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The Universe of Platonic Thought

XXXII Международная конференция  ·  32nd International Conference
20–21 июня 2024   Санкт-Петербург, Россия  ·  20–21 June 2024   St Petersburg, Russia

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20 June 2024
Plenary Session
20 June 202411:00 AM – 1:30 PM · Assembly Hall
Online participation
Moderator: Roman Svetlov

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; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Professor

Conference opening   ·   Recorded Video

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

Heidegger's Hermeneutics as Anti-Platonism: Plato's Cave Reinterpreted   ·   Recorded Video

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

The Paradox of Thinking and the Thinker in Plato's Parmenides   ·   Recorded Video

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

Nadezhda Pavlovna Volkova, CSc in Philosophy; Russian State University for Humanities (Moscow, Russia), Research fellow

Socrates and the Kinaidoi:Toward an interpretation of Plato's Gorgias 494e

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

Physics vs ethics: interpreting the two acting forces in Empedocles' poem and their reflection in Plato's "Politicus"   ·   Recorded Video

Workshop 1: “Science and Education in Ancient Platonism” (part 1)
20 June 20242:00 – 6:00 PM · Room 605
Online participation
Moderator: Alexey Bogomolov

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

Aspects of psychic illness in Plato

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

«Agnostos Theos» by E. Norden, negative theology in early Greek philosophy and one "controversial" fragment of Heraclitus

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

Education and laws as tools for achieving a happy life in Plato's Kallipolis and Magnesia

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

Critolaus from Phaselis: conjectures and interpretations

5. Valeria Udalova ; State budgetary professional educational institution "Center for Continuous Professional Medical Development of the Leningrad Region" (Vyborg, Russia), Lecturer

The idea of the essence of the body in Platonism and the practice of necromancy in Ancient Greece

6. Oybek Salimboy ugli Shavkiev; Samarkand State University named after Sharof Rashidov (Samarkand, Uzbekistan), Postgraduate

The problem of truth and Platonic philosophy

7. Alina Dmitrievna Sevastianova, CSc in Philosophy; St. Petersburg State University of Veterinary Medicine (Санкт-Петербург, Russia), Lecturer

A dialogue on justice: the treatment of animals in the philosophy of Aristotle and the Stoics

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

The concept of the individual in ancient philosophy as a perspective of the emergence of the category of personality

Workshop 2: “Platonic Tradition in the Science and Education of Late Antiquity”
20 June 20242:00 — 6:30 PM · Room 704
Online participation
Moderator: Aleksey Panteleev

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

The Practical Ethics of Middle Platonism: the theme of wealth in Plutarch's Vitae Lives    ·   Recorded Video

2. 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

Historical interpretation of the concept of "seminal logos" in Eusebius of Caesarea   ·   Recorded Video

3. Fedor Borisovitch Shcherbakov, CSc in Philosophy; Russian State Hydrometeorological University (Saint-Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor

Biblical typology as a work of the hermeneutic situation of consciousness   ·   Recorded Video

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

The genesis of the phenomenon Amor Dei in Neoplatonism and patristics.    ·   Recorded Video

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

Separation of the intellect from the soul in the doctrine of Iamblichus of Chalcis: the problem of interpretation   ·   Recorded Video

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

Description of Plato's philosophical school in the Syriac treatise "The Cause of the Foundation of the Schools"   ·   Recorded Video

Workshop 3: “Platonic Tradition in the Science and Education of the Middle Ages”
20 June 20242:00 — 5:30 PM · Room 701
Online participation
Moderator: Timur Shchukin

1. 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

"Sphragis isotypos:" On the Origins of the Rare Liturgical Formula

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

Why should monarchy not be hereditary? Byzantine political thought of the 13th c. as presented by George Pachymeres.

