F M Cornford
Biographic Data
| ID | 3873950 |
|---|---|
| NAME | F M Cornford |
| GIVEN NAMES | F M |
| FAMILY NAME | Cornford |
| SIGNATURE | CORNFORD F M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1909 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Marginal Comment, A Memoir
Principium Sapientiae: The Origins of Greek Philosophical Thought
Principium Sapientiae
Principium Sapientiae. The Origins of Greek Philosophical Thought
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Principium Sapientiae. The Origins of Greek Philoaophical Thought. By F. M. Cornford. Edited by W. K. C. Guthrie. ( Cambridge University Press. 1952. Pp. viii + 271. Price 25s). J. L. Ackrill J. L. Ackrill Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 4, Issue 17, October 1954, Pages 378–379, https://doi.org/10.2307/2217383 Published: 01 October…
Principium Sapientiae: The Origins of Greek Philosophical Thought
The Unwritten Philosophy and Other Essays
The Unwritten Philosophy and Other Essays
Plato and Parmenides
Plato and Parmenides
Aristotle De Caelo 288a 2–9
Aristotle is asking why the heaven revolves in one direction rather than the other. His answer is based on his earlier proof that the Universe has a top and a bottom, a right and a left. The upper region, as the place of divinity, is prior or superior to the lower; so upward motion is prior to downward motion. Right is similarly prior and superior to left. The present problem can be solved by supposing that the world has also a front and a back, …
Iii.—the “Polytheism” of Plato: An Apology
Journal Article III.—THE “POLYTHEISM” OF PLATO: AN APOLOGY Get access F. M. CORNFORD F. M. CORNFORD Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mind, Volume XLVII, Issue 187, July 1938, Pages 321–330, https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/XLVII.187.321 Published: 01 July 1938
Plato's Commonwealth
A country so situated that its growth depends on sea-power and foreign trade heads an alliance against an emperor bent on adding a good part of Europe to his dominions. The emperor is defeated; and in an ample stretch of comparatively quiet years the champion of freedom finds opportunity to take the lead among its neighbours in the arts of peace. At home, democratic institutions are developed towards their logical completion; abroad, ambition is …
A New Fragment of Parmenides
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Innumerable Worlds in Presocratic Philosophy
Z eller argued that the ‘innumerable worlds’ mentioned in accounts of Anaximander's system must be an endless succession of single worlds, not (as in the Atomists' doctrine) an unlimited number of coexistent worlds scattered through infinite space, some always coming into being while others are passing away. Zeller pointed out that a succession of single worlds is grounded in the principles of the system. ‘Things perish into that from which they …
Parmenides' Two Ways
The object of this paper is to determine the relations between the two parts of Parmenides' poem: the Way of Truth, which deduces the necessary properties of a One Being, and the False Way, which contains a cosmogony based on ‘what seems to mortals, in which there is no true belief.’
Iii.—mathematics and Dialectic in the Republic Vi.—vii. (I.).
III.—MATHEMATICS AND DIALECTIC IN THE REPUBLIC VI.—VII. (I.). Get access F. M. CORNFORD F. M. CORNFORD Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mind, Volume XLI, Issue 161, January 1932, Pages 37–52, https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/XLI.161.37 Published: 01 January 1932
Ii.—mathematics and Dialectic in the Republic Vi.—vii. (Ii.)
