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МОО «Платоновское философское общество»
The Universe of Platonic Thought
Универсум платоновской мысли

31st International Conference  ·  XXXI Международная конференция
22–23 June 2023   St Petersburg, Russia  ·  22–23 июня 2023   Санкт-Петербург, Россия

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22 June 2023
Plenary Session
22 June 202311:00 AM – 1:30 PM · Assembly Hall
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Moderators: Emiliano Mettini, Dmitry Kurdybaylo

1. Roman Svetlov, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad, Russia), Director of the Higher School of Philosophy, History, and Social science

Opening of the Conference

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

The problem of the subject in the Theaetetus

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

Plato and struggle with Sensationalism and Empiricism: from the visible to the contemplative 

4. Daniil Dorofeev, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; St Petersburg Mining University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Head of the Department of Philosophy, Professor

Idea, Image, Symbol: Plato's Dialectic of the Visible-Invisible and the Self-Perfection of the Soul

5. Roman Svetlov, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad, Russia), Director of the Higher School of Philosophy, History, and Social science

Direct and backward: visualization of the "movement of the soul" in "Timaeus" and "Statesman"

Workshop 1: “Modern Historical and Philosophical Approaches to Plato's Dialectics” (Part 1)
22 June 20232:00–6:30 PM · Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities, room 604
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Moderators: Roman Svetlov, Daniil Dorofeev

1. Gianluigi Segalerba, PhD, Independent scholar

Individuals, Ideas and Dialectic

2. Konstantin Shevtsov, DSc in Philosophy; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor

Dialectics of the ideal body

3. Alexey Bogomolov, CSc in Philosophy; Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad, Russia), Associate Professor

Hesiod's "Proto-apophatics": not only Χάος?

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

Receptions to Hesiod in the Corpus of Plato's Works

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

The Problem of Dialectics in Plato's dialogue "Parmenides"

6. Artem Iakimenko, CSc in Theology; LRO Parish Church of St. Alexy the Man of God in Gorelovo, St. Petersburg (Saint-Petersburg, Russia), priest; Institute of the philosophy of a human, Herzen University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), MA or MSc

Socrates' Dialectic as the Foundation of Plato's Metaphysics

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

Dialectics of the Megarian school and debaters (bianzhe) of ancient Chinese philosophy.

Workshop 2: “Dialectics, Logic, and Language in Plato”
22 June 20232:00–6:30 PM · Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities, room 601
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Moderators: Sergey Nikonenko, Andrey Musatov

1. Sergey Nikonenko, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Professor

Dialectic of the Meaning of Name in the Cratylus

2. 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

Dialectics through the eyes of modern logic: an attempt at constructive interpretation

3. Sergey 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"

Dialectics as a method of [philosophical] cognition: two Platonic cases from the «Phaedo» and «Parmenides»

5. Vadim Mursky, CSc in Philosophy; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor

The Multiform Dialectic of Plato and Its Eleatic Roots

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

How Plato understood space

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

Parmenides' thesis «being is» from existential meaning to predicative form

8. Marina Sorokina; Institute of the philosophy of a human, Herzen University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Postgraduate; Yaroslav-the-Wise Novgorod State University (Veliky Novgorod, Russia), Lecturer

Comparing and Contrasting Socratic Elenchus and Brainstorming

9. Natalia Danilkina, CSc in Philosophy; Sociological Institute, Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Research Fellow

Platonic Dialectic in the Project of Formal Ontology

Workshop 3: “New Approaches to Platonic Studies”
22 June 20232:00–6:30 PM · Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities, room 703
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Moderators: Elena Alymova, Konstantin Shurunov

1. Vitaliy Alyetkin; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Student

The origins of Plato's philosophy in the teachings of Empedocles

2. Ilya Gulakov; Institute of the philosophy of a human, Herzen University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), MA Student

Classification of the use of the term Sheol in the Old Testament

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

Dialectical method in search of happiness: Pyrrho and Aristotle

4. Vladislav Burenkov; Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia ( Saint Petersburg, Russia), MA Student

The role of mathematics in Plato's teaching

5. Yuna Samdan; Novosibirsk State University (Novosibirsk, Russia), Student

The cathartic potential of elenchos in Plato

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

The time of Cronus and the figure of deus otiosus in Plato’s cosmology

7. Timofei Anufriev; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Student

Plato as an absurdist writer

8. Evgeni Shklyar; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Student

Ancient postmodern

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

The renascence of the ancient discussion on motion in XXI century physics.

