M F Burnyeat

Explorations in Ancient and Modern Philosophy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The second of two volumes collecting the published work up to 2000 one of the greatest living scholars of ancient philosophy alive today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 154mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 719g
• ISBN-13: 9780521750738
• ISBN-10: 0521750733
• Artikelnr.: 33109663

Autorenporträt

M. F. Burnyeat is an Honorary Fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge, and an Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He is also a Fellow of the British Academy and a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was awarded a CBE for his services to scholarship in 2007.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Knowledge: 1. Examples in epistemology: Socrates, Theaetetus and G. E. Moore
2. Socratic midwifery, Platonic inspiration
3. The philosophical sense of Theaetetus' mathematics
4. Plato on the grammar of perceiving
5. Socrates and the jury: paradoxes in Plato's distinction between knowledge and true belief
6. Aristotle on understanding knowledge
7. Platonism and mathematics: a prelude to discussion
8. Wittgenstein and Augustine, De magistro
Part II. Philosophy and the Good Life: 9. Message from Heraclitus
10. Virtues in action
11. The impiety of Socrates
12. The passion of reason in Plato's Phaedrus
13. Aristotle on learning to be good
14. Did the ancient Greeks have the concept of human rights?
15. Sphinx without a secret
16. First words
Bibliography.