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1: Platonism and Neoplatonism Unit |
Abstract for Online Program Book (maximum 150 words)
The Platonic tradition has, throughout history, offered a radically alternative understanding of the relationship between humans and nature and between humans and non-human animals. This panel invites papers that explore historical and contemporary instances of the Platonic conceptualization of nature. We encourage contributions that explore this tradition's contemporary application for reconceptualizing our collective understanding of nature. Exploration of the relationship between Platonic realism across multiple religious traditions and constructive proposals for inter-religious ecologies are encouraged. Papers may draw upon sources from antiquity to the present, ranging from philosophical, theological, poetic, and artistic. We also highly encourage the submission of papers relating to the Platonic and Neoplatonic traditions generally, in both historical and constructive contexts. Papers on the metaphysics of participation are particularly encouraged.
Papers
- Origen’s Account of Paideia in His Creation Cosmology and its Contemporary Ecological Merit
- Philosophers or Angels? How the True Philosopher Participates in the Divine, according to Later Neoplatonists.