Andre da Paz

Doctor (PhD, 2025) and Master (MPhil, 2019) in Philosophy at the Postgraduate Programme in Metaphysics at the University of Brasília, both funded by full Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel’s (CAPES) scholarships. Majored in History (2013), holding an Undergraduate Degree from the University Centre of United Metropolitan Faculties in São Paulo. Researcher at the Archai Unesco Chair ‘On the Plural Origins of the Western Thought’ (2017–) and at the Research Group Delphos ‘On Philosophy and Religion in Ancient Greece’ (2015–). Under the guidance of Ália Rodrigues (University of Coimbra, UCL London) and Rodolfo Lopes (University of Coimbra), proofread Archai Journal’s issues 22 (January, 2018), 23 (May, 2018), 24 (September, 2018). Moreover, proofread the books ‘Platão’ (University of Coimbra Press, 2018), ‘Philosophy and Religion in Ancient Greece’ (Universidad Pontifícia de Salamanca and Editorial Sindéresis, 2024), and Professor Gabriele Cornelli's (University of Brasilia) translation of Plato's 'Phaedo', edited by Penguin-Companhia Publishers. Translated ‘¿Que es la biologia sintética?’ (LiberArs, 2018), during a period at the Universidad de Concepción (2016) under the supervision of Sofía Valenzuela Águila (Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología, Conocimiento e Innovación, Chile). Later, under the supervision of Gabriele Cornelli (University of Brasilia), translated the book ‘Introduzione a Platone’ (il Mulino, 2021 / Paulus Editora, 2022), by Franco Ferrari; ‘Hybris, Ancient and Modern’ (2023), by Douglas Cairns. In addition, under the supervision of David Torrijos-Castrillejo (San Dámaso University), translated ‘Socrates and the Provident Divinity’ (2023), by Torrijos-Castrillejo and ‘Aristoteles: Does God Exist?’ (UPSA/Sindéresis, 2024) by José Antonio García-Lorente. Author of the scientific articles ‘The Parts and the Whole: the Insufficiency of ‘Pre-Socratic’ Discourses in Plato’s Symposium (Prometheus 35, 227-248); ‘Dialectical Mysteries: a Study on the Experience of Diotima’s Eros in Plato’s Symposium’ (Hypnos 46, 40-60); and ‘Initiation, Ritual, and Experience in the Eleusinian Mysteries and Plato’s Symposium: a Preliminary Analysis’ (OQNFP 30, 44-64). Moreover, authored the book chapters ‘Ethics in the Time of the Greeks: the Art of a Life Worth living’ (LiberArs, 2018) and ‘How to Tame Your Wolf: Socrates vs Thrasymachus’ (Universidad Pontifícia de Salamanca and Editorial Sindéresis, 2024). Furthermore, edited the book ‘Philosophy and Religion in Ancient Greece’, in partnership with David Torrijos-Castrillejo (San Dámaso University), Jorge Luis Gutiérrez (Delphos), Luiz Eduardo Freitas (University of São Paulo) and Pedro Maurício Garcia Dotto (University of São Paulo). Additionally, published 11 articles in newspapers and magazines, as well as articles and abstracts for conference proceedings. Presented 17 talks across 32 conferences, 20 of which he assisted with organising. All works are available at unb.academia.edu/AndredaPaz. Dedicates his work to classical studies and translation. From 2014 to 2016, he pursued his studies in Classical Greek Language at the Centre for Foreign Language Studies (NELE) at the University of São Paulo. Currently participates in the 'Laeta Lectio' at the Archai UNESCO Chair, where students and professors join in Classical Greek translation sessions. During the undergraduate course in a PIBIC programme (CNPq), the order of the speeches on Eros has been studied in Plato’s Symposium (https://bit.ly/PIBIC_Plato-symp). Thereafter, during the Master’s, the structure of the speeches on Eros received an immersion, in which the speeches were considered in light of their permanences and ruptures. The goal was to evaluate the extent to which this approach may help in our understanding of the Symposium as a whole (https://bit.ly/Mphil_Plato-symp). Lastly, worked on a doctoral dissertation on Plato's integrative approach with the Eleusinian Mysteries, analysing the extent to which Plato's transpositions of Eleusinian epiphany (ἐπόπτεια) align with or diverge from the philosophy proposed and presented by Diotima through the ἐποπτικά in Plato's “Symposium” (https://bit.ly/Philosophical-Mysteries-PhD).