Wenjin Liu

My research centers on Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, with a primary focus on Plato. My articles on ignorance in Plato’s Socratic dialogues and in the Republic—both published in Phronesis—form the backbone of my completed book manuscript (95,000 words), which is currently under revision after a manuscript workshop in May 2025. A short monograph (29,300 words) bridging the Hippocratic corpus and Plato’s political theory is forthcoming with the Cambridge Elements Series in Ancient Philosophy. Beyond these projects, I have begun developing a new line of research on love and care in ancient philosophy, with working papers on curiosity, civic friendship (forthcoming in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research), and care in Plato and Aristotle. I am also pursuing comparative work on the notion of harmony in Ancient Greek and Classical Chinese philosophy, including papers on genuine knowledge in the Zhuangzi and on curiosity in Confucianism.