Myles Burnyeat (Oxford All Souls College)

Explorations in Ancient and Modern Philosophy

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Produktbeschreibung

Collects important papers, some previously unpublished, written by one of the greatest modern scholars of ancient philosophy.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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 460
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 810g
• ISBN-13: 9781316517932
• ISBN-10: 1316517934
• Artikelnr.: 62429732

Autorenporträt

Myles Burnyeat was formerly Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

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.