Instytut Filologii Klasycznej UAM serdecznie zaprasza na wykład „Living in the Dao without logos: Lao Tzu and Plato/Plotinus”, który zostanie wygłoszony online przez Kevina Corrigana (Emory University) 20 maja o godzinie 19:00.
Wykład zainauguruje serię ośmiu wykładów online zatytułowanych: The Elusive Shape of the Platonic Tradition (ID-UB). Wśród pozostałych prelegentów znajdą się John Vervaeke (University of Toronto), Jeffrey Hipolito (Owen Barfield Society), David C. Schindler (Catholic University of America), Gareth Polmeer (Royal College of Art), Paul Bishop (University of Glasgow), Pablo Irizar (Newman Theological College, Edmonton) i Douglas Hedley (University of Cambridge).
Abstrakt:
Against persistent impressions, even among scholars, that the Tao is inactive, passive, and that Plato or Plotinus’ One-Good, together with Aristotle’s Unmoved Mover, is an automatic, deterministic first principle, this lecture argues that the Tao is the transcendent but also immanent principle that positively grounds ordinary life and that Lao Tzu’s principles of non-action and spontaneity should not be understood in a privative way. Taoism anticipates in striking ways not only Heraclitus in the early Western tradition but also lines of thought about divine and human making or creating in Plato (429?–347 BCE), Aristotle (384-322 BCE), and finally Plotinus (204-270 CE) that have long proved to be contentious and that tend to be criticized by Christian thinkers as very different from ‘creation’ in the Christian tradition. However, these lines of thinking or representation resonate strongly with Taoist thought and provide illuminating insights into both Eastern and Western thinking, even if we cannot pinpoint definite points of contact.
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