Workshop 4: “Plato and Russian Philosophy”
22 June 20232:00–6:30 PM · Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities, room 704
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Moderators: Eugene Makovetsky, Artyom Gravin

1. Alexander Prokhorov, CSc in Philosophy; Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad, Russia), Researcher

"External Revelation" as a type of historical memory in the metaphysics of J. G. Schwarz

2. Igor R. Tantlevskij, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Chairman of the Department of Jewish Culture

Liberty and political power in the poem by Pushkin [Из Пиндемонти]

3. Danil Popov, CSc in Philosophy; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Postgraduate

Dialectic, eristic, and narrative: the images of stoicism and stoic philosophy in the journal "Faith and Reason" (1884-1917).

4. Aleksandr Begichev; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Postgraduate

The Image of Neoplatonism on the Pages of Russian Journals of the XIX Century

5. Anna Tonkovidova; Kuban State University of Physical Education, Sports and Tourism (Krasnodar, Russia), Senior Lecturer

Reception of Plato's philosophy in the work of S.L. Frank “Reality and man: metaphysics of human being”: dialektics of reality and freedom

6. Victor Kupriyanov, CSc in Philosophy; St Petersburg Branch of the S. I. Vavilov Institute for the History of Science and Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Major Research Fellow

P.B. Struve and S.L. Frank on the ancient origins of the organic and mechanic theories of society 

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

The teaching about Sophia in the metaphysics of E.N. Trubetscoy: between all-unity and personalism

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

"Man has nothing of his own except sin": "own" in the understanding of Theodore of Raithu, Angela of Foligno and Lev Karsavin

9. Vyacheslav Minak; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Postgraduate

Elements of Romanticism and Symbolism in the literary heritage of A.N. Yegunov

10. Roman Svetlov, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad, Russia), Director of the Higher School of Philosophy, History, and Social science

A.N. Egunov’s assessment of the translation of the Apology of Socrates

11. Denis Fedorov, CSc in Social science; Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad, Russia), Associate Professor

Olga Anderson; Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad, Russia), Research Assistant

About the manuscript from A.N. Egunov’s archive “Greek novel in Russian translations”

12. Vyacheslav Minak; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Postgraduate

A. N. Egunov and the Literature of Western Europe

13. Artyom Gravin, CSc in Technics; 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), Senior Researcher

A. F. Losev's dialectic in the linguophilosophy perspective

Round Table “The Problem of Subject in the Antiquity and its Receptions in the culture of the Renaissance and Modern Times”
22 June 20232:00–6:30 PM · Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities, room 705
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Moderators: Irina Protopopova, Ilya Guryanov

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

Dispute about the subject: Plato vs. Antisthenes

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

Demonological System of Calcidius in His “Commentarius on Plato’s ‘Timaeus’”

3. 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

Cosmos without 'individuals': the definition of the subject in Renaissance Platonist philosophy

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

Nadezhda Volkova, CSc in Philosophy; Russian State University for Humanities (Moscow, Russia), Leading Researcher

The Subject of Language in Protagoras' Philosophy: Dialectics of the Individual and Community / Polis

5. Vyacheslav Minak; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Postgraduate

On some ways of detecting the subject in Aristotle's philosophy

6. Daria M Dorokhina, CSc in Philosophy; Russian State University for Humanities (Moscow, Russia), Lecturer

Subject and "external" world: understanding of Platonism in Russian metaphysical personalism

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

Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics" at the Early Early Age of the Reformation: A Commentary by F. Melanchthon (1529)

Round table “Palestine as the Place where Man Hears God: Concepts of Prophetism, Messianism, and Eschatology in Late Antiquity and Their Reminiscences in Russian Thought in the 19th and 20th Centuries”
22 June 20232:00–6:30 PM · Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities, room 603
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Moderator: Igor Tantlevskij

1. Igor R. Tantlevskij, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Chairman of the Department of Jewish Culture

Eschatology in the pseudepigrapha from Qumran

2. Igor R. Tantlevskij, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Chairman of the Department of Jewish Culture

Features of the concept of 'profetism' in the Qumran commentaries-pesharim

3. Oleg Redkin, DSc in Philology, Professor; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Head of Chair

Palestine - a place of synthesis of philosophical ideas and views

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

The Legend of the “Babylonian Hermes” in Late Antique Literature

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

On one idea of Plotinus in the treatise "Against the Gnostics" as a criterion for distinguishing between Neoplatonic and Gnostic influences in subsequent philosophy

