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F. M. Cornford. Francis Macdonald Cornford FBA (27 February 1874 – 3 January 1943) was an English classical scholar and translator known for work on ancient philosophy, notably Plato, Parmenides, Thucydides, and ancient Greek religion. Frances Cornford, his wife, was a noted poet.
JHS 62 (1942) 1-7 = Selected Papers: 191-7; “The Marxist View of Ancient Philosophy” in Unwritten Philosophy: 117-37. Francis Macdonald Cornford was a revolutionary scholar who reinterpreted the origins of Western thought and a masterful translator of and commentator on the later dialogues of Plato.
Francis Macdonald Cornford (1874–1943) was Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Cambridge.
Francis Macdonald Cornford was one of that brave trio of Ritualists, and From Religion to Philosophy (1912) was part of their reconstructive project.
The Republic Of Plato. by Plato (Author), F. M. Cornford (Translator) 4.3 58 ratings. See all formats and editions. Essestially an inquiry into morality, the Republic is the central work of the Western world's most famous philosopher.
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Nov 28, 1991 · In this exploration of the “very first utterance of philosophers,” F. M. Cornford showed that the remarkable burst of abstract speculation among pre-Socratic thinkers of the sixth century B.C. emerged directly from the religious thought of the preceding era in Greece.
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