Professor Tsouna will be delivering a lecture series on Plato's Republic at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris. The dates and subjects are as follows:
Monday, 13 May, 5:00-7:00 pm: 'Part I: Contextualising Republic 8-9: the structure, content, and characters of the story of civic and human decline. Part Two: Timocracy, Oligarchy, and the corresponding human types'.
Wednesday, 15 May, 10:00-12 noon: 'Is there such a thing as defective goodness?'
Wednesday, 22 May, 5:00 - 7:00 pm: 'Republic 8 on democracy, freedom, and the rule of law'.
Thursday, 23 May, 5:00 - 7:00 pm.: 'Republic 8-9 on tyranny and the tyrant. Epilogue: the literary genre of the story of decline and Plato's philosophical objectives'.
May 16, 2024 - 1:00pm