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Plato and Us: The Ethics of Community
13 October 2022, 7pm
Plato and Us: The Ethics of Community
Emerita Professor at King’s College London and an Honorary Fellow of Jesus College Cambridge, Professor MM McCabe is a distinguished scholar and expert on Plato and his philosophy. She is the general editor of the Cambridge University Press series Studies in the Dialogues of Plato and has published widely onAristotle and on the Stoics, as well as on Plato’s predecessors, the pre-Socratics and Socrates. A former President of the British Philosophical Association (2008-12) and of The Mind Association (2016-17), she is currently the Honorary President of the national Classical Association. Her long-held research interest in philosophy and concepts of punishment led her to become the Founder and a Trustee of Philosophy in Prisons. MM will guide us to learn more about what Plato can teach us about modern living, the ethics of being in a community, and why we do what we do.