“Pain and Punishment in Ancient Thought”
17th Annual Meeting of the Collegium Politicum
Barcelona, 26 May-27 May 2017
26th May (Facultat de Filosofia, Universitat de Barcelona
Aula: Seminari de Filosofia)
9:00 Welcome
9:30 Inaugural Lecture
Esther Giménez-Salinas (Barcelona), Director of the Chair of Social and Restorative Justice, Pere Tarrés-Ramon Llull University
From punishment to restorative justice: yesterday and today
10:30 Lecture 1
Francisco Lisi (Madrid)
Guilt and punishment in Plato’s Laws
11:15 Coffee Break
11:45 Lecture 2
Jakub Jinek (Praha)
Pleasure and pain in Plato’s Laws and the penal code of Magnesia
12:30 Lecture 3
Maurizio Migliori (Macerata)
Multifocal approach: la polivalenza valoriale e funzionale della pena nei dialoghi di Platone
13:15 Lecture 4
Giovanni Giorgini (Bologna)
Protagoras on Punishment
14:00 Lunch
15:30 Lecture 5
Veronika Konrádová (Ústí)
The concept of punishment in Plato’s eschatological myths
16:15 Lecture 6
Bernat Torres & Xavier Escribano (Barcelona)
The experience of pain in Plato’s thought. A phenomenological approach from the Philebus
17:00 Coffee break
17:30 Lecture 7
Maria Liatsi (Ioannina)
Unfulfilled desires: Suffering from the limits of freedom
18:15 Lecture 8
Joan González Guardiola (Palma de Mallorca)
Money as debt and measure of punishment vs. money as commodity: Mesopotamia vs. Ancient Greece
19:00 General Assembly of the Collegium Politicum
20:30 Dinner
27th May
(Facultat d’Humanitats, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
Aula A501)
9:30 Lecture 9
Elisa Della Calce (Torino)
Triste exemplum sed in posterum salubre (VIII, 7, 17): la “punizione” nelle Storie liviane tra dolore, dissenso e valore esemplare
10:15 Lecture 10
Manuel Knoll (Istambul)
Plato and Aristotle on the Role of Pleasure, Pain, and Punishment in Education
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 Lecture 11
Arianna Fermani (Macerata)
Why it is not worth to be unpunished (ἀκόλαστοι)? Some reflections on Pain and Punishment in Aristotle
12:15 Lecture 12
Simon Weber (Bonn)
Aristotle’s Defence of Ostracism
13:00 Lecture 13
Elena Irrera (Bologna/Madrid)
Voluntary agency, infliction of suffering and corrective behaviour in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
13:45 Lunch