6. Dmitry Kurdybaylo, CSc in Philosophy; National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia), Researcher; Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad, Russia), Major Research Fellow; Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia ( Saint Petersburg, Russia), Major Research Fellow

The Concept of the “War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness” in the Educational Model of Origen

7. Igor R. Tantlevskij, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Chairman of the Department of Jewish Culture

Biblical soteriology, the Neoplatonist Marsilio Ficino’s doctrine of anima nutritiva, and Shakespeare’s Sonnet 146 

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

Reception of Messianic ideas in Russia.

9. Roman Svetlov, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad, Russia), Director of the Higher School of Philosophy, History, and Social science

Julian the Apostate in D. Merezhkovsky's novel "Death of the Gods"

23 June 2023
Workshop 1: “Modern Historical and Philosophical Approaches to Plato’s Dialectics” (Part 2)
23 June 202311:00 AM – 5:00 PM, break 2:00–2:30 PM · Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities, room 604
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Moderators: Vadim Rezyuk, Pavel Likhter

1. Sergey Melnikov, CSc in Philosophy, Professor; Lomonosov Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia), Associate Professor

Two testimonies of Timon of Phlius about Plato: Timo Phliasius, Silloi, fr. 793 Lloyd-Jones & Parsons = 19 Di Marco et fr. 828 Lloyd-Jones & Parsons = 54 Di Marco.

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

Fallibilism in the philosophy of Skeptics

3. Andrey Tikhonov, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Southern Federal University (Rostov-on-Don, Russia), Associate Professor

Can we consider the dialectics of "Parmenides" as a meta-realism?

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

Spatial-temporal features of the ideal state of Plato.

5. 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

Dialectic of the concept of the state and of the content of statehood

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

Antique dialectics in legal science

7. Sergey Rassadin, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; RAS Institute of Philosophy (Moscow, Russia), Postgraduate, Associate Professor

Nataliya Kozlova, DSc in Political science, Associate Professor; Tver State University (Tver, Russia), Deputy Head of Department

Plato's Social Dialectic: the Discursive Transformation of Human Sets into a Political Whole

Workshop 5: “Plato’s Dialectics in the Late Ancient and Medieval Philosophy”
23 June 202311:00 AM – 5:00 PM, break 2:00–2:30 PM · Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities, room 601
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Moderators: Aleksey Panteleev, Fedor Shcherbakov

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

Philosophy, Astrology and Power in the Early Roman Empire: the Case of Thrasyllus

2. Fedor Shcherbakov, CSc in Philosophy; St Petersburg Mining University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Assistant

Allegoria sub specie aeternitatis: Categories of Space and Time in the Late Ancient Allegorical Literature

3. Maksim Nikulin, CSc in Theology; Institute of the philosophy of a human, Herzen University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Postgraduate; Saint Petersburg Theological Academy (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor

On the nature of gods in Plato and neoplatonism

4. Maxim Prikhodko, CSc in Philosophy; The Parish of St. Nicolas Russian Orthodox Church (Seville, Spain), priest; Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad, Russia), Associate Research Fellow

Archetypal Images of Basileus in the Panegyrics of Eusebius of Caesarea

5. Igor Khmara; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Assistant Professor

Philosophy in the late Antiquity Alexandria: the questions of practice and methods

6. Dmitry Kurdybaylo, CSc in Philosophy; National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia), Researcher; Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad, Russia), Major Research Fellow; Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia ( Saint Petersburg, Russia), Major Research Fellow

On the Origins of the Concept of ‘Similar Dissimilarities’ in the Corpus Areopagiticum

7. Timur Shchukin; Sociological Institute, Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Researcher

The Primary Mind and the External Mind: Intellectual Contemplation by Simeon the New Theologian and Michael Psellos

8. Nikolay Kuzmin; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Student

Meister Eckhart in the horizon of the Neoplatonic Tradition

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

Synonymy and homonymy in the concept of being: the ontological doctrine of George Gemistus Plethon

Workshop 6: “Plato’s Dialectics in the Philosophy of the Renaissance and Modernity”
23 June 202311:00 AM – 5:00 PM, break 2:00–2:30 PM · Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities, room 703
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Moderators: Ivan Protopopov, Ilya Guryanov

1. 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

Method and self-knowledge in Marsilio Ficino's medical and philosophical notions of epidemics

2. Ivan Protopopov, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Saint-Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor

The Unity of Opposites as a Principle of Plato and Hegel Dialectics

3. Irina Batrakova, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; North-Western State Medical University named after I. I. Mechnikov (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor

Dialectics of Plato, its types and reception in the history of philosophy.

