Sarah Broadie
Biographic Data
| ID | 1012249 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Broadie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Broadie |
| SIGNATURE | BROADIE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of St Andrews |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 30 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Listening to Reason in Plato and Aristotle
When we are in a rational frame of mind we are ready to listen to reason (tautology). But if we are not in a rational frame of mind, how does reason (in this case presumably someone else’s reason or reasoning) get through to us? Should reason even try? But if reason simply gives up on us, isn’t it evading one of its great responsibilities, the responsibility to correct and to educate? If it accepts responsibility and refuses to give up, is it rat…
Plato's Sun-Like Good
Plato's Sun-Like Good is a revolutionary discussion of the Republic's philosopher-rulers, their dialectic, and their relation to the form of the good. With detailed arguments Sarah Broadie explains how, if we think of the form of the good as 'interrogative', we can re-conceive those central reference-points of Platonism in down-to-earth terms without loss to our sense of Plato's philosophical greatness. The book's main aims are: first, to show ho…
Practical Truth in Aristotle
Practical Truth in Aristotle
The Platonic Art of Philosophy
This is a collection of essays written by leading experts in honour of Christopher Rowe, and inspired by his groundbreaking work in the exegesis of Plato. The authors represent scholarly traditions which are sometimes very different in their approaches and interests, and so rarely brought into dialogue with each other. This volume, by contrast, aims to explore synergies between them. Key topics include: the literary unity of Plato's works; the pr…
Nature and Divinity in Plato's Timaeus
Plato's Timaeus is one of the most influential and challenging works of ancient philosophy to have come down to us. Sarah Broadie's rich and compelling study proposes new interpretations of major elements of the Timaeus, including the separate Demiurge, the cosmic 'beginning', the 'second mixing', the Receptacle and the Atlantis story. Broadie shows how Plato deploys the mythic themes of the Timaeus to convey fundamental philosophical insights an…
The Possibilities Of Being And Not-Being In De Caelo 1.11–12
In the stretch of text we know as De caelo 1.12, the question of the mutual entailment of geneton and phtharton is not broached straightaway. First comes a discussion, which is simply called 1 that starts from a question about the actual being and actual not-being of a thing that has the possibility of being and also the possibility of not-being. L 1 is followed by, a further stretch of argumentation, L 2 , in support of the main thesis. This cha…
Being, Nature, and Life in Aristotle
This volume of essays explores major connected themes in Aristotle's metaphysics, philosophy of nature, and ethics, especially themes related to essence, definition, teleology, activity, potentiality, and the highest good. The volume is united by the belief that all aspects of Aristotle's work need to be studied together if any one of the areas of thought is to be fully understood. Many of the papers were contributions to a conference at the Univ…
The Constitution of Agency
Nicomachean Ethics VII. 8-9 (115122)
This portion of NE VII studies the boundaries of akrasia and enkrateia. The overall aim is to distinguish these qualities from various ethical look-alikes, partly for the sake of a correct descriptive taxonomy, partly so as to provide solutions to certain dialectical puzzles, and partly (I assume) in order to sharpen or refine our everyday evaluations of human character and conduct, whether others ‘ or our own. These purposes are accomplished thr…
Aristotle and Beyond
Written over a period of thirty-five years, these essays, first published in 2007, explore the topics of causation, time, fate, determinism, natural teleology, different conceptions of the human soul, the idea of the highest good and the human significance of leisure. While most of the essays take as their starting-point some theme in Ancient Greek philosophy, they are meant not as exegesis but as distinctive and independent contributions to live…
Nature and craft in Aristotelian teleology
(1) It used quite commonly to be argued against Aristotelian teleology that this type of explanation founders for lack of a suitable psychological basis in most of the phenomena for which it was invoked. The objection was that it does not make sense to attempt to explain X as happening or existing in order that Y should happen or exist unless one assumes that the production of X and Y is guided by thoughts, desires or conscious purposes relating …
What should we mean by ‘the highest good’?
