# Philosophy, Politics, and the Possible: Plato's Seventh Letter in Dialogue with the Republic

Philosophy, Politics, and the Possible: Plato's Seventh Letter in Dialogue with the Republic at Bard College, Thursday 29 October 2026, 19:30.

- Venue: Bard College
- With: Schuyler Curriden
- Go to page: https://berlin.bard.edu/events/philosophy-politics-and-the-possible-platos-seventh-letter-in-dialogue-with-the-republic

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A lecture on Plato's much debated Seventh Letter and its relation to the Republic. The speaker is Schuyler Curriden, an alumnus of Bard College Berlin who now studies Ancient Greek philosophy at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He presents Plato's failed attempt to convert the Syracusan tyrant Dionysius II to philosophy and the resulting limits of theory and education in the political realm. With these limits in mind, the feasibility of the Republic's political program is reevaluated.

## Dates

- Thursday 29 October 19:30 — Bard College

Written by a model, sources: [berlin.bard.edu](https://berlin.bard.edu/events/philosophy-politics-and-the-possible-platos-seventh-letter-in-dialogue-with-the-republic)

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