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Colloquium Geschiedenis van de Filosofie
7 November 2019 @ 15:00 - 17:00
“The principle of ‘doing-one’s-own’ in the Platonic-Stoic tradition”
Dr. Tomohiko Kondo
University of Hokkaido/Utrecht University
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Date: Thursday 7 November, 15:00-17:00 uur
Plaats: Drift 6, room 0.07, Utrecht
Abstract:
In Book IV of Plato’s Republic, the concept of justice is explicated through the principle of ‘doing one’s own’ (ta hautou prattein), whose historical background and philosophical implications have been the subject of much scholarly debate. In my talk, however, I shall not discuss its Platonic original but pursue some of its later adaptations in the Platonic-Stoic tradition in antiquity. I shall begin by reconstructing Chrysippus’ appropriative reading of Plato’s Republic, by which he applied the Platonic principle of ‘doing one’s own’ to the Stoic concept of freedom (eleutheria). I shall then consider two different repercussions that this Chrysippean adaptation has arguably evoked: one from Panaetius (as developed in Cicero’s De officiis) and another from the two Neoplatonists, Plotinus and Proclus. Although their adaptations may at first seem to be based on arbitrary readings of Plato’s text, it will be argued that they revolved around one of the central issues raised by Plato, that is, the issue of how ideal human agency can externally manifest itself in many different ways while maintaining its unity and consistency.
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