Explorations in Ancient and Modern Philosophy: Volume 3

Myles Burnyeat was formerly Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. Carol Atack is a Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge. She is the author of The Discourse of Kingship in Classical Greece (2020) and an associate editor of Polis. She previously worked with Myles Burnyeat in the preparation of The Pseudo-Platonic Seventh Letter (2015). Malcolm Schofield is Emeritus Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St John's College. He was co-editor with Myles Burnyeat and Jonathan Barnes of Doubt and Dogmatism (1980), the first volume of the published proceedings of a series of triennial conferences on Hellenistic philosophy that continues to the present. His most recent book is a survey of Cicero's political thought (2021). David Sedley is Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Christ's College. He was an editor of Classical Quarterly and Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy. His books include (with A.A. Long) The Hellenistic Philosophers (Cambridge, 1987) and Creationism and its Critics in Antiquity (2007).

Introduction; Part I. The Republic; 1. Plato on why mathematics is good for the soul; 2. Long walk to wisdom; 3. The truth of tripartition; 4. Plato and the dairy-maids: the distribution of happiness inside and outside the ideal city of the Republic; 5. Justice writ large and small in Republic IV; 6. Fathers and sons in Plato's Republic and Philebus; 7. By the Dog; 8. Culture and society in Plato's Republic; Part II. The Past in the Present; 9. Plato; 10. James Mill on Thomas Taylor's Plato; 11. What was 'the common arrangement'? An inquiry into John Stuart Mill's boyhood reading of Plato; 12. The past in the present: Plato as educator of nineteenth-century Britain; Appendix: The Archaeology of Feeling.