Giulia Bonasio

Address: Dalhousie University 2131 McCain Building Email: [email protected] Halifax B3H4R2 Website: https://giuliabonasio.wordpress.com/ Nova Scotia, Canada

Research Interests

AOS: Ancient Philosophy, , Moral Psychology

AOC: History of Philosophy, and Latin Language and Literature, Ethics, Aesthetics

Positions and research Fellowships

· July 2019 - current Faculty Fellow at the University of King’s College - Halifax

· January 2019 - June 2019 Lecturer in Classics - Dalhousie University

· September 2017- December 2018 Preceptorship in Contemporary Civilization - Core Curricu- lum - Columbia University

· September 2012- February 2019 PhD in Classical Studies - Columbia University

· 2018 Chateaubriand Fellowship - Paris I - Panth´eon Sorbonne

· 2016 DAAD Fellowship - Munich School for Ancient Philosophy

Education

· February 13, 2019: Ph.D. in Classical Studies. Columbia University. Dissertation: Happiness and Superlative Value in the Eudemian Ethics. Sponsor: Professor Katja Vogt.

· May 20, 2015 M. Phil. in Classical Studies, Columbia University

· February 12, 2014 MA in Classical Studies at Columbia University

· 2011-2012 PhD student in Ancient Philosophy, Centre L´eon Robin, Paris IV - Sorbonne

· 2009-2011 MA in Philosophy (110 cum laude/110). Universit`adi Padova, Italy. Master thesis’ on cognition and emotions in Kant and in F. Sibley.

· 2006-2011 Diploma of the Galilean School of Higher Education, Padua, Italy (70 cum laude/70). Thesis’ title: Tragic emotions: pity and fear in .

· 2006-2009 BA in Philosophy (110 cum laude/110). Universit`adi Padova, Italy. Thesis’ title: The multiple senses of being: a comparison among Aristotle, Brentano and Heidegger. Giulia Bonasio Curriculum Vitae

Publications

· “Kalokagathia and the unity of the virtues in the Eudemian Ethics: the kalos kagathos.” APEIRON, AOP, February 2019.

· “Pleasure and motivation in the Eudemian Ethics” in Proceedings of the Aristotle World Congress in Thessaloniki: Aristotle 2400 Years, D. Sfendoni-Mentzou (ed.). Forthcoming.

· “Beyond the flammantia moenia mundi. The transgressive notion of the sublime in Lucretius’ De rerum natura,” Journal of the LUCAS graduate conference, Leiden, February 2016.

· “Passions tragiques : la piti´eet la crainte par rapport `ala catharsis en Aristote,” Proceedings of the conference: Passions : transports, sublimation, Universit´ePaul-Val´ery, Montpellier, France, 2014.

· “Aesthetic pleasure: cognition and emotion in the aesthetic concepts. Remarks after Sibley’s work,” Rivista di Estetica, 55, 1, 2014 (submitted and accepted in 2011).

Book Reviews

· W. Lapini, L’epistola a Erodoto e il bios di Epicuro in Diogene Laerzio (2015), Gymna- sium. Zeitschrift f¨urKultur der Antike und Humanistische Bildung, M. Janka, A. Luther, U. Schmitzer (eds.), 124, 2, 2017, pp. 186-188.

· J. Warren, The pleasures of reason in , Aristotle, and the Hellenistic Hedonists (2014), Classical World, 109, 4, 2016.

Grants and awards

· September 2017- December 2018 Preceptorship in Contemporary Civilization - Core Curricu- lum - Columbia University

· 2018 Chateaubriand Fellowship for four months at Paris I - Panth´eonSorbonne

· 2017-2018 Teaching-scholar Fellowship at Columbia University for teaching a self-designed class on Aristotle’s ethics (declined)

· 2012-2017 Dean’s Fellowship, Columbia University

· 2016 DAAD fellowship for studying at the Munich School of Ancient Philosophy

· 2016 Aristotle World Congress grant for excellence in research

· 2015 Classical Studies grant for mentoring first year PhD students (Columbia University)

· 2015 Columbia University GSAC travel grant

· 2013-2018 Classical Studies summer research fellowship Giulia Bonasio Curriculum Vitae

· 2010-2011 University of California and University of Padova fellowship for studying at the University of California Los Angeles.

· 2006-2011 Fellowship for studying at the Galilean School of Higher Education during BA and MA (Padova, Italy)

Teaching

· Fall 2019 - current Foundation Year Program (Core texts in philosophy and literature). King’s College.

· Winter 2019 Advanced Greek Seminar on Greek Tragedy. Sole Instructor. Dalhousie Univer- sity.

· Winter 2019 Introductory Latin II. Sole Instructor. Dalhousie University.

· Fall 2018 Contemporary Civilization (List of authors and texts taught: Plato, Aristotle, Sto- ics, Epicureans, Tanach, New Testament, Qur’an, Augustine, Aquinas, Al-Ghazali, Avicenna, Averroes, Machiavelli, Luther, Calvin, Descartes, Galileo, Hobbes, Locke). Sole Instructor. Columbia University - Core Curriculum.

