Pauline Annick Sabrier
Postdoc
Department of Philosophy
Research and publications
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Selected Publications
9 publications
The Way We Divide Forms ’in Our Soul’: Conceived Parthood at Plato’s Sophist 250b8
Pauline Sabrier, Méthexis (2024) | Journal articleAre the Five Great Kinds (Megista Genê) of the Sophist Plato’s Categories?
Pauline Sabrier, Revue de Philosophie Ancienne (2024) | Journal article -
Research projects
The Care for the Soul in Plato and Platonic Ethics: A Contemporary Dialogue
Status: CompletedStart 01.12.2024 End 28.02.2025 Funding SNSF Open project sheet The purpose of the present project is to organise a conference gathering specialists in Ancient Philosophy and Contemporary Ethics to discuss the relevance of Plato's understanding of the care for the soul (epimeleia tês psuchês) for the contemporary debate over care ethics. Care ethics is a moral theory based on the recognition that a certain type of human dependency relations is of central moral significance (e.g. between a parent and their child, between a nurse and a patient). It is gaining momentum as an alternative to other contemporary moral theories, such as duty-based ethics, consequentialism, or virtue ethics. In Plato, the care for the soul not only plays a central role at the individual level, but also at the level of the polis. The conference will be the first step in preparation for an edited volume on this topic.