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Beierwaltes Seminar VIOn 24 February, Prof. Schmidt-Biggemann (Berlin) delivered a talk, entitled 'Shelling’s Theology and Heidegger’s Godless Revelation', to the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism. While in Cambridge, Prof. Schmidt-Biggemann also participated in the Centre's Schelling reading seminar. The following day the Centre hosted '…

Dr. Daniel Watson gave a talk, entitled 'The Conciliation of Natural Language and Natural Law in Early Irish Literature', to the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism.

It is with great regret that the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism notes the untimely death of Professor Jens Halfwassen of Heidelberg university. Professor Halfwassen was a scholar of immense erudition, wide systematic range and formidable insight. He was distinguished bearer of the living metaphysical traditions of Late Antique Platonis…

The nation has lost an eminent philosopher, and an ardent defender of the humanities in an age when we urgently need his light. Throughout his illustrious career and prolific writings, Roger Scruton developed a rich and nuanced system of thought, within which the soul’s longing for beauty, a sense of wonder and a veneration of sacred are pivotal. S…

Dr Stephen Blackwood gave the talk, entitled 'Why we need the Ancient Greeks today' to the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism on 12 November 2019. The talk moved from reflections on some of the problems of modernity to a consideration of the ways in which ancient thought might help us to overcome these difficulties.

On 7 November 2019 Margaret Barker delivered a talk, entitled 'The Lady and Her City: The Book of Revelation and in a Led Book From Jordan', to the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism.

On 24 October 2019 Prof. Predrag Cicovacki presented his a talk entitled 'Tolstoy and Platonism' to the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism.

On 28 October 2019 Dr Alan Cardew delivered a talk to the Centre, entitled 'Divine Games: Nicholas of Cusa The Game of Spheres and Hermann Hesse The Glass Bead Game'.

Colloquium Adamantianum is a workshop hosted by the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism twice a year. Each of the Colloquia revolves around the research of one pre-eminent contemporary scholar on Origen and the Alexandrian tradition, exploring the Platonist origins of Christian metaphysics. On 12 October 2019, the Centre hosted Prof. Mark E…

Many people today fear that there will be no future for our planet and all the living beings which live on it without a radical evolution of our current world. This cannot happen without changing our way of bringing up and educating children, of relating to our natural and cultural environment, and of conceiving of theory and culture. Two contribut…

Beierwaltes Seminar VThe One, the principle of all being and thought and as such, famously, “beyond” both “in rank and power”, cannot be the object of discursive thought and hence defies all attempt at conceptual definition. However, the soul can become one with it in rare insights described with great imaginative vigour in Plato and Plotinus as we…

Beierwaltes Lecture

Beierwaltes LectureThe Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism hosted Prof. John Rist for his Beierwaltes Lecture, entitled 'Popper's Plato Revisited', on 10 June. The lecture was followed by a second talk on 11 June.

ConferenceThe Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism was well represented at the Jacob Boehme in Britain conference 23rd-25th of May 2019 in Coventry, hosted by Centre fellow Dr. Cecilia Muratori. Centre members Dr James Bryson and Dr Christian Hengstermann both presented papers.

Conference in Rome, 1-3 June.The Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism was well represented at the Foro Di Studi Avanzati in Rome at Santa Lucia Filippini from 1-3 June. In attendance were Centre Director, Prof. Douglas Hedley, Centre Members Prof. Stephen Gersh and Prof. Jean-Marc Narbonne, and Centre Members Dr. James Bryson, Dr. Isidoros K…