· Spring 2018 Contemporary Civilization (List of authors and texts taught: Hume, Rousseau, Smith, Kant, texts of the American and French Revolutions, Burke, Wollstonecraft, Toc- queville, Hegel, Mill, Marx, Nietzsche, Darwin, Du Bois, Fanon, Gandhi, Foucault). Sole Instructor. Columbia University - Core Curriculum.

· Fall 2017 Contemporary Civilization (from Plato to Locke). Sole Instructor. Columbia Uni- versity - Core Curriculum.

· Fall 2015: Elementary Latin II. Sole Instructor. Columbia University.

· Spring 2015: Elementary Latin I. Sole Instructor. Columbia University.

· Fall 2014: Introduction to Philosophy. Teaching Assistant. Columbia University - Barnard.

· Spring 2014: Intensive Elementary Latin. Teaching Assistant. Columbia University.

· Fall 2013: Greek History. Teaching Assistant. Columbia University.

Presentations

· May 17, 2019 “Naturalism in the Eudemian Ethics,” Keeling Conference on Ancient Philos- ophy, UCL, London.

· April 12, 2019 “Honour as a natural good in the Eudemian Ethics,” Conference of the ERC project on Honour in Classical Greece, Pisa. Giulia Bonasio Curriculum Vitae

· January 7, 2019 “Kalokagathia and the unity of the virtues in the Eudemian Ethics,” APA Eastern Meeting, New York.

· November 27, 2018 “Kalokagathia and the unity of the virtues in the Eudemian Ethics,” Classics Colloquium, Dalhousie University, Halifax.

· October 26/27, 2018 “Kalokagathia and the unity of the virtues in the Eudemian Ethics,” Canadian Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy, Sherbrooke University.

· June 28, 2018 “Natural goods and Natural Goods Naturalism in the Eudemian Ethics,” Munich-New York City Workshop in Ethics, Kompetenzzentrum Ethik, LMU, Munich.

· June 15, 2018 “Kalokagathia and the unity of the virtues in the Eudemian Ethics,” Conference on the relation between the Eudemian Ethics and the , Trinity College, Dublin.

· June 8, 2018 “Desire for the natural goods in the Eudemian Ethics,” Seminar on desire, ´equipe GRAMATA, Universit´eParis I Panth´eonSorbonne.

· February 21-24, 2018 “Natural goods in the Eudemian Ethics: a particular type of good-for,” APA Central Division Meeting, Chicago.

· November 17, 2017 “Perfect agency in the Eudemian ethics: the kalos kagathos,” NYU Work- in-progress seminar.

· October 21, 2017 “Natural goods in the Eudemian Ethics,” SAGP conference at Fordham University (New York).

· January 8, 2017 “Pleasure and motivation in the Eudemian Ethics,” AIA-SCS Meeting in Toronto.

· December 16, 2016 “Perfect agency in the Eudemian Ethics: the kalos kagathos,” Ancient Philosophy Workshop for Female Graduate Students and Early Career Researchers, Humboldt University, Berlin.

· October 7, 2016 “Pleasure and the apparent good in the Eudemian Ethics,” Work in Progress Workshop in Ancient and Contemporary Ethics, Columbia University.

· June 21, 2016 “Pleasure in the Eudemian Ethics,” Doctoral colloquium, Munich School of Ancient Philosophy.

· May 23-28, 2016 “Pleasure and happiness in the Eudemian Ethics. Against the view that pleasure is the apparent good,” Aristotle World Congress: 2400 years, Thessaloniki, Greece.

· May 9, 2016 “Kalokagathia in Aristotle’s Eudemian Ethics,” Oberseminar (invited by Prof. C. Horn), University of Bonn, Germany.

· April 26, 2016 “The kalos kagathos as the ideal agent of the Eudemian Ethics,” Oberseminar, Munich School of Ancient Philosophy. Giulia Bonasio Curriculum Vitae

· April 20-22, 2016 “Aristotle on kalokagathia and happiness,” International Congress of Greek Philosophy, Lisbon, Portugal.

· October 23-25, 2015 “Aristotle on kalokagathia and happiness,” SAGP conference at Fordham University (New York).

· September 24-26, 2015 “The psychology of the kalon: Plato on love and beauty,” conference on “Love and the Good,” Pardubice, Czech .

· April 17-19, 2015 “What is pleasure? On the definition of pleasure in Aristotle’s ethics,” conference on “Pain and pleasure”, Columbia University, New York.

· January 29-30, 2015 “Beyond the flammantia moenia mundi: sublime transgressions in Lu- cretius’ De Rerum Natura,” LUCAS conference on “Breaking the rules,” University of Leiden (Netherlands).

· June 16-18, 2014 “Plato on the good and the beautiful,” “Agency and values” conference, Columbia University and Alliance Fran¸caise,Paris.

· May 2-4, 2014 “On the nature of desire in Aristotle: why desire cannot be psychophysical,” Canadian Colloquium for Ancient Philosophy, Vancouver, Canada.

· April 3, 2014 “Le kalon comme cause de l’action chez Platon,” seminar on “AITIAI, le lien causal dans le monde antique” at the Centre L´eonRobin, Sorbonne Universit´e,Paris IV.

