History Lessons - Gennaro Carillo – “Plato's Republic: The Power of Ideas”

Gennaro Carillo inaugurates the "History Lessons" series at the Auditorium Parco della Musica with a lecture dedicated to "Plato's Republic: The Power of Ideas." The lecture analyzes the work written by Plato around 380 BC, about twenty years after the death of Socrates, highlighting how the rigor of historical reconstruction is not the author's primary concern, but rather a philosophical response to the trauma of a factionalized Athens following its final defeat by Sparta in 404 BC. In The Republic, Plato aims to establish a philosophical foundation for politics, looking at the historical period in which he lived while simultaneously speaking to our own.

Gennaro Carillo teaches History of Political Thought at the Suor Orsola Benincasa University of Naples.