Platonic Summer Seminar 2026:
Ἀλήθεια
The 10th Platonic Summer Seminar is devoted to the question of truth — not as a theme among others, but as the inner condition of philosophy itself. Our guiding hypothesis is simple and demanding: truth is not primarily a property of propositions, but a way in which beings become accessible, in which the world opens, and in which a life can be formed. This is why the seminar will move constantly between conceptual analysis and existential orientation — between the logic of statements and the experience of disclosure, and ultimately the question of being.

Our seminar sessions will follow the path delineated by Plato’s Allegory of the Cave. We treat the Cave not merely as a literary metaphor, but as a description of human being, and a phenomenology of truth. The seminar is designed as a psychagogia—a leading of the soul—through the four stages of truth:
1. The stay in the cave (the default human condition).
2. The painful periagoge (the turning of the gaze).
3. The ascent to the light.
4. The necessary descent back.

The Analytic and Aristotelian Horizon
In parallel, the afternoon workshops and guest lectures will anchor our investigation in the rigorous texts of Theaetetus, the Sophist, and Aristotle's Metaphysics. We will ask: How does truth relate to the adequacy of knowledge? How is it possible to speak the false, and what does this reveal about the structure of being?

A Decade in Lanckorona
Lanckorona is not just a backdrop; it is our topos. The seminar invites participants to engage in a shared life of thought, bridging the gap between ancient Greek insight and contemporary philosophizing.

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