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Diego De Brasi is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Marburg, Germany. His main research interests are Plato’s political thought and the poetics of the dialogue form, Judaic-Hellenistic literature, ancient biology and Patristic anthropology. He is the author of L’immagine di Sparta nei dialoghi platonici. Il giudizio di un filosofo su una (presunta) pólis modello (2013) and the editor, with Sabine Föllinger, of Anthropologie in Antike und Gegenwart. Biologische und philosophische Entwürfe vom Menschen (2015).Marko J. Fuchs is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bamberg, Germany. His areas of specialization are ethics (with a particular focus on classical, mediaeval and modern theories of justice, action theory, and classical and modern theories of friendship), classical philosophy of self, metaphysics, classical and mediaeval Aristotelianism, and history of philosophy. He is the author of Sum und cogito – Grundfiguren zeitlichen Selbstseins bei Augustinus und Descartes (2010) and Gerechtigkeit als allgemeine Tugend. Die Rezeption der aristotelischen Gerechtigkeitstheorie im Mittelalter und das Problem des ethischen Universalismus (2016).