M F Burnyeat
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 461132 |
|---|---|
| NOME | M F Burnyeat |
| PRENOMES | M F |
| SOBRENOME | Burnyeat |
| ASSINATURA | BURNYEAT M F |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University College London |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 42 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 59 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 42 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1962 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2015 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Enthymeme
Justice writ large and small inRepublic4
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Politeia in Greek and Roman Philosophy
This is the first exploration of how ideas of politeia (constitution) structure both political and extra-political relations throughout the entirety of Greek and Roman philosophy, ranging from Presocratic to classical, Hellenistic, and Neoplatonic thought. A highly distinguished international team of scholars investigate topics such as the Athenian, Spartan and Platonic visions of politeia, the reshaping of Greek and Latin vocabularies of politic…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Fathers and sons in Plato’s Republic and Philebus
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Apology 30b 2-4
The framework of this paper is a defence of Burnet's construal of Apology 30b 2-4. Socrates does not claim, as he is standardly translated, that virtue makes you rich, but that virtue makes money and everything else good for you. This view of the relation between virtue and wealth is paralleled in dialogues of every period, and a sophisticated development of it appears in Aristotle. My philological defence of the philosophically preferable transl…
De Anima Ii 5
This is a close scrutiny of De Anima II 5, led by two questions. First, what can be learned from so long and intricate a discussion about the neglected problem of how to read an Aristotelian chapter? Second, what can the chapter, properly read, teach us about some widely debated issues in Aristotle's theory of perception? I argue that it refutes two claims defended by Martha Nussbaum, Hilary Putnam, and Richard Sorabji: (i) that when Aristotle sp…
Aquinas on ‘Spiritual Change’ in Perception
What was the ‘Common Arrangement’? An Inquiry into John Stuart Mill's Boyhood Reading of Plato
This article is detective work, not philosophy. J. S. Mill's Autobiography records that at the age of seven he read, in Greek, ‘the first six dialogues (in the common arrangement) of Plato, from the Euthyphron to the Theaetetus inclusive’. Which were the other dialogues? On the arrangement common today, it would be Crito, Apology, Phaedo, Cratylus . On the arrangement common then, Theages and Erastai replace Cratylus , which makes seven dialogues…
First words
Mr Vice-Chancellor, May I thank you for coming to preside at this occasion, and thank everyone else for coming to be presided over – most especially my colleagues in the Faculty of Classics. You were not all here when I joined the Faculty eighteen years ago, but you have all helped to sustain the atmosphere of cooperation, good will, and intellectual adventure, which has made this Faculty such a wonderful place to work and teach in. There is much…
Antipater and Self-Refutation
Postscript on silent reading
Is an Aristotelian Philosophy of Mind Still Credible? (A Draft)
This essay argues that the Putnam-Nussbaum thesis that modern functionalism is Aristotelian is false. It fails as an interpretation of Aristotle since it fails to notice that Aristotle’s conception of the material or physical side of the soul-body relation is one which no modern functionalist could share. The Putnam-Nussbaum thesis is examined within the context of the theory of perception. This involves the need to understand one of the most mys…
Did the ancient Greeks have the concept of human rights
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…
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…
A History of Greek Philosophy, Volume V
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…
De Anima Ii 5
This is a close scrutiny of De Anima II 5, led by two questions. First, what can be learned from so long and intricate a discussion about the neglected problem of how to read an Aristotelian chapter? Second, what can the chapter, properly read, teach us about some widely debated issues in Aristotle's theory of perception? I argue that it refutes two claims defended by Martha Nussbaum, Hilary Putnam, and Richard Sorabji: (i) that when Aristotle sp…
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
The Upside-down Back-to-front Sceptic of Lucretius IV 472
The Upside-Down Back-to-Front Sceptic of Lucretius Iv 472
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…
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…
Did the ancient Greeks have the concept of human rights
Is an Aristotelian Philosophy of Mind Still Credible? (A Draft)
This essay argues that the Putnam-Nussbaum thesis that modern functionalism is Aristotelian is false. It fails as an interpretation of Aristotle since it fails to notice that Aristotle’s conception of the material or physical side of the soul-body relation is one which no modern functionalist could share. The Putnam-Nussbaum thesis is examined within the context of the theory of perception. This involves the need to understand one of the most mys…
Antipater and Self-Refutation
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