Mathematics in Platos Republic by Sarah Broadie
A discussion of Platos evaluation of mathematics as an intellectual discipline, and his reasons for training his philosopher-rulers to be mathematical experts.
Mathematics in Platos Republic
Mathematics in Platos Republic
Summary
A discussion of Plato's evaluation of mathematics as an intellectual discipline, and his reasons for training his philosopher-rulers to be mathematical experts.
Mathematics in Platos Republic Summary
About Sarah Broadie
Sarah Jean Broadie OBE FBA FRSE is currently Professor of Philosophy and Wardlaw Professor at the University of St Andrews. Broadies work in ancient philosophy shows how ancient philosophers, particularly Aristotle and Plato, shed light on perennial problems in metaphysics and ethics.
Professor Broadie taught at the Universities of Edinburgh, Texas at Austin, Yale, Rutgers, and Princeton, before coming to St Andrews in 200. She is an Honorary Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford and was Keeling Scholar in Residence at University College London, Gower Street, London from 2018-2019.
Her books include Nature, Change, and Agency in Aristotle's Physics: a philosophical study (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1984), Passage and Possibility: a study of Aristotle's modal concepts (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1984), Ethics with Aristotle (Oxford University Press, New York, 1991), Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: Philosophical Introduction and Commentary, with a new translation by Christopher Rowe (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2002), a collection of her essays Aristotle and Beyond (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), Nature and Divinity in Platos Timaeus (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), and a translation of Philoponus: On Aristotle Physics 4.10-14 (Bristol: Bristol Classical Press, 2011).
Professor Broadie taught at the Universities of Edinburgh, Texas at Austin, Yale, Rutgers, and Princeton, before coming to St Andrews in 200. She is an Honorary Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford and was Keeling Scholar in Residence at University College London, Gower Street, London from 2018-2019.
Her books include Nature, Change, and Agency in Aristotle's Physics: a philosophical study (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1984), Passage and Possibility: a study of Aristotle's modal concepts (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1984), Ethics with Aristotle (Oxford University Press, New York, 1991), Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: Philosophical Introduction and Commentary, with a new translation by Christopher Rowe (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2002), a collection of her essays Aristotle and Beyond (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), Nature and Divinity in Platos Timaeus (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), and a translation of Philoponus: On Aristotle Physics 4.10-14 (Bristol: Bristol Classical Press, 2011).
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Mathematics in Platos Republic by Sarah Broadie
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Marquette University Press
2020-05-30
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