Session IIIA: Student Roundtable - Love and Justice in Politics
Location
Dover Library Large Conference Room
Start Date
21-3-2025 5:30 PM
End Date
21-3-2025 6:30 PM
Description
This is a roundtable based on some discussions and readings from the Ancient and Medieval Political Philosophy course. In particular, we have read Plato's Apology, parts of The Republic, and the Symposium and some of Aristotle's Ethics. In this course, we have investigated the tension between the state (with its ever present need to maintain its authority, its idea of justice, and the "gods of the city") and philosophy, which is the search for truth. In so doing, we have explored the tension between the demands of justice and love or erotic longings. Is
Session IIIA: Student Roundtable - Love and Justice in Politics
Dover Library Large Conference Room
This is a roundtable based on some discussions and readings from the Ancient and Medieval Political Philosophy course. In particular, we have read Plato's Apology, parts of The Republic, and the Symposium and some of Aristotle's Ethics. In this course, we have investigated the tension between the state (with its ever present need to maintain its authority, its idea of justice, and the "gods of the city") and philosophy, which is the search for truth. In so doing, we have explored the tension between the demands of justice and love or erotic longings. Is