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- Explorations in Ancient and Modern Philosophy
- Explorations in Ancient and Modern Philosophy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I The Republic
- Part II The past in the present
- Chapter 9 Plato
- Chapter 10 James Mill on Thomas Taylor’s Plato: Introduction
- Chapter 11 What was ‘the common arrangement’? An Inquiry into John Stuart Mill’s boyhood reading of Plato
- Chapter 12 The past in the present: Plato as educator of nineteenth-century Britain
- Appendix: The archaeology of feeling
- Bibliography
- Index locorum
Chapter 10 - James Mill on Thomas Taylor’s Plato: Introduction
from Part II - The past in the present
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 March 2022
- Explorations in Ancient and Modern Philosophy
- Explorations in Ancient and Modern Philosophy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I The Republic
- Part II The past in the present
- Chapter 9 Plato
- Chapter 10 James Mill on Thomas Taylor’s Plato: Introduction
- Chapter 11 What was ‘the common arrangement’? An Inquiry into John Stuart Mill’s boyhood reading of Plato
- Chapter 12 The past in the present: Plato as educator of nineteenth-century Britain
- Appendix: The archaeology of feeling
- Bibliography
- Index locorum
Summary
A study of James Mill’s engagement with Plato. It focuses on two hostile reviews of Thomas Taylor’s Neoplatonist Plato, one published by him in 2004 in The Literary Journal, a short-lived periodical that he himself edited, and another in 2009 in The Edinburgh Review, a much more prestigious and enduring forum of opinion, for which he wrote regularly for some years. It celebrates Mill as a pioneer, who had the good fortune to make his first approach to Plato from the vantage point of the scepticism of Cicero’s Academica, and very likely exerted influence on the interpretation of Plato in George Grote’s great study of 1865, which portrays an exploratory thinker, not a system builder.
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- Explorations in Ancient and Modern Philosophy , pp. 264 - 271Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022