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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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Afonasin Eugene, 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

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

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

Alymova Elena, 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

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

How Plato understood space

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Batrakova Irina, 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.

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

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

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

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

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

The Concept of Dialectic in the Doxography of Diogenes Laertius

Bulanenko Maxim, 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

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Chernoglazov Dmitri, 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.

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

Poetics of aporias

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Danilkina Natalia, 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

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

Plato's Dialectic as a method of Consciousness Conversion

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

Plato studies in Königsberg

Dmitrov Igor; 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

Dorofeev Daniil, 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

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

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

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

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

Evlampiev Igor, 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

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Fedchuk Dmitry Arkadjevich, 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

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

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

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

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

Volkova Nadezhda, 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

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

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

Gravin Artyom, 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

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

Dialectical method in search of happiness: Pyrrho and Aristotle

Guryanov Ilya, 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

Guryanov Ilya, 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

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Iakimenko Artem, 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

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Karavaeva Svetlana, 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

Katrechko Sergey, 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»

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

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

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

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

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

Lacan reads Plato

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

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

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

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

Kupriyanov Victor, 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 

Kurbatov Anatoly; 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)

Kurdybaylo Dmitry, 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

Kurdybaylo Dmitry, 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

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

Meister Eckhart in the horizon of the Neoplatonic Tradition

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

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

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

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

Smirnova Nadezhda; 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

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

Fedchuk Dmitry Arkadjevich, 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

Smirnova Nadezhda; 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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Likhter Pavel, CSc in Law, Associate Professor; Penza State University (Penza, Russia), Associate Professor

Antique dialectics in legal science

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

Is Plato a Modern Moral Philosopher?

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Makarova Nadezhda; 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”

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

The Tyranny of Xenophon and the Problem of Freedom

Makovetsky Eugene A., 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

Melnikov Sergey, 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.

Mettini Emiliano, 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 

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

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

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

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

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

A. N. Egunov and the Literature of Western Europe

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

The Necessity of Utopia: Platonic Dialectics and Marxist Production

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

Dispute about the subject: Plato vs. Antisthenes

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

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

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

The Multiform Dialectic of Plato and Its Eleatic Roots

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

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

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

Dialectic of the Meaning of Name in the Cratylus

Nogovitsin Oleg, 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

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Panteleev Aleksey, 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

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

A Platonic View on the Production of Knowledge

Popov Danil, 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).

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

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

Prikhodko Maxim, 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

Prokhorov Alexander, 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

Protopopov Ivan, 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

Protopopova Irina, 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

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

Palestine - a place of synthesis of philosophical ideas and views

Rezyuk Vadim; 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

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

The cathartic potential of elenchos in Plato

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

Plato among Anciens and Modernes

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

The Fate (εἱμαρμένη) in the Philosophy of Plato

Segalerba Gianluigi, PhD, Independent scholar

Individuals, Ideas and Dialectic

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

Irony and Dialectic in Plato's Dialogues

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

Dialogues of Plato and Bakhtin

Shcherbakov Fedor, 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

Shchukin Timur; 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

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

The Dialectics of Plato's Narrative

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

Dialectics of the ideal body

Shirokov Pavel; 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”

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

The Therapeutic Potential of Plato’s Dialogues

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

Ancient postmodern

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

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

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

Reception of Messianic ideas in Russia.

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

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

On multicriteria multistage models of confrontation and dialogue 

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

Tantlevskaya Elizaveta Igorevna; 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

Sobolnikova Elena, 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"

Sorokina Marina; 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

Streltsov Alexey, 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

Svetlov Roman, 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

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Tantlevskij Igor R., 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

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

Eschatology in the pseudepigrapha from Qumran

Tantlevskij Igor R., 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

Tantlevskij Igor R., 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

Tantlevskij Igor R., 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

Tantlevskij Igor R., 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 

Tantlevskij Igor R., 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]

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

Tantlevskaya Elizaveta Igorevna; 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

Tikhonov Andrey, 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?

Tonkovidova Anna; 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

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

Chaldean oracles as a memorial of Neoplatonism

Voevoda Daria; 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

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

Why does Leo Strauss return us to Plato?

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

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

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

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

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

Spatial-temporal features of the ideal state of Plato.

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

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

Chaldean oracles as a memorial of Neoplatonism

Neoplatonism is a strand of Platonic philosophy that emerged in the 3rd century AD against the background of Hellenistic philosophy and religion, Pythagorean influences, also with influences of esoterical systems like gnosticism and hermetism. Among the common ideas it does maintain is that of monism, the doctrine that all of reality can be derived from a single principle, "the One”.  In late neoplatonism, the spiritual universe is regarded as a series of emanations from the One.  From the One emanated the Divine Mind (Nous) and in turn from the Divine Mind emanated the World Soul (Psyche). Neoplatonists insisted that the One is absolutely transcendent and in the emanations nothing of the higher was lost or transmitted to the lower, which remained unchanged by the lower emanations. Neoplatonists also insisted that magical work, called theurgy, helps human soul to reach the One.  Theurgy means "divine working". The first recorded use of the term is found in the mid-second-century neoplatonist work the Сhaldean Oracles, corpus of texts which became sacred for neoplatonic mysticism and concentrated the ideas of neoplatonism. 

Keywords: Neoplatonism, Chaldean oracles, theurgy, Hekate, World Soul, Proclus

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