Explorations in Ancient and Modern Philosophy: Volume 3

Collects important studies on Plato and his subsequent reception and presents hitherto unpublished lectures, 'The Archaeology of Feeling'.

Myles Burnyeat (Author), Carol Atack (Prepared for publication by), Malcolm Schofield (Prepared for publication by), David Sedley (Prepared for publication by)

9781316517932, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 31 March 2022

500 pages
23.5 x 15.5 x 3 cm, 0.81 kg

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 The volume also includes hitherto unpublished lectures, 'The Archaeology of Feeling', on the ancient origins of some key modern philosophical and psychological concepts.

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.

Subject Areas: Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500 [HPCA], Philosophy [HP], Ancient history: to c 500 CE [HBLA]