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Explorations in Ancient and Modern Philosophy

Volume 3

Myles Burnyeat, Carol Atack, Malcolm Schofield, David Sedley
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  • Date Published: December 2023
  • availability: Available
  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9781009048668

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  • Myles Burnyeat (1939–2019) 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 The volume also includes hitherto unpublished lectures, 'The Archaeology of Feeling', on the ancient origins of some key modern philosophical and psychological concepts.

    • Collects significant papers published in the later period of Myles Burnyeat's distinguished career
    • Volume 3 includes essays providing authoritative and accessible introductions to Plato's Republic, his mathematics, and his subsequent reception in nineteenth-century Britain
    • Includes the previously unpublished lecture series, 'The Archaeology of Feeling', which demonstrates the relevance of ancient philosophical approaches to contemporary problems
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    • Date Published: December 2023
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9781009048668
    • length: 458 pages
    • dimensions: 229 x 152 x 24 mm
    • weight: 0.66kg
    • availability: Available
  • 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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    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.

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    Carol Atack, Newnham College, Cambridge
    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, University of Cambridge
    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, University of Cambridge
    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).

    Contributors

    Myles Burnyeat, Carol Atack, Malcolm Schofield, David Sedley

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