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9:00 AM - 15th Annual Academic Festival

10:00 AM - Kaplan Test Prep & Admissions Information Table

5:00 PM - Burlington, VT happy hour

7:00 PM - 5/01 Boston

7:00 PM - 5/01 Chicago

7:00 PM - 5/01 New York City

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15th Annual Academic Festival
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All events for May 17, 2013

10:00 AM - Periclean Scholar Awards Ceremony & Honors Forum Senior Recognition

12:30 PM - Senior Varsity Athlete Recognition Luncheon

2:00 PM - Phi Beta Kappa Induction Ceremony

3:30 PM - Class of 2013 Parents Fund Ceremony

4:30 PM - President's Reception

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Periclean Scholar Awards Ceremony & Honors Forum Senior Recognition
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Sharing Pleasures and Pains in Plato's Republic

Location: Ladd Hall: 307

Date: 11/11/2011

Time: 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Speaker: Prof. Catherine McKeen

Description:
Citizens of the best city of Plato’s Republic will share pleasures and pains in common, we are told in Book V. The sharing of pleasures and pains is such that "all citizens, insofar as is possible, rejoice and are pained at the same gains and losses"(462b.) This "commonality of pleasures and pains," furthermore, indicates the high degree of civic unity possessed by the best city (the kallipolis.)

But there are several puzzling features regarding the commonality of pleasures and pains in the kallipolis. For one, the kallipolis is already unified by occupational specialization and by substantial agreement among citizens regarding their governance. What additional unifying force can the sharing of pleasures and pains provide? For two, Plato has been intent throughout the Republic to carefully manage the destabilizing effects of various pleasures and pains. So how is the sharing of pleasures and pains conceived as a good-making feature of the kallipolis? And finally, different character types in the kallipolis have radically different capacities for knowledge and virtue. Can such divergent types really share pleasures and pains in any significant way?

This presentation aims to try to work through some of these puzzles about the commonality of pleasures and pains in the Republic.

Sponsor:
Dept. of Philosophy & Religion

Contact:
Ruby Grande
518-580-5400

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