Myles Burnyeat
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3866165 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Myles Burnyeat |
| NOMBRES | Myles |
| APELLIDO | Burnyeat |
| FIRMA | BURNYEAT M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Cambridge |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 65 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 55 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 65 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1962 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Explorations in Ancient and Modern Philosophy
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 ne…
Plato on why mathematics is good for the soul
Anyone who has read Plato’s Republic knows it has a lot to say about mathematics. But why? I shall not be satisfied with the answer that the future rulers of the ideal city are to be educated in mathematics, so Plato is bound to give some space to the subject. I want to know why the rulers are to be educated in mathematics. More pointedly, why are they required to study so much mathematics, for so long?
Enthymeme
Justice writ large and small inRepublic4
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Dramatic Aspects of Plato's Protagoras
In the course of its 53 Stephanus pages Plato's Protagoras uses the verb διαλέγεσθαι 32 times: a frequency considerably greater than that of any other dialogue. The next largest total is 21 occurrences in the Theaetetus (68 Stephanus pages). In the vast bulk of the Republic διαλέγεσθαι occurs just 20 times over 294 Stephanus pages. The ratios are striking. In the Protagoras the verb turns up on average once every 1.65 Stephanus pages; in the Thea…
Platonism and mathematics
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Can the sceptic live his scepticism?
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Protagoras and self-refutation in Plato's Theaetetus
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Did the ancient Greeks have the concept of human rights?
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Aristotle on understanding knowledge
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Aristotle on learning to be good
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Explorations in Ancient and Modern Philosophy
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, an…
Explorations in Ancient and Modern Philosophy
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, an…
Sense of the Past
From Protagoras to Aristotle
From Protagoras to Aristotle
Kinēsis Vs. Energeia
We are to discuss what is now one of the most famous passages in Aristotle: Metaphysics Θ 6, 1048b18–35, on the distinction between and. The Passage, as I shall capitalize it, has been endlessly analysed by philosophical enthusiasts. It is a particular favourite with those trained in analytic philosophy. But few of these enthusiasts have attempted to explain how it fits into the overall programme of U.2 Ignoring context is usually a fault. But no…
Maieusis
"Maieusis pays tribute to the highly influential work of Myles Burnyeat, whose contributions to the study of ancient philosophy have done much to enhance the profile of the subject a round the world. What is distinctive about this work is his is his capacity to deepen our understanding of the relation between ancient and modern thought, and to combine the best of contemporary philosophy - its insights as well as its rigour - with a deep sensitivi…
The Truth of Tripartition. In Memoriam
Platonism in the Bible
Let me begin with the customary modest disclaimers. About the Book of Exodus I have nothing to say. I shall refer to the narrative, but on scholarly matters my ignorance is total. About Numenius my ignorance is extensive, but compensated for by some opinions—opinions about how he responded to a famous passage in Exodus, where God reveals his name to Moses from the burning bush: ‘I am that I am’.
Archytas and Optics
Argument This paper is detective work. I aim to show that the brilliant Pythagorean mathematician Archytas of Tarentum was the founder of ancient Greek mathematical optics. The evidence is indirect. (1) A fragment of Aristotle preserved in Iamblichus is one of two doxographical notices to mention Pythagorean work in optics. (2) Apuleius credits Archytas with a theory of visual rays which saves the principle that the angle of reflection is equal t…
Idealism and Greek Philosophy
It is a standing temptation for philosophers to find anticipations of their own views in the great thinkers of the past, but few have been so bold in the search for precursors, and so utterly mistaken, as Berkeley when he claimed Plato and Aristotle as allies to his immaterialist idealism. In Siris: A Chain of Philosophical Reflexions and Inquiries Concerning the Virtues of Tar-Water , which Berkeley published in his old age in 1744, he reviews t…
Plato's Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito Critical Essays
Plato's Euthyrphro, Apology, andCrito portray Socrates' words and deeds during his trial for disbelieving in the Gods of Athens and corrupting the Athenian youth, and constitute a defense of the man Socrates and of his way of life, the philosophic life. The twelve essays in the volume, written by leading classical philosophers, investigate various aspects of these works of Plato, including the significance of Plato's characters, Socrates's revolu…
Philosophy as It Is
Aristotle's divine intellect
The 2008 Aquinas Lecture, Aristotle's Divine Intellect, was delivered on Sunday, February 24, 2008, by Myles F. Burnyeat, Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford University, and Honorary Fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge University.
