev's "Historical Song"

13.  Aleksei Dmitrievich Gruzdev; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Student

Plato's political ethics

15. Irina Albertovna Khuziakhmetova; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Master of Religious Studies

The category of "being" as overcoming the "incomprehensible" in the philosophy of S.L.Frank

16. Olga Grigorova; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), master's student

The etymological and culturological significance of the concept of "The Good," as reflected in the philosophies of Plato and Plotinus

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

Eschatological narratives in Plato's dialogues: Phaedo, Republic X, Timaeus

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

On Anaxagoras as a philosopher of consciousness

Workshop 8 “Platonism and Modern Science”
23 June 202612:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Moderators: Alexander Savishchenko, Nikita Zverev

1. 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 road to reality in Ancient Metaphysics and Modern Science

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

Plato's existential programme with predecessing constructs of reality

3. Alexander Olegovich Gladkovsky; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Student

Platonic Realism and the Nominalist foundations of scientific thought

4. Igor Kachanov; LTD "NordEnergoGroup Information Technologies" (Saint-Petersburg, Russia), Leading Researcher

Is the space of probabilities a mathematical projection of Plato's world of ideas?

5. Nikita Zverev; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Research Fellow; Sociological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences – branch of the Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Research Fellow

A Platonic Approach to Space: A Solution to Zeno's Aporia of the Flying Arrow

6. Alexander Nikolaevich Savishchenko; Budyonny Military Academy of the Signal Corps (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Senior Lecturer

Platonic and Anti-Platonic Tendencies in Soviet Cybernetics

8. Dmitry Alekseyevich Kleopov; independent scholar (n/a, Russia), Independent Researcher

Apology Plato, or The reasonable Effectiveness of Plato's Philosophy

Workshop 9 “Platonic Tradition in the History of Arts”
23 June 202612:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Moderators: Daniil Baturin, Maksim Narovetskii

1. Alexandra Vasilievna Abakshina; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Postgraduate

The theatricality of Plato's chora: receptacle, mimesis, scene.

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

On the concept of virtue in W. Shakespeare's Tragedy Hamlet and its interpretation in the context of the Ethical Teachings of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle

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

Typology of Nihilism: Plato’s Gorgias and Dostoevsky’s Demons

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

Алла Иванова; Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad, Russia), MA or MSc

Correlation between law, justice and power in Plato's "The State" and J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings"

5. Daniil Antonovich Baturin, CSc in Philosophy; University of Tyumen (Tyumen, Russia), Associate Professor

The genealogy of philosophical-anthropological approaches to games: religious origins and research methodologies

6. Alexei Noskov; Saint-Petersburg State University of Industrial Technologies and Design (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Lecturer

Medicine for the soul in the practice self-care

7. Anna Uspenskaya, DSc in Philology, Professor; Saint-Petersburg University of the humanities and social sciences (Saint-Petersburg, Russia), Professor Emeritus; Saint-Petersburg University of the humanities and social sciences (Saint-Petersburg, Russia), Professor Emeritus; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Professor

Antiquity in the creative destiny of A.A. Fet

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

The Stoic and Ironist Socrates in Vladimuir Mayakovsky’s “derision”

Workshop 10 “Platonism and Analytical Philosophy”
23 June 202612:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Moderators: Eugene Malyshkin, Ivan Protopopov

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

Is it possible to study things without names? Commentary on Socrates' statement in "Cratylus" (438e)

2. 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

Cognition of ideas and self-knowledge of the soul as the main task of philosophy in Plato

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 on the "method" of philosophy (metaphysics). How is meta-metaphysics possible?

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

The concept of participation in Leibniz's metaphysics: another monadology

5. Aleksandra Sergeevna Nikulina, CSc in Philosophy; independent scholar (n/a, Russia), Independent scholar

Plato's concept of participation as a precondition of theoretical knowledge

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

Is It Possible to Naturalize Platonic Ethics?

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

The method of the idea: the emergence of the concepts of noema and noesis in Plato and Aristotle

8. Lika Kareva; The University of Oklahoma (Norman, United States of America), MA or MSc; independent scholar (n/a, Russia), Independent scholar (Moscow, Russia)

Argument and Whole: Plato's Mature Philosophical Method as the Nexus of Analytic and Dramatic Interpretations

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

The implicit Platonism of R. Descartes and J. Locke

10. Yulia D. Budman, CSc in Philology; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Senior Research Fellow; The Kosygin State University of Russia (Moscow, Russia), Associate Professor

Philosophy of Language as a Reflection of Ethnic Identity

Closing Plenary Session
23 June 20265:00 PM – 6:30 PM
Moderator: Dmitry Kurdybaylo

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

Narine Liparitovna Wiegel, DSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education «N.I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University» of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation (Noscow, Russia), Professor

The Multitude and Unity of Being: Plato's "Parmenides" and Quantum Physics

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

The Life of Inquiry in Plato’s Phaedo

3. 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

"No one does evil voluntarily": Plato, Dostoevsky, and the problem of conscious evil

34th International Conference “The Universe of Platonic Thought: Plato the Architect of Sciences”

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

Алла Иванова; Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad, Russia), MA or MSc

Correlation between law, justice and power in Plato's "The State" and J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings"

The concept of law is contemplated in the context of notions of justice and power in the dialogue "The State" by Plato. The ideas of correlation between power and justice expressed by the different characters participating in the dialogue are compared. Within the framework of the historical and philosophical approach, the ideas of Plato's Thrasymachus and his historical prototype are compared.  Socrate's idea of justice as morality and happiness is apposed to Glaucon's notion of justice as a virtue that is impossible to practice without coertion. It is noted that the Gig's ring from the myth told by Glaucon, illustrating his idea of justice, became the prototype of Tolkien's world-famous Ring of Power. Within the framework of the comparative method, the myth of Gig's ring is considered as a precedent text for Tolkien's ''The Lord of the Rings''.

