Explorations in ancient and modern philosophy /

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Author / Creator:	Burnyeat, Myles, author.
Imprint:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Description:	2 volumes ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Philosophy, Ancient. Philosophy, Modern. Philosophy, Ancient. Philosophy, Modern. Philosophy, Ancient. Philosophy, Modern.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10162038

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ISBN:	9781107400061 (2 vol. set) 1107400066 (2 vol. set) 9780521750721 (v. 1) 0521750725 (v. 1) 9780521750738 (v. 2) 0521750733 (v. 2)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	Vols. 1-2. "M.F. Burnyeat taught for 14 years in the Philosophy Department of University College London, then for 18 years in the Classics Faculty at Cambridge, 12 of them as the Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy, before migrating to Oxford in 1996 to become a Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy at All Souls College. The studies, articles and reviews collected in these two volumes of Explorations in Ancient and Modern Philosophy were all written, and all but two published, before that decisive change. Whether designed for a scholarly audience or for a wider public, they range from the Presocratics to Augustine, from Descartes and Bishop Berkeley to Wittgenstein and G.E. Moore. Their subject-matter falls under four main headings: Part I on Logic and Dialectic, Part II on Scepticism Ancient and Modern, Part III on Knowledge, Part IV on Philosophy and the Good Life. The title 'Explorations' well expresses Burnyeat's ability to discover new aspects of familiar texts, new ways of solving old problems. In his hands the history of philosophy becomes itself a philosophical activity."--Publisher's description.

Table of Contents:

Volume 1. Preface
Introduction
Part I. Logic and Dialectic
1. Protagoras and self-refutation in later Greek philosophy
2. Protagoras and self-refutation in Plato's Theaetetus
3. The upside-down back-to-front sceptic of Lucretius IV.472
4. Antipater and self-refutation: elusive arguments in Cicero's Academica
5. Gods and heaps
6. The origins of non-deductive inference
7. Enthymeme: Aristotle on the logic of persuasion
Part II. Scepticism Ancient and Modern
8. Can the sceptic live his scepticism?
9. Tranquillity without a stop: Timon, frag. 68
10. Idealism and Greek philosophy: what Descartes saw and Berkeley missed
11. Conflicting appearances
12. The sceptic in his place and time
13. Dissoi logoi
Bibliography
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

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