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Colloquium (Mitzi Lee, Colorado, Boulder)
Thursday March 26, 2026, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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As speaker for our first Spring 2026 colloquium, the department is delighted to welcome Mi-Kyoung (Mitzi) Lee, an associate professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Dr. Lee specializes in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy. She is the author of Epistemology after Protagoras: Responses to Relativism in Plato, Aristotle, and Democritus (Clarendon Press, 2005), which won an honorable mention in the American Philosophical Association Book Prize 2007, for authors under 40.
Talk Title
Justice as a Natural Virtue in Aristotle’s Ethics
Talk Abstract
Aristotle thinks that justice is, like all the other virtues, a natural virtue. What does this mean? How does he accommodate its connection to and dependence upon convention, agreements, and laws – the sorts of facts that would seem to make it an “artificial” virtue, in Hume’s words?