Plato on the Grammar of Perceiving
The question contrasts two ways of expressing the role of the sense organ in perception. In one the expression referring to the sense organ is put into the dative case (let us call this the ‘with’ idiom); the other is a construction with the preposition δiá (‘through’) governing the genitive case of the word for the sense organ (let us call this the ‘through’ idiom)
Postscript on silent reading
Protagoras and Self-Refutation in Plato's Theaetetus
Idealism and Greek Philosophy
Refutation de l'assertion de Berkeley posant les philosophes grecs antiques comme les precurseurs de son idealisme: en fait ni Platon, ni Aristote, ni les Neo-Platoniciens, ni les Sceptiques ne remettent en cause la realite du monde exterieur. Le premier a le faire est Descartes| cette nouveaute est liee chez lui a celle d'autres positions: l'acces a la verite dans le seul domaine de l'experience subjective| la prise en consideration de la connai…
The Philosophical Sense of Theaetetus' Mathematics
Socratic Midwifery, Platonic Inspiration
Journal Article SOCRATIC MIDWIFERY, PLATONIC INSPIRATION Get access M.F. Burnyeat M.F. Burnyeat University College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 24, Issue 1, December 1977, Pages 7–16, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1977.tb00363.x Published: 12 March 2010
Protagoras and Self-Refutation in Later Greek Philosophy
If a philosophical argument is worth attention, so is its history. Traces it has left in the thought of philosophers who have concerned themselves with it have the historical import they do in part because they reveal aspects, often unexpected ones, of the argument's philosophical interest and significance. Such is the case, at any rate, with the argument I want to investigate here. This is an argument directed against Protagoras, the most famous…
The Material and Sources of Plato's Dream
In attempting to show that this claim is ill-founded I shall for the most part be concerned with matters peripheral to the interpretation of the Dream itself, but the discussion may be useful as a prolegomenon to an interpretation which locates the Dream section firmly within Plato's own philosophic concerns instead of seeking to account for it wholly or partly in terms of alien sources
Methodology, Philology, and Philosophy
Dramatic Aspects of Plato's Protagoras
In the course of its 53 Stephanus pages Plato's Protagoras uses the verb διαλέγεσθαι 32 times: a frequency considerably greater than that of any other dialogue. The next largest total is 21 occurrences in the Theaetetus (68 Stephanus pages). In the vast bulk of the Republic διαλέγεσθαι occurs just 20 times over 294 Stephanus pages. The ratios are striking. In the Protagoras the verb turns up on average once every 1.65 Stephanus pages; in the Thea…
Archytas and Optics
Argument This paper is detective work. I aim to show that the brilliant Pythagorean mathematician Archytas of Tarentum was the founder of ancient Greek mathematical optics. The evidence is indirect. (1) A fragment of Aristotle preserved in Iamblichus is one of two doxographical notices to mention Pythagorean work in optics. (2) Apuleius credits Archytas with a theory of visual rays which saves the principle that the angle of reflection is equal t…
Time and Pythagorean Religion
It is, I think, a fair presumption to suppose that there was some bond uniting all the different aspects of Pythagoras' thought, a bond strong enough to satisfy Pythagoras himself, but loose enough for the to be able, later, to cast off the religious and mystical doctrines without endangering the rest
The Material and Sources of Plato's Dream
In attempting to show that this claim is ill-founded I shall for the most part be concerned with matters peripheral to the interpretation of the Dream itself, but the discussion may be useful as a prolegomenon to an interpretation which locates the Dream section firmly within Plato's own philosophic concerns instead of seeking to account for it wholly or partly in terms of alien sources
Play and Pleasure
Journal Article Play and Pleasure Get access Nancy Gayer, Nancy Gayer Sidney Webb College, London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar M F Burnyeat M F Burnyeat London University College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 5, Issue 1, January 1971, Pages 29–36, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9752.1971.tb00446.x Published: 30 …
Protagoras and Self-Refutation in Plato's Theaetetus
Protagoras and Self-Refutation in Later Greek Philosophy
If a philosophical argument is worth attention, so is its history. Traces it has left in the thought of philosophers who have concerned themselves with it have the historical import they do in part because they reveal aspects, often unexpected ones, of the argument's philosophical interest and significance. Such is the case, at any rate, with the argument I want to investigate here. This is an argument directed against Protagoras, the most famous…
Plato on the Grammar of Perceiving
