Salvete Romani,
For those familiar with the concept: YES YES, another symposium, grander than ever, is to be held at Villa Draconis, on a remote island not very far away from Capri, with environments both exuberant and calm and varied company ranging from the most vulgar drunkard to the most sophisticated, erm, sophist
. You get the gist: the Villa Draconis is the hottest place to be with regards to philosophy and partying.
Lest Piscinus accuse me of stinginess, litres of the best wine have been imported from the main land, enough to satisfy even Locatus' thirst and to fill the Tartaros with. But we have also thought of the stoic ascetic, having built a temple on a high mountain peak, overseeing the misty green valley, which at night sleeps under a blanket of a thousand stars and the rolling waves of the ocean.
For those unfamiliar with the concept, here's what's it about: basically, three up to ... people join each other for a debate with a more or less fixed order of subjects, each one of them embodying a philosophical current from the ancient world. Just like Greek symposia, we centre around the wine table talking the day (and night away).
So okay peeps, I'll be your host, but this won't prevent me from also partaking in the debate
.
The topics for Symposium III will be:
* Is absolute peace possible?
* Can there be a limit to our knowledge?
What I need are the following:
* A minimum of two other debaters. Applicants are accepted under this topic during the whole week. The symposium is to commence on January 18.
* Applicants should select one of the following currents: presocratic natural philosophy, pythagoreanism, heraclitanism, sophism, epicureanism, stoicism, Roman stoicism, cynicism, cyrenaeism, platonism, neo-platonism or aristoteleanism. Eclectics are also welcome. Be aware that if you are the voice of a philosophy, you should know something about it, even though you can freely interpret it.
* No two participants can take the same current, or switch currents during the debate (hmmm... that might be an idea for Symposium IV... forced switching
).
Don't be shy!
Valete bene,
Scorpio
Gn. Dionysius Draco Invictus