Event time:
Monday, December 3, 2018 - 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Location:
LC 206
Event description:
WGAP is pleased to announce the rescheduled date for the next talk of the semester.
Speaker: Jonathan Fine
Date/Time: Monday, December 3rd, 5:30-7:30pm
Location: LC 206
Title: Of Pots and Pleasures: Beauty and Taste in the Hippias Major
Abstract: The concept of the kalon (beautiful, noble, admirable) often distinguishes ‘honourable’ as opposed to ‘shameful’ pleasures in aesthetic terms, as beautiful as opposed to ugly. How are these distinctions drawn? The Hippias Major contains an implicit and compelling answer: social practices shape how beauty is conceived and perceived in classical Greek ethics. I show how contests over which sensory pleasures and material objects, especially taste and cookery, are kalon involve class-based ‘pursuits and customs’ from which one learns what it means to live well - not unlike Taste in the 18th-century.
Pizza and drinks will be served. We hope to see many of you there!
Best,
Jake Rohde, on behalf of WGAP