N R Murphy

Biographic Data

ID1172676
NAMEN R Murphy
GIVEN NAMESN R
FAMILY NAMEMurphy
SIGNATUREMURPHY N R
AFFILIATIONSManchester College
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS6
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1932
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1955
H-INDEX1

  • The Interpretation of Plato's Republic

    M D C Tait, N R MurphyARTICLEPhoenix1955

  • The Interpretation of Plato's Republic

    Helen F North, Helen North et al.ARTICLEThe Philosophical Review1954

  • The Interpretation of Plato's `Republic

    R C Cross, N R MurphyARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly1953

    Journal Article Book Reviews Get access The Interpretation of Plato’s ‘Republic’. By N. R. Murphy. (Oxford : Clarendon Press. 1951. Pp. viii + 247. Price 18s). R. C. Cross R. C. Cross Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 3, Issue 11, April 1953, Pages 182–183, https://doi.org/10.2307/2216886 Published: 01 April 1953

  • The ‘Comparison of Lives’ in Plato's Philebus

    Open AccessN R MurphyARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly1938

    The Republic represents the good life as some sort of harmony or composition between the different interests of which the threefold nature of the soul makes it capable. The rational factor, τ λολιστικν, not only chooses which impulses shall be satisfied and which rejected but is credited also with impulses of its own, such as the desire for knowledge, to the importance of which the Republic testifies by various strands of argument. But in Plato's…

  • Plato, Parmenides 129 and Republic 475–480

    Open AccessN R MurphyARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly1937Cited by: 1

    The reply which Socrates makes to Zeno in the Parmenides and that which he makes to the φιλοθɛ⋯μονɛς in the Republic are perhaps connected chiefly by the fact that a false interpretation of either might prejudice the other, but it seems convenient to take them together for that reason even if they have not much actual connection in themselves. Both are controversial, and in the case of Socrates' reply to Zeno, no re-statement of it could be secur…

  • The Δεύτερος Πλος in the Phaedo

    Open AccessN R MurphyARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly1936Cited by: 1

    In this paper I am merely analysing the meaning of Phaedo 99–107 without discussing either its historical significance or its value as a contribution to the logic of science. The paper attempts in fact to be little more than a paraphrase of the Greek, which aims only at accuracy of statement, but I am adding in the third section a note on the relation of this passage to the discussion of method in Republic VI, mainly in order to minimize its rele…

  • Back to the Cave

    Open AccessN R MurphyARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly1934Cited by: 3

    In Professor Ferguson's renewed study (above, pp. 190–210) of these similes he has introduced a very detailed and careful analysis of Plato's analogies in order to explain and support his interpretation. He has also attacked the view which I put forward in 1932, and I should like to say something in defence of that view, not in any polemical spirit, but from a perhaps too obstinate belief that my reading of the passage does rest on solid foundati…

  • The ‘Simile Of Light’ In Plato'S Republic

    Open AccessN R MurphyARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly1932Cited by: 1

    At the end of Republic VI. Socrates compares the Good with the sun as a cause both of existence and intelligibility. Afterwards, when he continues and expands this comparison, the symbolism becomes so complex that the interpretation of almost every part of it is in dispute. We start with the contrast of light and darkness; to this is next added the contrast of image and original, and also of up and down along a vertical line; in the allegory of t…