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

Nikephoros Blemmydes’ Teaching on Universals and creative Logos

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

Criticism of university Scholasticism in Medieval English mysticism of the 14th century

Workshop 4: “Platonic Tradition in Russian Philosophy”
20 June 20242:00 — 6:00 PM · Room 504
Online participation
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

Reception of Aristotle in Rus: Aristotle and the Judaizers

2. 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

Pseudo-Aristotle in ancient Russian literature: «The Secret of the Secret» (or «Aristotle’s Gate»)   ·   Recorded Video

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

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

The Ancient Sources of the Leichoudes Brothers' Manual on Epistolography for the Slavic Greek Latin Academy

4. Mikhail Alexeevich Kovalenko; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Student ; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), project executor of the scientific project support department

Aristotle in the context of ancient reminiscences of Maximus the Greek   ·   Recorded Video

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), Research Assistant; A.M.Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia), Research Assistant

The Course of Greek Epistolography by the Leichoudes Brothers: Manuscript Evidence, Temporal Context, and Circumstances of Its Creation

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

On the question of the significance of Aristotle’s philosophy in Russian intellectual culture of the XVII—XVIII cent.

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

Plato and Aristotle on the pages of the «Journal of the Ministry of Public Education»

8. Danil S. Popov, CSc in Philosophy; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Assistant Professor

Stoics as mentors and educators of youth on the pages of russian periodicals of the XIX century.

9. Evgenia Gennadievna Fonova, CSc in Philology; Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad, Russia), Associate Professor

Elena Zeidmanis, independent scholar

Plato's world of ideas in the reception of the Symbolists

10. Artyom Andreevich Gravin, CSc in Technics; Sociological Institute, Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Senior Researcher; 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

Platonic and Anti-Platonic Interpretation of Symbolism: L. A. Gogotishvili vs. S. S. Khoruzhiy   ·   Recorded Video

Workshop 5: “Platonic Tradition in Modern Science and Education”
20 June 20242:00 — 6:30 PM · Room 705
Online participation
Moderator: Daniil Dorofeev

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

Educational significance of Plato's image.

2. Shoira Tashmuradovna Kubaeva, DSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Samarkand State University named after Sharof Rashidov (Samarkand, Uzbekistan), Associate Professor

Development of the idea of ​​the game in the evolution of philosophical thought

3. Ekaterina Iurina, CSc in Philosophy; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Research Assistant

Plato's thread in the fabric of Hannah Arendt 

4. Svetlana Yurievna Zimina, CSc in Philosophy; Hillsdale College (Hillsdale, MI, USA, Russia), Researcher; Hillsdale College (Hillsdale, MI, USA, Russia), Researcher

The heritage of antiquity and classical education (based on the United States)

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

Wallerstein's concept of ethnization in the light of the Platonic tradition of education

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

The end of the world: the concept of the death of civilization from Plato to modern millenarism  

8. Daria Krutko; Peter the Great St Petersburg Polytechnic University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Postgraduate

Nikita Ladenkov; ANO HE «IBI named after Anatoliy Sobchak». (Saint-Petersburg, Russia), Senior Lecturer

A thought experiment and Utopia: from a rhetorical device to the modern research methods 

9. Theodor Dmitrievich Minin; Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Student

Fantasy as a Space of Philosophical Discussion and Experiment: on the Question of Plato's Influence on the Works of J. R. R. Tolkien

10. Konstantin Morozov; Lomonosov Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia), Postgraduate

Does the new natural law presuppose a platonic concept of the good?

11. Evgeny Evgenievich Grishchenko; Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad, Russia), Research Assistant

[User not registered], independent scholar

Plato's heritage in modern humanitarian education

12. Ekaterina Nikolaevna Samsonova, CSc in History; Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad, Russia), Associate Professor of the ONK "Institute of Education and Humanities"

Plato's pedagogical project and improving the content of education in modern Russia (on the example of the National Project "Education").

Round Table “Ancient Metaphors of Subject and Subjectivity, and Their Reception”
20 June 20243:00 — 5:00 PM · Room 703
Online participation
Moderators: Irina Protopopova, Ilya Guryanov

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

Metaphors of Subject and Subjectivity in Plato   ·   Recorded Video

2. 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

The collective subject of educational practice: Plato's concept

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; Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad, Russia), Senior Research Fellow

The subject in Renaissance philosophy as an epiphenomenon of solving of the problem of access to truth

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

Demonological Threads in the ‘Psellian Corpus’

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

The idea of a political subject in Aristotle's philosophy

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

Rhetoric of Justin the Philosopher and the early Christian concept of personality

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

“Consciousness as a whole”: the cognizing beginning in metaphysical personalism

21 June 2024
Workshop 1: “Science and Education in Ancient Platonism” (part 2)
21 June 202410:40 AM — 2:00 PM · Room 704
Online participation
Moderator: Igor Khmara

1. Elizaveta Pavlovna Timofeeva, CSc in History, Associate Professor; Manufacturing Academy (Saint-Petersburg, Russia), head teacher

Plato's Academy: emergence, structure, heritage.

