Pozvana predavanja / Keynote lectures

Mislav Kukoč

Full Professor of Philosophy
Filozofski fakultet, Sveučilište u Splitu, Hrvatska /Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split, Croatia

Dvadeset (prvih?) godina Mediteranskih korijena filozofije

Na pragu 50. obljetnice svojega postojanja, Hrvatsko filozofsko društvo je 2007. godine, zajedno s tek osnovanim Odsjekom za filozofiju Filozofskog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Splitu, pokrenulo međunarodni filozofski i interdisciplinarni simpozij. Dvadeseta obljetnica uspješnog održavanja prigoda je da se u analitičko-sintetičkoj raščlambi postignuća ovoga simpozija prikažu njegovi dosadašnji rezultati koji bi trebali biti poticaj za daljnja filozofska i interdisciplinarna istraživanja mediteranskih korijena filozofije.

(First?) Twenty Years of the Mediterranean Roots of Philosophy

In 2007, on the threshold of its 50th anniversary, the Croatian Philosophical Society, together with the newly established Department of Philosophy at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split, launched an international philosophical and interdisciplinary symposium. The twentieth anniversary of its successful holding is an opportunity to present its results to date in an analytical-synthetic analysis of the achievements of this symposium, which should be an incentive for further philosophical and interdisciplinary investigations of the Mediterranean roots of philosophy.

Stelios Virvidakis

Professor Emeritus of Philosophy
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece / Nacionalno i kapodistrijsko sveučilište u Ateni, Grčka

ANCIENT GREEK PHILOSOPHICAL INSIGHTS IN MODERN GREEK POETRY

Greek poets are often inspired by philosophical ideas expressed by Greek and Roman authors, including various philosophers, from the Presocratic era to late Antiquity.  After  a brief survey of instances of philosophical influences in the work of poets of the twentieth century, such as Constantine Cavafy, Anghelos Sikelianos, George Seferis and Odysseus Elytis,   I focus on  the conception of justice, construed in the light of historical experience and in the context of familiarity with  the Greek landscape.  I engage mainly in the analysis of the poetry of Seferis, in particular, his longer compositions, “Mythistorima” and “Trush” and his shorter poem “On the Aspalathoi”. The paper proceeds to a detailed discussion of  explicit and implicit references to Plato, with a view to providing a general assessment of the assimilation and  elaboration of philosophical insights by literary means.