· June 14-15, 2012 “Passions tragiques: la piti´eet la crainte par rapport `ala catharsis en Aris- tote,” conference “Passions: transports, sublimation,” Universit´ePaul Valery, Montpellier, France.

Commentaries

· October 28, 2019 Commentator of S. Hirji’s paper on virtue and contemplation. Workshop in Ancient and Contemporary Ethics, Columbia University.

· September 28, 2018 Commentator of J. Annas’ paper on ancient eudaimonism and modern morality, Classical Dialogues, Columbia University.

· March 2, 2018 Commentator of M. Lane’s paper on the Republic. Classical Dialogues. Columbia University.

· November 27, 2017 Commentator of D. Jagannathan’s paper on the Philebus, Workshop in Ancient and Contemporary Ethics, Columbia University.

· May 4, 2014 Commentator of M. Johnstone’s paper on “Aristotle and Alexander on the possibility of perceptual error.” Canadian Colloquium for Ancient Philosophy, Vancouver, Canada.

· April 5-6, 2013 Commentator of P. Destr´ee’spaper on “Aristotle on dramatic pleasures,” conference on “Rethinking aesthetics and the politics of pleasure in Ancient Greek literature and culture,” Columbia University. Giulia Bonasio Curriculum Vitae

Reading groups and workshops

· March 23, 2019 Organizer of the Workshop on Ethics and Nature in Ancient Philosophy, Dalhousie University.

· June 25-27, 2018 Participant in the Masterclass on “Actions, projects and the good,” Ancient and Contemporary Ethics, Munich School of Philosophy.

· April 13, 2018 Speaker on Classroom Discussion: From to the Progressive Stack at the Team Teaching Pedagogy Colloquium, Columbia University.

· Fall 2015 Organizer of the Reading Group on Aristotle’s Eudemian Ethics at Columbia Uni- versity. Reading of EE I, II, VIII.3 in Greek and discussion of papers from the secondary literature.

· Fall 2015 Organizer of a one day workshop on the Eudemian Ethics at Columbia University, involving presentations done by PhD students.

Outreach

· 2015 Teaching in the philosophy community outreach program “Rethink” (Columbia Univer- sity, New York).

Service

· 2019 Reader for the MA thesis of Torin Vigerstand on Aristotle’s Self - Dalhousie University.

· 2019 Reviewer for the volume Feminine Perspective in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy.

Languages

· Italian (Native)

· English (Fluent)

· French (Fluent)

· German (Advanced)

· Portuguese, Spanish (Reading and listening: advanced; speaking and writing: intermediate)

· Ancient languages: Greek, Latin. Giulia Bonasio Curriculum Vitae

Dissertation abstract

In my dissertation Happiness and Superlative Value in the Eudemian Ethics, I analyze dimensions of the Eudemian Ethics (EE) that, as I see it, make the EE a distinctive contribution to ethics. The EE discusses a superlative excellence called kalokagathia, the virtue of being-beautiful-and-good, which does not figure in the Nicomachean Ethics (NE). The agent who possesses kalokagathia is the best agent of Aristotle’s EE. This interpretive proposal has significant implications. Scholars tend to hold that the practically wise person, the phronimos, is the best agent of the NE. If this is compelling, and if my reading of the EE is right, then the EE and the NE conceive differently of the best agent. This is salient in both treatises’ construals of the unity of the virtues. In the NE, the unity of the virtues includes the character virtues and phronˆesis. In the EE, it additionally includes the virtues of theoretical thinking, or so I argue. The EE starts with what I call the Superlative Thesis (ST): happiness is what is best, most beautiful, and most pleasant of all. I take this beginning to be programmatic. Aristotle aims to show how these three kinds of value combine in the best human life, rather than coming apart. The Pleasure Thesis (PT) is the most contested aspect of ST: happiness is the most pleasant thing of all. On my reading, Aristotle fully embraces PT. In laying out his proposal for the best human life, the Aristotle of the EE develops a distinctive kind of naturalism, which I call Natural Goods Naturalism. I reconstruct this position in two steps: by interpreting the EE’s function argument; and by exploring the notion of natural goods, which is central to the EE, but does not figure in the NE. In sum, my dissertation argues that the EE contains a distinctive and under-appreciated option within ancient ethics, and that it contains ideas that are relevant to today’s virtue ethics.

References

Katja Vogt (sponsor), Professor of Philosophy Columbia University, [email protected].

Gareth Williams, Violin Family Professor of Classics Columbia University, [email protected].

Karen Margrethe Nielsen, Professor of Philosophy University of Oxford, [email protected].

Douglas Cairns, Professor of Classics University of Edinburgh, [email protected].

Marwan Rashed, Professor of History of Greek and Arabic Philosophy Paris IV - Sorbonne, [email protected].

Pierre-Marie Morel, Professor of Philosophy Paris I - Panth´eonSorbonne, [email protected].

Teaching references: Patricia Kitcher, Professor of Philosophy Giulia Bonasio Curriculum Vitae

Columbia University, [email protected].

Simona Aimar, Lecturer in Philosophy University College London, [email protected].

Last modification: June 21, 2019