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Explorations in Ancient and Modern Philosophy: Volume 3 Myles Burnyeat (All Souls College, Oxford)

Explorations in Ancient and Modern Philosophy: Volume 3 By Myles Burnyeat (All Souls College, Oxford)

Explorations in Ancient and Modern Philosophy: Volume 3 by Myles Burnyeat (All Souls College, Oxford)


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Collects important papers, some previously unpublished, written by one of the greatest modern scholars of ancient philosophy. Volume 3 introduces Plato and the Republic, explains his importance to John Stuart Mill, and shows how ancient philosophical thinking can be applied to contemporary questions about key philosophical and psychological topics.

Explorations in Ancient and Modern Philosophy: Volume 3 Summary

Explorations in Ancient and Modern Philosophy: Volume 3 by Myles Burnyeat (All Souls College, Oxford)

Myles Burnyeat (19392019) was a major figure in the study of ancient Greek philosophy during the last decades of the twentieth century and the first of this. After teaching positions in London and Cambridge, where he became Laurence Professor, in 1996 he took up a Senior Research Fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford, from which he retired in 2006. In 2012 he published two volumes collecting essays dating from before the move to Oxford. Two new posthumously published volumes bring together essays from his years at All Souls and his retirement. The main body of Volume 3 presents studies written for a wide readership, first on Plato's Republic and then on the reading and interpretation of Plato in subsequent periods, particularly in nineteenth-century Britain. The volume also includes hitherto unpublished lectures, 'The Archaeology of Feeling', on the ancient origins of some key modern philosophical and psychological concepts.

About Myles Burnyeat (All Souls College, Oxford)

Myles Burnyeat was formerly Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. Carol Atack is a Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge. She is the author of The Discourse of Kingship in Classical Greece (2020) and an associate editor of Polis. She previously worked with Myles Burnyeat in the preparation of The Pseudo-Platonic Seventh Letter (2015). Malcolm Schofield is Emeritus Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St John's College. He was co-editor with Myles Burnyeat and Jonathan Barnes of Doubt and Dogmatism (1980), the first volume of the published proceedings of a series of triennial conferences on Hellenistic philosophy that continues to the present. His most recent book is a survey of Cicero's political thought (2021). David Sedley is Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Christ's College. He was an editor of Classical Quarterly and Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy. His books include (with A.A. Long) The Hellenistic Philosophers (Cambridge, 1987) and Creationism and its Critics in Antiquity (2007).

Table of Contents

Introduction; Part I. The Republic; 1. Plato on why mathematics is good for the soul; 2. Long walk to wisdom; 3. The truth of tripartition; 4. Plato and the dairy-maids: the distribution of happiness inside and outside the ideal city of the Republic; 5. Justice writ large and small in Republic IV; 6. Fathers and sons in Plato's Republic and Philebus; 7. By the Dog; 8. Culture and society in Plato's Republic; Part II. The Past in the Present; 9. Plato; 10. James Mill on Thomas Taylor's Plato; 11. What was 'the common arrangement'? An inquiry into John Stuart Mill's boyhood reading of Plato; 12. The past in the present: Plato as educator of nineteenth-century Britain; Appendix: The Archaeology of Feeling.

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NPB9781316517932
9781316517932
1316517934
Explorations in Ancient and Modern Philosophy: Volume 3 by Myles Burnyeat (All Souls College, Oxford)
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Hardback
Cambridge University Press
2022-03-31
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