The question contrasts two ways of expressing the role of the sense organ in perception. In one the expression referring to the sense organ is put into the dative case (let us call this the ‘with’ idiom); the other is a construction with the preposition δiá (‘through’) governing the genitive case of the word for the sense organ (let us call this the ‘through’ idiom)
Examples in Epistemology
Theaetetus, asked what knowledge is, replies that geometry and the other mathematical disciplines are knowledge, and so are crafts like cobbling. Socrates points out that it does not help him to be told how many kinds of knowledge there are when his problem is to know what knowledge itself is, what it means to call geometry or a craft knowledge in the first place—he insists on the generality of his question in the way he often does when his inter…
Socratic Midwifery, Platonic Inspiration
Journal Article SOCRATIC MIDWIFERY, PLATONIC INSPIRATION Get access M.F. Burnyeat M.F. Burnyeat University College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 24, Issue 1, December 1977, Pages 7–16, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1977.tb00363.x Published: 12 March 2010
Plato on Knowledge and Reality
Reason and Human Good in Aristotle
The Philosophical Sense of Theaetetus' Mathematics
Methodology, Philology, and Philosophy
Aristotle on Learning to Be Good
Socrates and the Jury
M. F. Burnyeat, Jonathan Barnes; Socrates and the Jury: Paradoxes in Plato's Distinction Between Knowledge and True Belief, Aristotelian Society Supplement
Tranquility Without a Stop
Translation at this stage would be premature, but three variants in line 3 deserve notice, (a) Bury (iii.394) writes (b) Natorp (p. 292), followed by Brochard (p. 62 n. 4), suggested (which would yield a meiouric line), (c) Wachsmuth (p. 22) prints a colon instead of a comma after It is not surprising that line 3 has attracted emendation. As it stands, it lacks a verb and has to modify an understood existential
A History of Greek Philosophy, Volume V
Idealism and Greek Philosophy
It is a standing temptation for philosophers to find anticipations of their own views in the great thinkers of the past, but few have been so bold in the search for precursors, and so utterly mistaken, as Berkeley when he claimed Plato and Aristotle as allies to his immaterialist idealism. In Siris: A Chain of Philosophical Reflexions and Inquiries Concerning the Virtues of Tar-Water , which Berkeley published in his old age in 1744, he reviews t…
Gods and heaps
The ancients were already well aware that the sorites is not just about heaps. It brings into question the very existence of the gods, or at least the rationality of religious belief. If modern philosophers of language (who in recent years have been much preoccupied with the sorites paradox) seldom know this, a magisterial paper by Jonathan Barnes has now made clear the range and richness of the ancient material on the subject. Some of this mater…
Idealism and Greek Philosophy
Refutation de l'assertion de Berkeley posant les philosophes grecs antiques comme les precurseurs de son idealisme: en fait ni Platon, ni Aristote, ni les Neo-Platoniciens, ni les Sceptiques ne remettent en cause la realite du monde exterieur. Le premier a le faire est Descartes| cette nouveaute est liee chez lui a celle d'autres positions: l'acces a la verite dans le seul domaine de l'experience subjective| la prise en consideration de la connai…
Notes on Book Zeta of Aristotle's Metaphysics
Doubt and Dogmatism
A recent revival of interest has taken place in the Epicureans, Stoics and Sceptics, their theories and problems, and the lively debates that went on between them in ancient Greece. This study provides a philosophical introduction to the epistemological and metaphysical debates in which these Hellenistic thinkers marked out for philosophy some of its central concerns. In the first chapter David Sedley introduces the major thinkers of the period i…
The sceptic in his place and time
Nowadays, if a philosopher finds he cannot answer the philosophical question 'What is time?' or 'Is time real?', he applies for a research grant to work on the problem during next year's sabbatical. He does not suppose that the arrival of next year is actually in doubt. Alternatively, he may agree that any puzzlement about the nature of time, or any argument for doubting the reality of time, is in fact a puzzlement about, or an argument for doubt…
The Skeptical Tradition
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access The Skeptical Tradition. Edited By M. Burnyeat (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983. Pp. 450. Price $42.00, pb. $11.95) Theodore Scaltsas Theodore Scaltsas University of Edinburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 38, Issue 150, January 1988, Pages 130–131, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220277 Published: 01 January 1988
Notes on Eta and Theta of Aristotle's Metaphysics
The Theaetetus of Plato
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