[SydPhil] Masterclass program — The Notre Dame Winter School on Aristotle’s Ethics

[Timothy Smartt]

Masterclass — “The Notre Dame Winter School on Aristotle’s Ethics”
5-7 August 2024
The University of Notre Dame Australia, Sydney


The Institute for Ethics & Society at The University of Notre Dame Australia will host a three-day masterclass on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics led by leading scholars of Aristotle’s ethics.

The event is an opportunity to take a deep dive into one of the most influential texts in the history of ethics. Each session will focus on a theme or passage from the text, and will be led by one of the instructors.

The masterclass will be held on The University of Notre Dame Australia’s Sydney campus (Broadway) and online. All participants are welcome, including undergraduates, HDR students, faculty, and members of the wider community. Registration essential.

To register, please email Tim Smartt (timothy.smartt at nd.edu.au<mailto:timothy.smartt at nd.edu.au>)

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PROGRAM

Monday 5 August

10:00am Session 1
Speaker: Roger Crisp (Oxford)
Topic: Happiness
Pre-reading: Nicomachean Ethics (NE) I and X.6–7

12:00pm Lunch

1:15pm Session 2
Speakers: Sukaina Hirji (Penn) & Emily Hulme (Sydney)
Topic: The endoxic method, and what Aristotle’s ethics is (and isn’t)
Pre-reading: NE VII.1

3:15pm Break

3:30pm Session 3 (text-based discussion)
Speaker: Emily Hulme (Sydney)
Topic: Habituation
Pre-reading: NE II.1

4:45pm Close

Tuesday 6 August

10:00am Session 4
Speaker: Rachana Kamtekar (Cornell)
Topic: Voluntary action
Pre-reading: NE III.1

12:00pm Lunch

1:15pm Session 5
Speakers: David Bronstein (IES) & Antonio Ferro (Heidelberg)
Topic: Intellectual virtue
Pre-reading: NE VI

3:15pm Break

3:30pm Session 6 (text-based discussion)
Speaker: Margaret Hampson (St Andrews)
Topic: A puzzle about moral habituation
Pre-reading: NE II.4

4:45pm Close

Wednesday 7 August

10:00am Session 7
Speakers: Margaret Hampson (St. Andrews) & Rachel Singpurwalla (Maryland)
Topic: Aristotle on the fine (to kalon)
Pre-reading: NE III.6–9, IV.2, IX.8

12:00pm Lunch

1:15pm Session 8
Speakers: Marta Jiménez (Complutense University of Madrid) & Patricia Marechal (UCSD)
Topic: Self-love and self-knowledge
Pre-reading: NE IX (esp. IX.8)

3:15pm Break

3:30pm Session 9: Open discussion

4:45pm Close

6:30pm Pay-your-own-way dinner for winter school speakers, families, and participants, Opera Bar, Sydney Opera House


The Notre Dame Winter School on Aristotle’s Ethics is supported by David Bronstein’s ARC Future Fellowship project ‘Virtue with Aristotle: Recovering an Ancient Ethical Theory for Our Time’, with funding from a UNDA Big Ideas grant in support of developing the new Notre Dame Centre for the History of Philosophy.


Tim Smartt
Lecturer and Research Fellow
Institute for Ethics & Society
University of Notre Dame Australia, Sydney

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