Giovanni Ferrari

British-American philosopher at Berkeley and Cambridge who is a leading interpreter of Plato's Republic — and whose City and Soul in Plato's Republic is a major contribution to Platonic scholarship — making him directly relevant to Jonathan Bi's Plato discussions.

Argued that the parallel between city and soul in Plato's Republic should not be read as a simple analogy but as a more complex methodological device — the city is a 'larger letters' version of the soul that makes visible structural features difficult to discern at the individual level.