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

The real and the visible in the construction of meanings in Socratic maieutic method 

3. 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; Peter the Great St Petersburg Polytechnic University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Postgraduate

The Real in the Ancient Tradition: From Physics to Metaphysics

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

Alexandrian philosophical school as the educational society 

5. 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

Platonic Science of intelligence as the goal of soul education: in the past, present and future

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

Αkrasia: the mask of ignorance or the impossibility of eudaimonia

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

Variants of the attitude of thinking to things in antiquity

Workshop 6: “Platonism in the History of Modern Science”
21 June 202410:40 AM — 4:00 PM · Room 705
Online participation
Moderator: Alexei Krioukov

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

Assimilation of Platonism by the new European scientific worldview in the XVIII–XX centuries

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

Reception of Plato's philosophy in Newton's scientific system

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

Narine Liparitovna Wiegel, DSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Rostov state medical university (Rostov-on-Don, Russia)

Platonic roots of science: from ideal forms to modern methodology

4. Lochin Erkinovich Tursunov, PhD, Associate Professor; Samarkand State University named after Sharof Rashidov (Samarkand, Uzbekistan), Deputy Dean

Plato and Aristotle: Dialogue on science and education through the ages in the context of Uzbekistan

5. Alexei Krioukov, CSc in Philosophy; Samarkand State University named after Sharof Rashidov (Samarkand, Uzbekistan), Professor

Vision as a tool. On the history of observation in Antiquity and in our time.

6. Gulnoza Sabirovna Sultanova, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Samarkand State University named after Sharof Rashidov (Samarkand, Uzbekistan), Professor

Comparative analysis of ancient natural science and modern science

7. Andrey Alexandrovich Chernykh; St. Petersburg State University of Economics (St Petersburg, Russia), Assistant Professor

Plato and Soviet Marxism

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

Dehumanization of mathematical knowledge: from Plato’s number to Musk’s number

9. Elena Vladislavovna Kuzmina, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Kazan Federal University (Kazan, Russia), Head of the Department of Religious Studies

Platonic foundations of modern cosmology

10. Mahsuda Nurmamatovna Normamatova, DSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; Samarkand State University named after Sharof Rashidov (Samarkand, Uzbekistan), Associate Professor

The idea of ​​virtualism in ancient philosophy

Workshop 7: “Platonic Epistemology, Dialectic and Logic in the History of Science”
21 June 202410:40 AM — 3:00 PM · Room 609
Online participation
Moderator: Sergey Nikonenko

1. 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"

Transcendental Metaphysics of Plato. Plato's World of Forms and Ontology of Properties

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

Comments to Cratilus (385e) on different ways of naming in the scope of contemporary linguistic philosophy

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

Argumentorics of Aristotle and S.I. Povarnin: theoretical, epistemological and practical parallels.

4. Irina Batrakova, CSc in Philosophy, Associate Professor; FGBU NCCT named after S. N. Golikov FMBA Russia (Saint Petersburg , Russia), Associate Professor

Plato’s concept of idea in Kant’s teaching on science

5. Victor Alexandrovich Svetlov, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Emperor Alexander I St. Petersburg state transport university (Санкт-Петербург, Russia), Professor

Tertium non datur, or will there be a naval battle tomorrow?

6. 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

The theory of ideas in the philosophy of Plato and Kant

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

The universum of possible statements and its boundaries in the philosophy of Parmenides

8. 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

Nicephorus Gregoras on the nature of language: the grammar theory and the method of theology in the Hesychastic controversy of the 50s of the XIV century

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

Socrates' Elenchos as the metaphilosophy of pre-Socratic thought?