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

Various forms of dialectic: Plato, Sextus Empiricus, Hegel

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

Dialectical form of thinking in Plato's philosophy as the first method of cognition of truth

6. Karen Mirzoev; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Student

The Necessity of Utopia: Platonic Dialectics and Marxist Production

7. Alexey Streltsov, CSc in Philosophy; Institute of Philosophy and Law of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (Novosibirsk, Russia), Research Fellow

Epistemological triad in "Socratic memorabilia" of J. G. Hamann

8. Ilya Dementev, CSc in History, Associate Professor; Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad, Russia), Associate Professor

Plato studies in Königsberg

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

The state as spiritual aricstocracy in Plato's and Fichte's filosophies

Workshop 7: “Plato and Modern Philosophy”
23 June 202311:00 AM – 5:00 PM, break 2:00–2:30 PM · Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities, room 704
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Moderators: Vitaliy Darenskiy, Daniil Khmelevskoi

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

The principles of Aristotle's rhetoric in the works of S.I. Povarnin

2. Vitaliy Darenskiy, DSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Lugansk State Pedagogical University (Lugansk, LPR, Russia), Professor

Plato's Dialectic as a method of Consciousness Conversion

3. Sergei Mokievski; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Student

Perception of Plato's "Republic" characteristics and purpose by Leo Strauss

4. Maxim Kozhemyakin, CSc in Psychology; Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad, Russia), Associate Professor

Lacan reads Plato

5. Nadezhda Makarova; Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad, Russia), Research Laboratory Assistant; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Student

Plato’s “the theory of the care of the self:” what is “self”

6. Andrew Volodin; Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad, Russia), Student

Why does Leo Strauss return us to Plato?

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

Quasi-Platonic dialectics in the phenomenology of E. Husserl

8. Danil Krutov; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), MA or MSc

Are the principles of Plato's ethical dialectics relevant today?

9. Daniil Khmelevskoi; Southern Federal University (Rostov-on-Don, Russia), MA Student

Dialectics and Myth as a Space for Metaphilosophy in Plato's Philosophy

10. Gleb Kupriyanov; National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia), Student

Platonic Dialectics as Superfluous in Martin Heidegger's Philosophy of the 1920s

Workshop 8: “Plato in the History of Culture”
23 June 202312:00 AM – 5:00 PM, break 2:00–2:30 PM · Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities, room 705
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Moderators: Alexander Sinitsyn, Oleg Chulkoff

1. Alexander Sinitsyn, CSc in History, Associate Professor; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor, Head of the RChAH cinema club; Russian State Institute of Performing Arts (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor

Roman Svetlov, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad, Russia), Director of the Higher School of Philosophy, History, and Social science

Symposium at Agathon: Reflections on Marco Ferreri's TV movie Le Banquet (1989)

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

Poetics of aporias

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

Irony and Dialectic in Plato's Dialogues

4. Dmitri Chernoglazov, DSc in Philology; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor

Philosophy and epistolary etiquette: Platonic salutation εὖ πράττειν in the letters of the Palaiologan period.

5. Rodion Savinov, CSc in Philosophy; St. Petersburg State University of Veterinary Medicine (Санкт-Петербург, Russia), Associate Professor

Plato among Anciens and Modernes

6. Alexander Sinitsyn, CSc in History, Associate Professor; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor, Head of the RChAH cinema club; Russian State Institute of Performing Arts (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor

Muses about Socrates: The Ancient Greek Philosopher in Russian Lyric Poetry of the 18th-20th centuries

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

Search for the most desirable: The dialectic of desires of Plato and C.S. Lewis

8. Darya Seskutova; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Student

Dialogues of Plato and Bakhtin

Workshop 9: “Plato's footprints: New ideas and approaches”
23 June 202311:00 AM – 5:00 PM, break 2:00–2:30 PM · Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities, room 711
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Moderators: Elena Alymova, Igor Zaitsev

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

Sophistry as an alter ego of philosophy

2. Igor Zaitsev, CSc in Philosophy; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor

Whether virtue is free according to Plato

3. Georgii Botka; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Student

The Concept of Dialectic in the Doxography of Diogenes Laertius

4. Olga Vassiljeva; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), MA Student

Chaldean oracles as a memorial of Neoplatonism

5. Maria Shemyakina; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), master's student

The Dialectics of Plato's Narrative

6. Alena Kovaleva; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Student

Reception of Plato’s Dialogues in Jacques Lacan’s Seminars

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

Plato's myth of the cave and its receptions

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

Is Plato a Modern Moral Philosopher?

