Workshop on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics X.6–9
Prague | 20–22 May 2026
Overview
This workshop brings together scholars working on Book X, chapters 6–9 of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. The meeting is designed as a small, discussion-focused event in which participants introduce selected passages as a basis for collective interpretation and debate.
Recent scholarship has renewed attention to the concluding chapters of the Ethics, especially the relationship between happiness, contemplation, and political life. This workshop provides an opportunity for concentrated engagement with these questions through close textual discussion.
The workshop will open with a keynote lecture by Dorothea Frede, reflecting on interpretive questions that remain open in current scholarship.
Programme
Wednesday, 20 May 2026
09:00–10:30
NE 10.6 (1176a33–1177a11)
Presenter: Katja Vogt
Chair: Pierre Destrée
11:00–12:30
NE 10.7 (1177a12–b15)
Presenter: Daniel Ferguson
Chair: George Karamanolis
Lunch Break
14:00–15:30
NE 10.7 (1177b16–10.8, 1178a23)
Presenter: Bryan Reece
Chair: David Machek
16:00–17:30
Keynote Lecture
Dorothea Frede
Thursday, 21 May 2026
09:00–10:30
NE 10.8 (1178a23–b32)
Presenter: Adam Beresford
Chair: Robert Roreitner
11:00–12:30
NE 10.8 (1178b33–1179a32)
Presenter: Philipp Brüllmann
Chair: Hynek Bartoš
Lunch Break
15:30–17:00
NE 10.9 (1179a33–1180a1)
Presenters: Marta Jimenez, Patricia Marechal
Chair: Josh Mendelsohn
Friday, 22 May 2026
09:00–10:30
NE 10.9 (1180a1–b7)
Presenter: Joachim Aufderheide
Chair: Michael Pakaluk
11:00–12:30
NE 10.9 (1180b7–1181a9)
Presenter: Jessica Moss
Chair: Filip Karfík
Lunch Break
15:30–17:00
NE 10.9 (1181a9–b24)
Presenter: Dhananjay Jagannathan
Chair: Jakub Jirsa
Speakers
- Katja Vogt
- Daniel Ferguson
- Bryan Reece
- Adam Beresford
- Philipp Brüllmann
- Marta Jimenez
- Patricia Marechal
- Joachim Aufderheide
- Jessica Moss
- Dhananjay Jagannathan
Keynote Speaker: Dorothea Frede
Location
Prague, Czech Republic
Contact
Organizer: Jakub Jirsa
Email: jakub.jirsa@ff.cuni.cz