Keywords: Plato, "The State", Socrates, Glaucon, Thrasymachus, power, justice, law, Gig, The Ring of Power, Tolkien

In «The State», Plato’s guide to the organization of an ideal society, the theme of law first appears at the beginning of the dialogue, in reflections on the nature of justice. Justice is initially seen as virtue and wisdom. In a dispute with Thrasymachus, Socrates (and his point of view is shared by the author) is confronted with the opinion that justice, embodied in the law of a state, degenerates into injustice. After all, those who establish the law and write laws do it for themselves –those who are in power. Power give them great advantages, while for a just person, staying in power carries continuous losses, while an unfair one only enriches and strengthens his power – that's what Thrasymachus sees around him (and the real life Thrasymachus pronounced exactly the same ideas in his speeches). Injustice, nepotism and the cult of power reign in society. Plato’s arguments about the triumph of justice and morality fade slightly, he, like any true idealist, is confronted with reality. But Plato, fortunately for us who believe in the ideals of justice, does not give up. Through a series of logical arguments, he nevertheless leads Thrasymachus to the conclusion that the rule and care of a low soul will invariably be bad, but for an exalted soul it all turns out well. However Glaucon, recalls that  the majority of people practice justice only for a reward, for the sake of respect and fame. Justice is said to be so difficult in itself that it is easier to avoid it. Glaucon takes upon himself a broader statement of Thrasymachus' position. It reminds us of the entire history of mankind, how often a person gets involved with injustice, and how he suffers from it. People found it expedient to come to an agreement with each other so as not to create injustice and not to suffer from it. This is where legislation and mutual agreement originated. The essence of justice “according to the law” (for Glaucon) is something in between a situation where injustice is committed with impunity and when a person has to endure injustice against himself. Later, this idea was acknowledged by T. Hobbes. The law is a limiter of natural self–serving human principles, which forcibly enforces ethical standards. Glaucon’s idea is as follows: “Now that those who practise justice do so involuntarily and because they have not the power to be unjust”(Plato, 360 S). Here the speaker cites the myth of the shepherd Gyges’s ring to support his point of view. Doubts about the idea of true justice are shaded by the “to be or to seem” plot, which has survived to the present day in the face of numerous political technologies. Glaucon”s brother Adeimant wonders how can young people be taught if injustice is so attractive. Control or interference from the gods is not something that can be guaranteed (Plato will later develop this idea in the “Laws”). Socrates does not immediately respond to this request, Plato switches to describing various aspects of the development of the state, but does not abandon his initial attitude towards the regulatory existence of ideas. After the myth of the cave, another idea is added – the idea of virtue. That is, Plato does not limit himself to introducing the concept of “law” (which would regulate the life of society), but strives to keep the idea of justice above the physical world, above written rules and regulations, precisely because it is not the law itself that affects a person, but the idea of justice that lives in him (or at least at least, it ought to). It is a guiding (one might say, normative) one for both man (who has tamed his temper) and for the state (or Republic which has received a highly moral ruler), because, as Socrates puts it, it is better for every person to be under the rule of the divine and rational principle, especially if you have it in yourself as something of your own. Plato returned to a detailed analysis of law as legislation in “The Laws”. The basis for all of Plato’s arguments about law is the idea of justice, and it is regulatory.  This, in fact, generates the principle of the possibility of correcting legal norms – when they cease to correspond to the idea of justice (become obsolete, become dependent on the current government, etc.). If you don't have a written law, then, to paraphrase Kant, go for justice and you'll get it right.

If we return to Plato's argument, we can note his observation that outwardly injustice is very attractive. This means, he argues, that young people need to be educated and taught about the true face of injustice, that even if hidden, injustice is an ulcer to the human soul and can never lead to happiness. In the twentieth century, J.R.R. Tolkien borrowed a magical artifact from the myth about Gyges for his “The Lord of the Rings”. He elaborated in detail on the properties of the ring and even rings (in contrast to the schematism of Plato's narrative), and probed various types of interaction between the characters and the Ring of Power.  By complicating and psychologizing the characters’ relationship with a magical artifact, Tolkien, on the one hand, shows the unattractiveness of injustice and immorality (using Gollum as an example), on the other hand, the hopelessness of using unlimited power for the benefit of even the most beautiful ideals (Boromir), on the third, the voluntary renunciation of omnipotence in order to preserve one’s own identity (Galadriel, Gandalf following the path of Socrates), and finally, the original way of interacting with the Ring of Power of the Hobbits and Tom Bombadil, consisting in the unwillingness to possess the greatest power, preferring the simple and everyday joys of life to the power of the Ring (Bilbo, Sam). 

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