Symposium: “The Philosophy of Seth Benardete”

Wolff Conference Room, Graduate Faculty Building,
The New School University, 65 Fifth Avenue, New York City

Program

Thursday, December 5

Ronna Burger, Tulane University
“The Thumotic and the Erotic Soul: Seth Benardete on Platonic Psychology”

Richard Velkley, Catholic University of America
“Being and Politics: Seth Benardete on Aristotle’s Metaphysics

Michael Davis, Sarah Lawrence College
“The Spirit of Ideas: Benardete’s Second Sailing”

Friday, December 6

Agnes Heller, New School University
“Discourse and Action”

Matthew Linck, New School University
“The Night and Day of Philosophy”

Katie Terezakis, New School University
“Distant Justice: Benardete’s Route through Parmenides’ Poem”

Claudia Baracchi, New School University
“On the Good”

Sponsored by the Philosophy Department of the New School University Graduate Faculty