November 20, 2025. 4:30PM – 06:00PM CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St. S020

Speaker: Alessandro Carrera, University of Houston

Discussant: Martin Puchner, Harvard University

Plato’s Republic has shaped how we think about politics, ethics, and justice for more than two millennia. In On Political Virtue: Plato’s Republic and the Politics of Desire, the Italian philosopher Carlo Sini reinterprets this foundational dialogue in a strikingly original way. Rather than treating it as a straightforward defense of reason or ideal governance, Sini reads Plato’s work as a theatrical piece. Alessandro Carrera, the book’s editor and translator, will guide us through Sini’s provocative re-reading of Plato.

https://mahindrahumanities.harvard.edu/event/staging-political-virtue-platos-republic-and-drama-desire