10. Ruslan Rafil'evich Abdrafikov; ANO PE Ural College of Economics and Law (Ekaterinburg, Russia), Lecturer

Plato's misunderstood rationalism - interval approach: Plato VS Aristotle

Workshop 8: “Plato and Platonism in the History of Fine Arts”
21 June 20241:30 — 5:00 PM · Room 703
Online participation
Moderator: Alexander Sinitsyn

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

How Plato "set the stage" for education by capitalizing on traditions of theater.

2. Anastasia Shpilenko; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Student

Visual representation of philosopher in early Christian art in the III-V centuries

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

Platonic texts as the basis of musical works

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

Historical and cultural remarks on reminiscences of Socrates in A. S. Kushner’s verse

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

Theater of Ideas (Plato's dialogues in A. Vasiliev's theatrical experiments)

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

Platonic motifs in E. Marvell's poem "The Garden" and their reminiscences in N. Zabolotsky's poem "Crowning with Fruits"

7. Alexandra Ekrogulskaya; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Postgraduate

Søren Kierkegaard and Plato: a brief history of translations of Plato's texts into Danish in 1830–1859

Workshop 9: “New Approaches to Platonic Studies”
21 June 20241:30 — 5:00 PM · Room 403
Online participation
Moderators: Elena Alymova, Arsenij Makhnov

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

Oblivion of "the order of the father" in Plato's cosmology

2. Evgenii Leonidovich Shkliar; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Student

The Revival of the Ancient Greek language in memes

3. Ivan Ezhov; SPbU Institute of philosophy (Saint-Petersburg, Russia), Student

The conception of phronesis as a premise of hermeneutics and humanitarian rationality

4. Anastasiya Vladimirovna Korosteleva; South Ural State University (Chelyabinsk, Russia), Student

Пαιδεία: the cornerstone of the Platonic state

5. Tatiana Pavlovna Topchy; Kozma Minin Nizhny Novgorod State Pedagogical University — Minin University (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia), Student

Paideia - as a method of overcoming loss

6. Matvey Vladimirovich Smolin; SPbU Institute of philosophy (Saint-Petersburg, Russia), Student

The metaphor of ascent/descent as a description of the philosophical Path according to Plato

7. Pavel Timofeevich Zaguzin; Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad, Russia), Assistant Professor, independent scholar

“Existential motives in the works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca using the example of “Moral Letters to Lucillius”.

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

Plato's Philosophy as a necessary step in the world-historical process of the formation of the spirit

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

The concept "nous" and origins of theological tradition

10. Aleksandra Dmitrievna Zarubina; Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad, Russia), Student

The concept of spiritual slavery in the ancient tradition and its actualization in modern education

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

Plato's method of cognition as foundation of scientific method and its critics by Henri Bergson

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

On the philosophical character of Socrates' daimonion

13. Alena Sivkova; State budgetary professional educational institution "Center for Continuous Professional Medical Development of the Leningrad Region" (Vyborg, Russia), Student

Plato's Eros in the doctrine of the soul by Marsilio Ficino

Round Table “Hermeneutics of a Classiccal Text as a Means of a Philosophical Self-Identification”
21 June 20242:00 — 5:00 PM · Room 504 · Round Table in the “Flipped Classroom” Format
Online participation
Moderators: Roman Svetlov, 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; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Professor

Platonist on obverse and reverse: what does the bull mean on Julian’s coins?   ·   Recorded Video

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

Plato's trace. Dialectical mysticism in hermeneutic perspective   ·   Recorded Video

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

Medieval Platonism: statement of the research question   ·   Recorded Video

4. Tycho Davydov, CSc in Philology; Lomonosov Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia), Senior Lecturer; Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad, Russia), Junior Researcher

Σωκράτης ὡς πρωτογραμματικός (Plat. Crat.): On Pronunciation of Greek ρ   ·   Recorded Video

5. Alexander Viktorovich Karpuk; Saint Petersburg Theological Academy (Saint Petersburg, Russia), master's student

Between Plato and Christ: on the problem of Christian Platonism   ·   Recorded Video

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; Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad, Russia), Senior Research Fellow

The Hermeneutics of Plato's Philosophy in Marsilio Ficino's "Epistolae": Unpacking the Genre Peculiarities   ·   Recorded Video

7. Artyom Andreevich Gravin, CSc in Technics; Sociological Institute, Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Senior Researcher; 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

