Symposium on Reason and Will in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy
Programme
Programme
Arrival and Registration
19:00- Welcome Dinner (Speakers)
9:00 Opening
Session 1: Cognition and Knowledge
9:10-9:45 Akira Kawashima (Keio University)
Epithymētikon and the Place of Perception in Plato’s Republic
9:45-10:20 Simin Liu (The University of Tokyo)
Logos in the Scala Amoris
10:20-10:55 Tomoki Ishikawa (University of Tokyo)
Willing and Learning: the role of uoluntas in Augustine’s De Magistro
Coffee Break
11:15-11:50 Zhenyu Cai (Peking University)
Avicenna on representation: towards an existential-relational account of intentionality
11:50-12:25 Dong Xiuyuan (Shandong University)
Necessary Knowledge in Jewish Scholasticism
12:25-12:40 General Discussion
Lunch
Session 2: Human Nature
14:00-14:35 ZHANG Bo–bo (Shaanxi Normal University)
Pleasures as a Kind of Emotion: A Study of Moral Psychology in Plato’s Laws
14:35-15:10 Jiangxia Yu (Shaanxi Normal University)
The Stoic Thinking on the Pleasure of Children
15:10-15:45 Kelvin Chong Chun Ming (Singapore Bible College)
A New Dimension of Volition in Maximian Hermeneutics
Coffee Break
16:05-16:40 Raphael Yü-sen Peng (Nankai University)
The Concept of Human Intellect in Gregory of Nyssa’s De opificio hominis
16:40-17:15 WANG Zichao (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
On Mechthild’s Imagery of Devil — Sinful Will, Suffering Soul, and Painful Body
17:15-17:30 General Discussion
18:00- Dinner
9:00 Opening
Session 3: Free Will
9:10-9:45 Eleni Mathiou (Fudan University)
Conceptual definition of the free will and its historical development in the Hellenistic times
9:45-10:20 Tomohiko Kondo (Keio University)
Alexander of Aphrodisias on Reason and Free Choice
10:20-10:55 Teng He (Fudan University)
Freedom and Will in Augustine and Origen
Coffee Break
11:15-11:50 Adam Takahashi (Kwansei Gakuin University)
Divine Providence and Natural Causality: Albertus Magnus on Angels and Miracles in his Commentary on the Sentences
11:50-12:25 Lingchang Gui (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)
Aquinas’ Reception and Modification of Boethius’ Theory on the Relationship between Providence and Free Will
12:25-12:40 General Discussion
Lunch
Session 4: Philosophy, Theology and Religion
14:00-14:35 Ai Kawamoto (Hokkaido University Press)
Will, Epictetus, Buddhism: the use of Epictetus by Kiyozawa Manshi
14:35-15:10 Yu Hoki (Kyoto University)
Classical Ashʿarite Theology and Modern Western Philosophy
15:10-15:45 Xu Ke (Zhejiang University)
Thomas Aquinas on providence and the nature
Coffee Break
16:05-16:40 Racheli Haliva (Shandong University)
God’s commandments: Divine Decree or Reasonable Laws, the case of Joseph ibn Kaspi
16:40-17:15 Li Hao (Fudan University)
Martin Luther’s dual understanding of ratio in his Commentary on Galatians
17:15-17:30 General Discussion
19:00- Dinner