Journal Article II.—MATHEMATICS AND DIALECTIC IN THE REPUBLIC VI.—VII. (II.) Get access F. M. CORNFORD F. M. CORNFORD Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mind, Volume XLI, Issue 162, April 1932, Pages 173–190, https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/XLI.162.173 Published: 01 April 1932
Aristotle, Physics 250A 9–19 and 266A 12–24
The first of these passages states some simple principles of mechanics. The second uses one of these principles to prove that a finite mover cannot cause a motion that will occupy unlimited time. The argument there has given much trouble to commentators because the principle in question was not understood, owing to the choice of a false reading in the earlier passage
Anaxagoras' Theory of Matter—I
Anaxagoras’ theory of matter offers a problem which, in bald outline, may be stated as follows. The theory rests on two propositions which seem flatly to contradict one another. One is the principle of Homoeomereity: A natural substance such as a piece of gold, consists solely of parts which are like the whole and like one another—every one of them gold and nothing else. The other is: ‘There is a portion of everything in everything’, understood t…
Anaxagoras' Theory of Matter—II
The earlier part of this paper yielded the result that the assertion ‘A portion of everything in everything’ has no place or function in the explanation of any sort of apparent ‘becoming’ or change. This conclusion is important because, ever since Aristotle, it has been assumed that the assertion was made in order to explain away becoming and change. But if (as I have shown), according to the best evidence, becoming and such sorts of change as An…
Mysticism and Science in the Pythagorean Tradition
We can now approach the interpretation of the famous symbol called the Tetractys or Tetrad , which is a compendium of Pythagorean mysticism. The tetractys is itself a system of numbers. It symbolizes the ‘elements of number,’ which are the elements of all things. It contains the concordant ratios of the musical harmony . It might well be described in the Pythagorean oath as ‘containing the root and fountain of everflowing Nature.’ In one of the a…
The Origin of Attic Comedy
The So-called Kommos in Greek Tragedy
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Hermes- Nous and Pan- Logos in Pindar, Ol. II
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The Tenth Argument to Aristophanes' Clouds
That three of them were popularly regarded as correlated with the three ages of human life; (2) that the structure of early Greek societies, as of other primitive societies, was based on the distinction of three main age-grades, of which the three virtues are characteristic; (3) that Plato's own Ideal State has the same age basis underlying the other features peculiar to it, and is indeed transparently modelled on the Spartan constitution; (4) th…
The Origin of Attic Comedy
Innumerable Worlds in Presocratic Philosophy
Z eller argued that the ‘innumerable worlds’ mentioned in accounts of Anaximander's system must be an endless succession of single worlds, not (as in the Atomists' doctrine) an unlimited number of coexistent worlds scattered through infinite space, some always coming into being while others are passing away. Zeller pointed out that a succession of single worlds is grounded in the principles of the system. ‘Things perish into that from which they …
Parmenides' Two Ways
The object of this paper is to determine the relations between the two parts of Parmenides' poem: the Way of Truth, which deduces the necessary properties of a One Being, and the False Way, which contains a cosmogony based on ‘what seems to mortals, in which there is no true belief.’
Anaxagoras' Theory of Matter—I
Anaxagoras’ theory of matter offers a problem which, in bald outline, may be stated as follows. The theory rests on two propositions which seem flatly to contradict one another. One is the principle of Homoeomereity: A natural substance such as a piece of gold, consists solely of parts which are like the whole and like one another—every one of them gold and nothing else. The other is: ‘There is a portion of everything in everything’, understood t…
Anaxagoras' Theory of Matter—II
The earlier part of this paper yielded the result that the assertion ‘A portion of everything in everything’ has no place or function in the explanation of any sort of apparent ‘becoming’ or change. This conclusion is important because, ever since Aristotle, it has been assumed that the assertion was made in order to explain away becoming and change. But if (as I have shown), according to the best evidence, becoming and such sorts of change as An…
The Tenth Argument to Aristophanes' Clouds
That three of them were popularly regarded as correlated with the three ages of human life; (2) that the structure of early Greek societies, as of other primitive societies, was based on the distinction of three main age-grades, of which the three virtues are characteristic; (3) that Plato's own Ideal State has the same age basis underlying the other features peculiar to it, and is indeed transparently modelled on the Spartan constitution; (4) th…
Hermes, Pan, Logos
The object of this paper is to supplement Dr. Zielinski's admirable articles on Hermes und die Hermetik ( Archiv f. Religionswiss . viii. 321 and ix. 25) (1) by calling attention to a passage in Aristotle where the triad–Hermes, Pan, Logos –appears, and (2) by showing that there is some probability that the passage refers to a lost work of the rhetorician Alkidamas, the pupil of Gorgias
Hermes- Nous and Pan- Logos in Pindar, Ol. II
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Tenth Argument to Aristophanes' Clouds
That three of them were popularly regarded as correlated with the three ages of human life; (2) that the structure of early Greek societies, as of other primitive societies, was based on the distinction of three main age-grades, of which the three virtues are characteristic; (3) that Plato's own Ideal State has the same age basis underlying the other features peculiar to it, and is indeed transparently modelled on the Spartan constitution; (4) th…
The So-called Kommos in Greek Tragedy
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The Origin of Attic Comedy
Mysticism and Science in the Pythagorean Tradition
We can now approach the interpretation of the famous symbol called the Tetractys or Tetrad , which is a compendium of Pythagorean mysticism. The tetractys is itself a system of numbers. It symbolizes the ‘elements of number,’ which are the elements of all things. It contains the concordant ratios of the musical harmony . It might well be described in the Pythagorean oath as ‘containing the root and fountain of everflowing Nature.’ In one of the a…
Anaxagoras' Theory of Matter—I
Anaxagoras’ theory of matter offers a problem which, in bald outline, may be stated as follows. The theory rests on two propositions which seem flatly to contradict one another. One is the principle of Homoeomereity: A natural substance such as a piece of gold, consists solely of parts which are like the whole and like one another—every one of them gold and nothing else. The other is: ‘There is a portion of everything in everything’, understood t…
Anaxagoras' Theory of Matter—II
The earlier part of this paper yielded the result that the assertion ‘A portion of everything in everything’ has no place or function in the explanation of any sort of apparent ‘becoming’ or change. This conclusion is important because, ever since Aristotle, it has been assumed that the assertion was made in order to explain away becoming and change. But if (as I have shown), according to the best evidence, becoming and such sorts of change as An…
Iii.—mathematics and Dialectic in the Republic Vi.—vii. (I.).
