Miquel Solans has doctorate in the Institute for Culture and Society (ICS) with the thesis 'The knowledge of the good in Plato. A Study of the Moral Knowledge of Apology to the Republic'. In it, he has analysed the knowledge of the good in Plantón and has concluded that "it is not a question of theoretical or technical knowledge, but of a dialectical knowledge of a theoretical and practical-dispositional nature".

From this statement it follows that the good "supposes the theoretical reflection on principles and brings the ability to know when such principles are applied in the internship". To arrive at this idea, Miquel Solans has investigated the early and middle dialogues of the Greek philosopher (from Apology to Republic).

The study focuses especially on the analysis of the elements that Plato uses to characterize the "knowledge that allows one to direct one's life wisely, that is, to achieve the fullness of life," says Solans.

The first chapter is based on Apology and Crito, focusing on Socrates, the limits of his knowledge, the care of the soul and the importance of the search for justice. The second chapter deals with moral knowledge in Euthydemus, Carmides and Hipias Minor and how moral knowledge is irreducible to a technical knowledge .

The third chapter analyzes the dialogues Protagoras and Gorgias. In the first Solans has examined how Socrates considers the good within virtue, and in the second he analyzes the nature of moral knowledge. Finally, the fourth chapter is based on books I to VII of Republic and analyzes the relationship between justice and the human soul, as well as the access to the good.

Stay and congresses abroad

In the framework of his doctorate, Miquel Solans made a stay at the Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms of the University of Bonn (Germany) between April 2015 and January 2016. There he worked with the philosopher Theo Kobusch, an expert on Philosophy Ancient and Medieval, who has published a German translation of Plato's dialogue Gorgias, including philosophical commentaries. This was made possible by a scholarship from research granted by the German Academic exchange Service (DAAD).

In addition, during the years in which he has been doing his thesis he has presented papers in some international congresses in Rome, Athens, Amsterdam and Lisbon.