Tycho Davydov, CSc in Philology; Lomonosov Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia), Senior Lecturer; Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad, Russia), Junior Researcher

The Manifestation of the Unmanifest: Toward a Principle of A. F. Losev’s Dialectic   ·   Recorded Video

8. 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

How did Plato became "divine"? Some notes on Plato's mentions by Plotinus   ·   Recorded Video

Round Table “Jewish Spiritual Tradition and the Preservation of Identity: From the Biblical Era to Modern Russia”
21 June 20243:00 — 5:00 PM · Room 703
Moderator: Igor Tantlevskij

1. Igor Romanovich Tantlevskij, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Saint Petersburg State University, Institute of Theology (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Head of Chair, Professor

Eschatological Elements in Eclogue IV of Virgil’s “Bucolics” and Philodemus of Gadara

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

Jewish Identity and Greek Paideia: The Case of Philo of Alexandria

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

Igor Romanovich Tantlevskij, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Saint Petersburg State University, Institute of Theology (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Head of Chair, Professor

Nadezhda Smirnova; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Researcher

A network model of the relations between religious movements and authority in Judea

4. Igor Romanovich Tantlevskij, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Saint Petersburg State University, Institute of Theology (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Head of Chair, Professor

On the Question of Some Biblical Designations of “Proto-Israelites” and Ancient Israelites  

5. Igor Romanovich Tantlevskij, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Saint Petersburg State University, Institute of Theology (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Head of Chair, Professor

On the Question of Identification and Implicit Self-identification of the Author of the Book of Qoheleth (Ecclesiastes) 

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

A new approach to the problem of authorship of Сorpus Areopagiticum

7. Eugene Afonasin, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; none (Kaliningrad, Russia), Professor

Bruno and prisci theologi. Some observation on didactic value of “ancient wisdom” in pre-modern science

8. Anna Tur, CSc in Physics and Mathematics; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Associate Professor

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Igor Romanovich Tantlevskij, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Saint Petersburg State University, Institute of Theology (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Head of Chair, Professor

Cooperative differential games on hypergraphs

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

Elements of Neoplatonism in the Philosophical Hermeneutics of Creation by Moses Maimonides and Meister Eckhart

Closing Plenary Session
21 June 20245:15 — 7:00 PM · Assembly Hall
Online participation

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; Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Professor

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

Athena and Clio: on the Substance and Fortune of Ancient Philosophy and History

2. Dmitry Shmonin, DSc in Philosophy, Professor; Saint Petersburg State University, Institute of Theology (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Director

“Presentation of Common and Necessarily Existent:” Roman Svetlov and the Collection in Honour of his 60th Anniversary

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

Conference Closing

32nd International Conference “The Universe of Platonic Thought: Plato’s Heritage in the History of Science and Education”

Anastasia Malyavksy, Independent scholar

Plato's theory of the structure of the soul and its influence on the concept of the psychic apparatus: a dialogue between ancient and modern thought

The lecture examines the influence of Plato's ideas about the structure of the soul on the development of concepts of the psychic apparatus in 20th-century psychology. Central is Sigmund Freud's discovery of the unconscious realm of drives and desires - the "Id", which reveals a striking parallel with the "appetitive" part of the soul according to Plato. Freud's "Superego" performs a normative function analogous to the "rational" part of Plato's conception, while the "Ego" plays a mediating role, reminiscent of the "spirited" component. After Freud, development proceeded along divergent paths: some scholars followed the "tripartite" model, while others returned to the idea of the unity of the psyche. However, contemporary empirical data testifies to the multilevel organization of the psychic, encompassing conscious and unconscious processes. Drawing on Carl Jung's metaphor of the alchemical "Great Work" allows us to synthesize these opposing positions. The psyche develops through a process of successive transcendence, from unconscious drives through the formation of a rational "Self" to the highest level - the ability for free choice and self-knowledge. Thus, Platonic ideas open up perspectives for integrating various traditions into a unified conceptual model of multilevel psychic organization. Reactivating Plato's legacy provides an opportunity to overcome the divide between the opposing approaches in the history of psychology.

Keywords: Plato, Freud, Jung, Soul, Structure of the Psyche, Unconscious, Multilevel Organization, Transcendence

One of the most influential theories in 20th-century psychology was Sigmund Freud's structural model of the psyche, which mirrored Plato's conception of the soul. Like Plato, Freud viewed the psyche as comprising multiple components with distinct functions and principles.

