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• Catherine McKeen, "Authoritarian Rule in Plato's Statesman"

  Wed, May 19

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  May 19, 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM EDT

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  Catherine will argue that the view of political power in the Statesman is authoritarian in that (1) the expert statesman is invested with total control over all aspects of life, (2) he is justified in using a variety of harsh methods of enforcement, and (3) he is not accountable to the rule of law.

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• Emily Kress, "What Tools do you Need to Build an Animal? Heat and Coldness in Aristotle’s Generation of Animals"

  Wed, Jun 30

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  Jun 30, 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM EDT

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  Aristotle analogizes the generation of an animal to what happens in craft production: just as a builder uses a saw and a hammer as “tools” to build a house, so too the soul uses “tools” to build an animal. Emily identifies and attempts to resolve a puzzle about these tools.

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