That the highest good is a severely abstract notion will not be disputed by anyone. If we find it a difficult idea to get hold of we might first want to blame the abstractness for our fumbling. But there is a less obvious source of difficulty, which I believe has not been discussed very much. It is that thinkers have wanted very different things from the idea. It has served many different functions in ethical theory. Yet historic battles over the…
Virtue and beyond in Plato and Aristotle
The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Philosophy
The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Philosophy is a wide-ranging 2003 introduction to the study of philosophy in the ancient world. A team of leading specialists surveys the developments of the period and evaluates a comprehensive series of major thinkers, ranging from Pythagoras to Epicurus. There are also separate chapters on how philosophy in the ancient world interacted with religion, literature and science, and a final chapter traces …
Aristotelian Piety
Aristotle seems to omit discussing the virtue piety. Such an omission should surprise us. Piety is not covertly dealt with under the more general heading of justice, nor under that of philia. But piety does make a veiled appearance at NE X.8, 1179a22-32. Many interpreters have refused to take this passage seriously, but this is shown to be a mistake
Aristotle
Soul and Body in Plato and Descartes
Although they are often grouped together in comparison with nondualist theories, Plato's soul–body dualism, and Descartes' mind-body dualism, are fundamentally different. The doctrines examined are those of the Phaedo and the Meditations. The main difference, from which others flow, lies in Plato's acceptance and Descartes' rejection of the assumption that the soul (= intellect) is identical with what animates the body.
Rational theology
Ancient Greek philosophy arose in a culture whose world had always teemed with divinities. "Everything is full of gods, "said Thales (Aristotle De an. 1.5, 411a8), and the earliest "theories of everything" were mythological panoramas such as Hesiod's Theogony, in which the genealogy of the gods is also a story about the evolution of the universe. Hence when certain Greeks began to think about the physical world in a philosophical way, they were c…
Aristotle's Elusive Summum Bonum
The philosophy of Aristotle (384–322, b.c.e. ) remains a beacon of our culture. But no part of Aristotle's work is more alive and compelling today than his contribution to ethics and political science — nor more relevant to the subject of the present volume. Political science, in his view, begins with ethics, and the primary task of ethics is to elucidate human flourishing . Aristotle brings to this topic a mind unsurpassed in the depth, keenness…
The Cambridge Companion to Early Greek Philosophy
The Western tradition of philosophy began in Greece with a cluster of thinkers often called the Presocratics, whose influence has been incalculable. They include the early Ionian cosmologists, Pythagoras, Heraclitus, the Eleatics (Parmenides, Melissus, and Zeno), Empedocles, Anaxagoras, the atomists and the sophists. All these thinkers are discussed in this 1999 volume both as individuals and collectively in chapters on rational theology, epistem…
Interpreting Aristotle’s Directions
In the course of examining practical wisdom in Nicomachean Ethics VI, Aristotle takes a good look at theoretical wisdom too. One of his reasons is completeness: the Ethics is mainly a study of human virtue, moral and intellectual, and Aristotle wants to cover every subdivision of the field. Then there is the need to prepare for subsequent arguments showing that even the best practical activities fail to qualify as consummate happiness, at least w…
Ethics with Aristotle
Taking Life Seriously
Aristotle's Perceptual Realism
Aristotelian Piety
Aristotle seems to omit discussing the virtue piety. Such an omission should surprise us. Piety is not covertly dealt with under the more general heading of justice, nor under that of philia. But piety does make a veiled appearance at NE X.8, 1179a22-32. Many interpreters have refused to take this passage seriously, but this is shown to be a mistake
Passage and possibility
Masterly ... She combines philosophical sophistication with an enviable ability to interpret the texts in a perceptive and illuminating way ... Will stimulate discussion for a long time to come.'--Times Literary Supplement
Nature, Craft and Phronesis in Aristotle
Aristotle’s Philosophy of Action
The Virtures of Aristotle
Aristotle's Perceptual Realism
Aristote et La question du monde
Ethics with Aristotle
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Ethics with Aristotle. By Sarah Broadie. (New York and Oxford: Oxford UP, 1991. Pp. xiii + 462. Price £45.00.) C. C. W. Taylor C. C. W. Taylor Corpus Christi College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 43, Issue 173, October 1993, Pages 529–532, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219996 Published: 01 October 1993
Ethics with Aristotle
Taking Life Seriously
Interpreting Aristotle’s Directions
In the course of examining practical wisdom in Nicomachean Ethics VI, Aristotle takes a good look at theoretical wisdom too. One of his reasons is completeness: the Ethics is mainly a study of human virtue, moral and intellectual, and Aristotle wants to cover every subdivision of the field. Then there is the need to prepare for subsequent arguments showing that even the best practical activities fail to qualify as consummate happiness, at least w…
Rational theology