Plato outlined the soul as consisting of three parts: the "appetitive" part governing bodily desires, the "spirited" part governing willpower and emotions, and the "rational" part grasping truth and morality. This tripartite division parallels Freud's Id, Ego, and Superego. The Id aligns with Plato's appetitive part – the unconscious realm of instinctual drives. The Superego performs a regulatory function akin to Plato's rational part. The Ego mediates between the Id and Superego's demands, echoing Plato's volitional component. However, distinctions exist, as Plato's spirited part had normative aspects that Freud solely assigned to the Superego.

Plato's idea of an internally divided, multi-component soul was innovative for ancient philosophy. Aristotle acknowledged "parts" as capacities but viewed the soul as a unified essence. This notion of the indivisible soul/psyche prevailed through the Middle Ages and the Modern era. Descartes reduced the soul solely to the realm of reason, reducing it to the principle of the "thinking thing" (res cogitans).

What was innovative was that Freud not only revived Plato's ideas about the internal division of the psyche but was the first to explicitly identify the realm of the unconscious with its drives, having a bodily, physiological source, conflicts, and the pleasure principle, calling it the "Id". Thus, Freud significantly supplemented Plato's scheme and paved the way for overcoming Descartes' rigid mind-body dualism.

After Freud, the development of concepts about the structure of the psyche proceeded along different paths. Some conceptions followed Plato and Freud's "tripartite" model (Erik Erikson's epigenetic theory of personality development through crises of "Ego identity"; Eric Berne's triad of Child-Adult-Parent). Others, on the contrary, leaned once again towards the idea of the unity of the psyche as a multiplicity of processes (the Gestalt psychology of Max Wertheimer, the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl, and the humanistic psychology of Abraham Maslow).

The debate about the unified/multi-component nature of the psyche remains relevant in contemporary science. Empirical data from neuroscience, evolutionary psychology, and consciousness studies testify both to the unity of mental phenomena and to the presence of different subsystems and levels of organization within the psyche.

Drawing on Carl Jung's metaphor of the alchemical "Great Work" allows us to outline a path for synthesizing and resolving this conceptual opposition. Jung was the first to anticipate the key influence of the social on the formation of the psyche, and he believed that a person's description of the surrounding world reflects their inner psychic state. Accordingly, alchemical images and symbols can be viewed as projections of inner psychic processes and levels of the psyche. Thus, the metaphor of alchemy proves fitting for modeling the structural organization of the human psyche.

Just as the combination of prime matter with individual elements gives rise to the philosopher's stone, so too does the initially unified psyche (Prima Materia) develop through successive levels of transcendence, acquiring an ever more complex internal structure.

At the first level (nigredo), the realm of unconscious drives emerges, corresponding to the appetitive part of Plato's soul. At this stage, psychic processes cannot be reduced to chemical-biological processes, so the emergence of the psyche is the first level of transcendence, occurring through evolution.

Next (albedo and citrinitas), reason and Self-conception form through social interaction (per Rubinstein and Luria) and cognitive development (partially mirroring Plato's spirited/rational parts). Self-consciousness transcends psychic processes through interaction with others' psyches.

The "social" aspects of inner psychic life (inner conflict, inner dialogue, etc.) also testify to the interaction with different "personae" within consciousness. Resolving inner conflict is only possible by making a choice, and thus presupposes the presence of an "I-that-makes-choices".

Although the "I-that-makes-choices" is limited by biological, cognitive, and social factors, it cannot be determined by them. It also cannot be reduced simply to consciousness, since in order to choose between "parts of consciousness", one must "rise above them". Thus, at the third level (rubedo), through reflection and self-knowledge, one attains "Free Will", the normative ability to make choices between different impulses - akin to the rational part in Plato. Overall, the psyche manifests as a unified, multilevel formation, developing along the path of individuation according to C.G. Jung.

Thus, Plato's ideas about the soul's internal structure find potential in contemporary multilevel psyche models encompassing conscious/unconscious processes. Reactivating these ancient notions opens perspectives for integrating divergent psychological traditions into a unified conceptual framework.

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