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

A Criticism of Mimetic Principle in the Art

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

The Tyranny of Xenophon and the Problem of Freedom

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

A Platonic View on the Production of Knowledge

12. Danila Savonenkov; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Student

The Fate (εἱμαρμένη) in the Philosophy of Plato

13. Pavel Shirokov; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Student

The Dramatic Character of Plato’s Socrates in the Existential Philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard Compared with the “Knight of Faith”

14. Ivan Shishlyannikov; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Postgraduate

The Therapeutic Potential of Plato’s Dialogues

15. Antonina Kuznecova; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Student

Dialectics of the political, or the nature of the state in Plato's philosophy

Round table “Ideologies in a Dialogue: Formal Models of Ideological Discussions in Hebrew Communities in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages”
23 June 202311:00 AM – 5:00 PM, break 2:00–2:30 PM · Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities, room 603
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Moderator: Igor Tantlevskij

1. Igor R. Tantlevskij, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Chairman of the Department of Jewish Culture

Ideological confrontation in judaism in the reflection of apocrypha and pseudoepigrapha discovered in the Qumran caves

2. Igor R. Tantlevskij, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Chairman of the Department of Jewish Culture

The birth of the miracle child as an allegory of the establishment of a gracious new world in the Thanksgiving Hymns of the Qumran Teacher of Righteousness and Virgil’s Eclogue IV: archetypal-typological parallelism

3. Igor R. Tantlevskij, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Chairman of the Department of Jewish Culture

Possible elements of worldview debates in the Jewish milieu in late antiquity using the example of The Book of Creation

4. Nadezhda Smirnova; National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia), Senior Lecturer; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Research Fellow

Elizaveta Igorevna Tantlevskaya; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), engineer-research

Experience in construction of mathematical models of religious and theological conflicts and ideological discussions on the example of reconstruction of historical events reflected in the qumran pesharim

5. Nadezhda Smirnova; National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia), Senior Lecturer; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Research Fellow

Elizaveta Igorevna Tantlevskaya; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), engineer-research

On multicriteria multistage models of confrontation and dialogue 

6. Igor R. Tantlevskij, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Chairman of the Department of Jewish Culture

Elizaveta Igorevna Tantlevskaya; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), engineer-research

Elements of qumranites' theological and philosophical epistemology in the context of jewish ideological polemics in the hellenistic period

7. Denis Kuzyutin, CSc in Physics and Mathematics, Associate Professor; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor

Igor R. Tantlevskij, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Chairman of the Department of Jewish Culture

Nadezhda Smirnova; National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia), Senior Lecturer; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Research Fellow

Formalized models of confrontation and mutual influence of judean sects in the period of early judaism

8. Dmitry Arkadjevich Fedchuk, DSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Institute of the philosophy of a human, Herzen University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Professor; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Assistant Professor

The basic results of the controversy between rationalists, traditionalists in Jewish philosophy of the XIII – XIV centuries and Christian scholasticism

9. Denis Kuzyutin, CSc in Physics and Mathematics, Associate Professor; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor

Dmitry Arkadjevich Fedchuk, DSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Institute of the philosophy of a human, Herzen University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Professor; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Assistant Professor

Nadezhda Smirnova; National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia), Senior Lecturer; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Research Fellow

On formal models of ideological confrontation between rationalists and traditionalists in the XIII-XIV centuries.

