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Two Day Workshop:
"The Phaedrus"
Wimbledon: 5-6th November, 2011
Bristol: Date to be announced
(Please note, the London workshop is now fully subscribed, but we will repeat it in Radlett (North London) later in 2012)
The Phaedrus is one of the great philosophic works of the West: in many ways it can be considered as Plato’s programmatic statement of all his most fundamental teachings: the opening line, “Where are you going, my dear Phaedrus, and from whence come you?” indicating the very questions every human being needs be asked.
This two-day workshop will explore the many extraordinary insights the dialogue has offered to its readers over the two-and-a-half millennia since its initial publication, and which still startle and delight today’s thinkers. Here is a vision of the original condition of the human soul, its descent into terrestrial realms, its struggle to integrate its diverse powers, the essential role of Eros in its re-ascent, and much else besides.
It is in the Phaedrus, that Plato makes his most explicit claim for the power of spoken philosophy and for the necessity for the philosophic experience to be “soul to soul” rather than a merely text-based one; for this reason, the Prometheus Trust considers it a particularly appropriate basis for a small scale workshop, which will be limited to 12 participants.
The workshop will be led by Tim Addey and Guy Wyndham-Jones, both of whom are regular tutors for the Prometheus Trust's educational course, Philosophy as the Love of Wisdom, and contributing authors to the Trust’s Students’ Edition Series introductory paperbacks.
Venue: 1 Bernard Gardens, Wimbledon, London SW19 7BE
Date: Saturday and Sunday, 5-6 November 2011 from 10.30 am to 5 pm
Cost: £20 to include refreshments (discounts available for those on limited incomes)
Please email the Trust to make enquiries and to book a place: info@prometheustrust.co.uk
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