Dimitri El Murr is a professor of ancient philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at École normale supérieure – PSL in Paris, France. His research area focuses on ancient philosophy, especially Socrates, Plato, and political Platonism in antiquity and beyond. He is the author of L’Amitié (2001), a collection of texts on the philosophy of friendship, and Savoir et gouverner: Essai sur la science politique platonicienne (2014). He has edited or co-edited several publications, including La Mesure du savoir: Études sur le Théétète (2013), The Platonic Art of Philosophy (2013), Les philosophes faces au vice, de Socrate à Augustin (2020), and Kant et Platon. Lectures, confrontations, héritages (2022). He is currently working on a monograph on Plato’s theory of friendship.
In Spring 2027, El Murr will be a Class of 1932 Long-Term Visiting Fellow in the Humanities Council and Department of Philosophy. He will teach a seminar on Plato’s conception of friendship (philia), exploring central questions about Plato’s ethics, politics, and the psychology of love.