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1. Aleksander Galat; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities Publishing (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Director

Presentation of Publications by Russian Plato Society

31st International Conference “The Universe of Platonic Thought: Plato’s Dialectics: Method, Norm, Self-Knowledge”

Alexander Prokhorov, CSc in Philosophy; Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad, Russia), Researcher

"External Revelation" as a type of historical memory in the metaphysics of J. G. Schwarz*

I.G. Schwartz (1751-1784) was a professor of philosophy at the Moscow Imperial University. In fact, he was the only one who, in a completely professional and relevant philosophical language, expressed the philosophical worldview of the Moscow Freemasonry of Catherine's time, of which he was a prominent representative. Researchers admit that Freemasonry of that period had a significant impact on the formation of the spiritual culture of Russia in the 18th century and became a preparatory platform for Slavophilism and Russian Schellingism.Both in domestic and foreign historical and philosophical literature, the legacy of Schwartz is almost not studied. As a rule, the biography and work of the thinker attract the attention of researchers in the history of Russian Freemasonry and Rosicrucianism. In this regard, it seems quite justified to pay attention to the legacy of Schwartz, first published in the last decades. Its main part is notes and preparatory materials for lectures.This report discusses how one of the common places of the Masonic worldview - the metaphysics of light - in the work of Schwartz is associated, on the one hand, with his teaching about two types of revelation (internal and external), and on the other hand, with his idea of the historical process of transmission knowledge.

Keywords: historical memory, metaphysics of light, freemasonry, Russian philosophy, 18th century

Comparing the few texts that remained after J. G. Schwartz and are now published, one can be convinced that his philosophizing was based on a fairly straightforward Masonic-theosophical worldview. In general terms its essence is: the world was created by a single all-good Creator from light and darkness in accordance with a set of universal principles that were once sufficiently known to human. First, as a result of the Fall, and then because of the ongoing strife, true knowledge was gradually lost by mankind. However, throughout history there have been separate groups of initiates who have preserved the knowledge of the truth and pass it on from generation to generation, up to the present day. Separate reflections of this great knowledge became the cause of the emergence of well-known centers of ancient wisdom. There is also a certain “hermetic philosophy”, about which it is said that it “is a mother, it bases herself on the knowledge of nature, does not go further than to its knowledge, has knowledge of the elements, the first matter, the correction of metals...”. Hermetic philosophy is the very secret knowledge that the Rosicrucians keep, a special secret society, which is the core of another secret movement, Freemasonry.

Schwartz's social position did not allow him to openly preach Masonic views. In the early 1880s, when he became a professor of philosophy, he already had enough detractors ready to take advantage of the slightest pretext to expose the ambitious young Mason. The historical situation only contributed to this. The attitude of Catherine II towards the Freemasons rapidly deteriorated, especially after in 1782, when the Moscow Freemasons placed an advertisement in the newspaper that they submitted to the Grand Lodge of Sweden. In 1785, the Empress wrote a series of plays ridiculing Masons, and already in 1792, one of the main Masons of that time, Novikov, was arrested and thrown into the Shlisselburg fortress.

In this dangerous situation, Schwartz, in order to express his worldview, is trying to find such an argumentation that would be quite legitimate within the framework of the academic and social environment. This causes him to deviate from pure mysticism and alchemy towards philosophy. This leads Schwartz to a rather original arrangement of various ideas, the complex of which can already be considered as Schwartz's own philosophy, which determines his place in the history of Russian thought of the corresponding era.

November 5, 1782 Schwartz gives a lecture on two types of revelation, internal and external. With internal revelation, God enters the heart of a person in an inexplicable way and awakens him to a good life. External revelation is given through “experiences and sciences”, its purpose is to prepare a person for internal revelation. The need for such a revelation, coming from outside, is connected with the moral depravity of man. In various forms of external revelation, God leaves man a chance for correction and salvation. External revelation, in turn, has three forms, each of which is directed to a corresponding aspect of human nature. The first form refers to sensuality God demonstrates his wisdom through the phenomena of nature. This form of external revelation predominated in antiquity. This allowed people to learn the three most important arts: making fire, farming and writing. The second form refers to the mind these are the prophets whom the Lord revealed to the world to exhort mankind. And the third form has to do with the heart the incarnation of Jesus Christ.

A review of the three forms of external revelation shows that their maximum concentration falls on times very remote even for the 18th century. At the same time, Schwartz's position does not allow us to conclude that external revelation is no longer valid. It is quite distributed in the space of cultural and historical experience. And there is a way opened to a person a harmonious combination of education and spiritual improvement, the synthesis of which allows one to reconstruct that experience of external revelation, which is already a thing of the past, but dispersed as many authentic traces in the cultural heritage in works of art, in sacred texts, as well as in language, which for many centuries absorbed wisdom.

* The research was carried out at Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University with the support of the Russian Science Foundation, project No 22-18-00214, https://rscf.ru/en/project/22-18-00214/

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