When Language Falls Silent: Ancient and Comparative Perspectives on the Ineffable

Description

The international conference ' When Language Falls Silent: Ancient and Comparative Perspectives on the Ineffable' seeks to explore how ancient philosophers, from Plato and Aristotle to the Neoplatonists, engaged with the ineffable. Rather than always relying on logical principles, they sometimes put them to the test or complemented them with other strategies—developing aporias, using images and analogies, turning to poetry, and even invoking silence as a way of approaching what lies beyond discursivity. These approaches reveal that the question of what cannot be spoken is not foreign to ancient philosophy, but integral to its development.

Stefano Parrinello and Inaki Larrinaga delivered a paper titled 'Plato and the Stoics on truth-revealing images of the divine'.

Period	29 Jun 2026 → 1 Jul 2026
Held at	University of Valladolid, Spain
Degree of Recognition	International