Our new Plato course is now officially open for enrolment! Join our summer school today and rethink what you thought you knew about beauty.
We tend to think of beauty today as primarily if not exclusively aesthetic.
In fact, we consider beauty as subjective, as a matter of personal taste, in the eye of the beholder. But for Plato beauty is ontological and integral to his entire philosophy. Without beauty we cannot see the Idea of the Good — and vice versa. Thus, for Plato beauty is also intimately related to virtue and the Good Life.
We invite you to deepen your understanding of beauty, to remember in the sense of anamnesis what beauty in a primal sense means so as to learn how to find beauty in your life. Thomas hat put together a wonderful course for us on beauty. This is the link to enrol.
We have seen a lot of interest in this course so we hope that you can enrol soon to make sure you get a spot in the seminars.
A careful reading of Plato’s work reveals that beauty plays a crucial role in Plato's metaphysics, ontology, epistemology, and ethics. In this lecture series we will read six Platonic dialogues oriented around the topic of The Beautiful. So together we will read sections from Greater Hippias, Symposium, Phaedrus, Meno, Cratylus, and Parmenides.
There will be a selection of short readings for each session. (And a selection of longer readings for those who have the time).
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