Events at Reed

November 5, 2015

Lecture: Chiara Ricciardone, "Famous Last Words: The Life, Death, and Disease of Socrates"

Thursday, 4:15 p.m., Eliot Hall 314

Socrates’s last words in Plato’s Phaedo have puzzled commentators since antiquity. A great deal of Plato’s philosophical legacy hinges on how we interpret his version of Socrates’s deathbed command: “We owe a cock to Asclepius, Crito; pay the debt and do not neglect it!” Do these enigmatic words contain a repudiation of embodied life, or do they provide guidance on how to live? In this talk, Chiara Ricciardone offers a fresh interpretation of the final scene of Phaedo that brings out its philosophical significance, literary subtlety, and relevance to how we live our lives today.

Chiara T. Ricciardone is a writer, activist, and philosopher currently completing her Ph.D. in rhetoric at U.C. Berkeley. Her scholarship focuses on the philosophical meaning of Plato's rhetoric of disease and has been recognized by Berkeley's Mellon Discovery Fellowship and the Critical Theory Dissertation Fellowship.​ She lives and writes on the Oregon coast.

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