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My primary interest is Ancient philosophy with a special focus on Plato and Aristotle. I am also interested in Ethics and Political Philosophy in general.
I graduated in 2011 at Aachen University (Germany) with a thesis on the Definition of Man as Rational Animal (zoon logon echon) in Aristotle. I am now a Ph.D. student at Bonn University (Germany) where I am writing my dissertation on Aristotle’s notion of Education (paideia) in his ethical writings.