Dear all, The Moral Sciences Club's next meeting will be held on Tuesday 14th March. We are delighted to welcome Professor Peter Adamson (LMU), who will be giving a talk entitled 'Dialectic in Alexander of Aphrodisias' Treatises on Fate and Providence'. Here is the abstract:
The late ancient Aristotelian, Alexander of Aphrodisias, is known especially for his commentaries on Aristotle. He also wrote free-standing treatises on several topics, however, including the two thematically linked works On Fate and On Providence (the former survives in Greek, the latter only in a medieval Arabic translation). In this paper, I will argue that Alexander is deliberately arguing dialectically in these works. Rather than arguing from Aristotelian first principles, he seeks show that his (supposedly) Aristotelian account should appeal to a fair-minded neutral party more than the Stoic determinist theory he rejects. I will also discuss the differences in approach and intention between the two texts. The meeting will be held at 2:30 until 4:15, in the Barbara White Room at Newnham College, and will be followed by tea and coffee. For those who have not yet paid, there is a yearly membership fee of £7.50 for students and £15 for others, or a one-off fee of £3 (£2 for students). These can be purchased online at: http://onlinesales.admin. cam.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=1&catid=75&prodvarid=87 -- Matt Dougherty, James Hutton, and Li Li Tan Secretaries of the Moral Sciences Club Faculty of Philosophy University of Cambridge [email protected] http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/seminars-phil/seminars-msc _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