III.—MATHEMATICS AND DIALECTIC IN THE REPUBLIC VI.—VII. (I.). Get access F. M. CORNFORD F. M. CORNFORD Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mind, Volume XLI, Issue 161, January 1932, Pages 37–52, https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/XLI.161.37 Published: 01 January 1932
Ii.—mathematics and Dialectic in the Republic Vi.—vii. (Ii.)
Journal Article II.—MATHEMATICS AND DIALECTIC IN THE REPUBLIC VI.—VII. (II.) Get access F. M. CORNFORD F. M. CORNFORD Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mind, Volume XLI, Issue 162, April 1932, Pages 173–190, https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/XLI.162.173 Published: 01 April 1932
Aristotle, Physics 250A 9–19 and 266A 12–24
The first of these passages states some simple principles of mechanics. The second uses one of these principles to prove that a finite mover cannot cause a motion that will occupy unlimited time. The argument there has given much trouble to commentators because the principle in question was not understood, owing to the choice of a false reading in the earlier passage
Parmenides' Two Ways
The object of this paper is to determine the relations between the two parts of Parmenides' poem: the Way of Truth, which deduces the necessary properties of a One Being, and the False Way, which contains a cosmogony based on ‘what seems to mortals, in which there is no true belief.’
Innumerable Worlds in Presocratic Philosophy
Z eller argued that the ‘innumerable worlds’ mentioned in accounts of Anaximander's system must be an endless succession of single worlds, not (as in the Atomists' doctrine) an unlimited number of coexistent worlds scattered through infinite space, some always coming into being while others are passing away. Zeller pointed out that a succession of single worlds is grounded in the principles of the system. ‘Things perish into that from which they …
Plato's Commonwealth
A country so situated that its growth depends on sea-power and foreign trade heads an alliance against an emperor bent on adding a good part of Europe to his dominions. The emperor is defeated; and in an ample stretch of comparatively quiet years the champion of freedom finds opportunity to take the lead among its neighbours in the arts of peace. At home, democratic institutions are developed towards their logical completion; abroad, ambition is …
A New Fragment of Parmenides
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Iii.—the “Polytheism” of Plato: An Apology
Journal Article III.—THE “POLYTHEISM” OF PLATO: AN APOLOGY Get access F. M. CORNFORD F. M. CORNFORD Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mind, Volume XLVII, Issue 187, July 1938, Pages 321–330, https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/XLVII.187.321 Published: 01 July 1938
Aristotle De Caelo 288a 2–9
Aristotle is asking why the heaven revolves in one direction rather than the other. His answer is based on his earlier proof that the Universe has a top and a bottom, a right and a left. The upper region, as the place of divinity, is prior or superior to the lower; so upward motion is prior to downward motion. Right is similarly prior and superior to left. The present problem can be solved by supposing that the world has also a front and a back, …
Plato and Parmenides
Plato and Parmenides
The Unwritten Philosophy and Other Essays
The Unwritten Philosophy and Other Essays
Principium Sapientiae: The Origins of Greek Philosophical Thought
Principium Sapientiae
Principium Sapientiae. The Origins of Greek Philosophical Thought
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Principium Sapientiae. The Origins of Greek Philoaophical Thought. By F. M. Cornford. Edited by W. K. C. Guthrie. ( Cambridge University Press. 1952. Pp. viii + 271. Price 25s). J. L. Ackrill J. L. Ackrill Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 4, Issue 17, October 1954, Pages 378–379, https://doi.org/10.2307/2217383 Published: 01 October…
Principium Sapientiae: The Origins of Greek Philosophical Thought
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