Ancient Greek philosophy arose in a culture whose world had always teemed with divinities. "Everything is full of gods, "said Thales (Aristotle De an. 1.5, 411a8), and the earliest "theories of everything" were mythological panoramas such as Hesiod's Theogony, in which the genealogy of the gods is also a story about the evolution of the universe. Hence when certain Greeks began to think about the physical world in a philosophical way, they were c…
Aristotle's Elusive Summum Bonum
The philosophy of Aristotle (384–322, b.c.e. ) remains a beacon of our culture. But no part of Aristotle's work is more alive and compelling today than his contribution to ethics and political science — nor more relevant to the subject of the present volume. Political science, in his view, begins with ethics, and the primary task of ethics is to elucidate human flourishing . Aristotle brings to this topic a mind unsurpassed in the depth, keenness…
The Cambridge Companion to Early Greek Philosophy
The Western tradition of philosophy began in Greece with a cluster of thinkers often called the Presocratics, whose influence has been incalculable. They include the early Ionian cosmologists, Pythagoras, Heraclitus, the Eleatics (Parmenides, Melissus, and Zeno), Empedocles, Anaxagoras, the atomists and the sophists. All these thinkers are discussed in this 1999 volume both as individuals and collectively in chapters on rational theology, epistem…
Soul and Body in Plato and Descartes
Although they are often grouped together in comparison with nondualist theories, Plato's soul–body dualism, and Descartes' mind-body dualism, are fundamentally different. The doctrines examined are those of the Phaedo and the Meditations. The main difference, from which others flow, lies in Plato's acceptance and Descartes' rejection of the assumption that the soul (= intellect) is identical with what animates the body.
Aristotle
The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Philosophy
The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Philosophy is a wide-ranging 2003 introduction to the study of philosophy in the ancient world. A team of leading specialists surveys the developments of the period and evaluates a comprehensive series of major thinkers, ranging from Pythagoras to Epicurus. There are also separate chapters on how philosophy in the ancient world interacted with religion, literature and science, and a final chapter traces …
Aristotelian Piety
Aristotle seems to omit discussing the virtue piety. Such an omission should surprise us. Piety is not covertly dealt with under the more general heading of justice, nor under that of philia. But piety does make a veiled appearance at NE X.8, 1179a22-32. Many interpreters have refused to take this passage seriously, but this is shown to be a mistake
Virtue and beyond in Plato and Aristotle
Aristotle and Beyond
Written over a period of thirty-five years, these essays, first published in 2007, explore the topics of causation, time, fate, determinism, natural teleology, different conceptions of the human soul, the idea of the highest good and the human significance of leisure. While most of the essays take as their starting-point some theme in Ancient Greek philosophy, they are meant not as exegesis but as distinctive and independent contributions to live…
Nature and craft in Aristotelian teleology
(1) It used quite commonly to be argued against Aristotelian teleology that this type of explanation founders for lack of a suitable psychological basis in most of the phenomena for which it was invoked. The objection was that it does not make sense to attempt to explain X as happening or existing in order that Y should happen or exist unless one assumes that the production of X and Y is guided by thoughts, desires or conscious purposes relating …
What should we mean by ‘the highest good’?
That the highest good is a severely abstract notion will not be disputed by anyone. If we find it a difficult idea to get hold of we might first want to blame the abstractness for our fumbling. But there is a less obvious source of difficulty, which I believe has not been discussed very much. It is that thinkers have wanted very different things from the idea. It has served many different functions in ethical theory. Yet historic battles over the…
Nicomachean Ethics VII. 8-9 (115122)
This portion of NE VII studies the boundaries of akrasia and enkrateia. The overall aim is to distinguish these qualities from various ethical look-alikes, partly for the sake of a correct descriptive taxonomy, partly so as to provide solutions to certain dialectical puzzles, and partly (I assume) in order to sharpen or refine our everyday evaluations of human character and conduct, whether others ‘ or our own. These purposes are accomplished thr…
The Possibilities Of Being And Not-Being In De Caelo 1.11–12
In the stretch of text we know as De caelo 1.12, the question of the mutual entailment of geneton and phtharton is not broached straightaway. First comes a discussion, which is simply called 1 that starts from a question about the actual being and actual not-being of a thing that has the possibility of being and also the possibility of not-being. L 1 is followed by, a further stretch of argumentation, L 2 , in support of the main thesis. This cha…
Being, Nature, and Life in Aristotle
This volume of essays explores major connected themes in Aristotle's metaphysics, philosophy of nature, and ethics, especially themes related to essence, definition, teleology, activity, potentiality, and the highest good. The volume is united by the belief that all aspects of Aristotle's work need to be studied together if any one of the areas of thought is to be fully understood. Many of the papers were contributions to a conference at the Univ…
The Constitution of Agency
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