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Conference on “The Thought of Seth Benardete”

Howard University
April 15-16, 2005



Participants — Robert Berman, John Blanchard, Ronna Burger, Michael Davis, Patrick Goodin, Holly Haynes, Drew Keller, Martin Sitte, Olivia Delgado de Torres, Richard Velkley, and Marc Witkin — will present papers inspired by Benardete’s work, on Plato, Aristotle, the Bible, Virgil, Herodotus, Parmenides and classical scholarship.


Program

Friday, April 15, 2005

5:00-6:00 Patrick Goodin – “Physis and Philosophy: on Physics I.1”

6:15-8:00 Dinner

8:00-9:00  Drew Keller – “The Quarrel Between Benardete and Classics: What Seth Might Have Taught a Field”


Saturday, April 16, 2005

10:30-11:30 Marc Witkin – “Nomos Basileus: Benardete’s ‘Second Thoughts’ on Herodotus”

11:30-12:30 Holly Haynes – “The Truth is Out There in the Aeneid

12:30-1:30 Lunch

1:30-2:30 John Blanchard – “Parmenides’ Truth”

2:30-3:30 Olivia Delgado de Torres – “Parmenides: The Envelope of Socrates’ Second Sailing”

3:30-4:30 Michael Davis – “Making Something from Nothing: on Plato’s Hipparchus

4:30-5:30 Robert Berman – “The Socratic Principle and the Problem of Punishment”

5:30-6:30 Ronna Burger – “Definitional Law in the Bible”

6:30 Dinner


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