Should we be indifferent to beauty? Discover Stoic views on beauty, how to appreciate beauty, and how beauty can help us cultivate virtue.
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Schedule (EDT): (Timings and running order subject to change):
10:00 Welcome
10:10 Recitation: Hymn to Zeus by Cleanthes
10:30 The Stoic Theory of Beauty w/ Aistė Čelkytė
11:00 Did the Stoics get their Theory of Beauty Wrong? w/ Massimo Pigliucci
11:30 Beauty: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Applications w/ David Fideler
12:00 Break
12:10 Splendid and Beautiful: The Inspirational Power of Moral Beauty w/ Brittany Polat
12:50 Peter Paul Rubens and the First Modern Revival of Stoicism w/ John Sellars
13:20 Break
13:30 Selecting for Beauty: Some Precepts for a Stoic w/ Jennifer Baker
14:00 Things of Beauty w/ Greg Sadler
14:30 Dancing with the Stoics w/ Nancy Sherman
15:00 Break
15:20 KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Why Rationality Needs Beauty w/ John Vervaeke
16:20 Musical recital: w/ Sharon Lebell
16:40 Closing remarks
17:00 Close
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