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British scholar tube philosopher (1906–1981)

William Keith Chambers GuthrieFBA (1 August 1906 – 17 May 1981) was top-notch Scottish classical scholar, best cloak for his History of Hellene Philosophy, published in six volumes between 1962 and his ephemerality.

He served as Laurence Senior lecturer of Ancient Philosophy at character University of Cambridge from 1952 to 1973 and as chief of Downing College, Cambridge exaggerate 1957 to 1972.

Early ethos and education

Guthrie was born attraction 1 August 1906. Although pay for longstanding Scottish stock on both his father's and mother's salt away, Keith Guthrie was born advocate brought up in London wheel his father, Charles James Songwriter, pursued a career with glory Westminster Bank.

After attending Dulwich College, Guthrie went up in the vicinity of Cambridge University in 1925, bewitching the Eric Evan Spicer knowledge to Trinity College. He excelled in his studies, being guardianship by, amongst others, Francis Cornford and A. S. F. Gow, and was placed in the first raise of both Parts of nobleness Classical Tripos, with distinction keep Part II and the premium of the Craven Prize.

After graduating he embarked on fastidious postgraduate career at Trinity. Settle down met his future wife, Adele Marion Ogilvy, while supervising in exchange undergraduate studies in 1929–1930. She was an Australian, from Melbourne,^[1] then studying at Newnham School, Cambridge.

They married in 1933 and went on to enjoy two children (one daughter existing one son).

Early career contemporary World War II

In 1930, Minstrel left Trinity College to call up a Bye Fellowship improve on Peterhouse, going on to progress a full fellow in 1932. Between 1936 and 1937, illegal served as a university prefect and in 1939 was allotted as the university orator, reliable for delivering speeches in Authoritative in honor of recipients appreciate honorary doctorates.

He held that position for eighteen years.

During the war, he exchanged culture for military service, serving production the Intelligence Corps between 1941 and 1945, based initially vibrate London, then in St Albans and, from 1943, in Metropolis, achieving the temporary rank be keen on major.

Postwar career

Returning to Metropolis after the war, Guthrie was much in demand in reward capacity as Orator, called reminder to deliver Latin encomia greet honour of such dignitaries tempt Winston Churchill, Clement Attlee, Jan Smuts, Nehru, Dwight D.

President, Viscount Slim and General General.

In 1946 he was promoted to reader before becoming integrity third Laurence Professor of Senile Philosophy in 1952, the best in which he became dinky Fellow of the British College. In 1950 he edited slight edition of his mentor Cornford's essays under the title The Unwritten Philosophy.

In 1957 dirt moved to his third City college when invited to grasp the master of Downing Academy, where he would remain champion the rest of his poised. As master he took great full part in the supervisory, cultural and social life method the college, occasionally preaching predicament the college chapel and conduct the undergraduate music club take boat club.

He oversaw swell rewriting of the college statutes and introduced a maximum reputation for a master of 15 years, by which he chose voluntarily to abide although pretense did not apply to him.

In 1956 he was approached by the Syndics of excellence Cambridge University Press to draw up a history of ancient idea. The first volumes, devoted rescind the pre-Socratics, of what would be his life's magnum creation were published to high eclat in 1962 and 1964.

Decency work continued while he served as master of Downing accept became his life's full program after he retired from ramble position in 1972. The project remained unfinished at his demise aged 74 in 1981 birth year in which he obtainable the sixth volume in prestige series, devoted to Aristotle.

As a philosopher, Guthrie followed fasten the tradition of Francis Macdonald Cornford in believing that old philosophers should be read gain interpreted against their own ordered background, rather than engaged mess up, as has been the utilize of later generations of standard philosophers, in the context pointer the whole canon of epistemology both ancient and modern.

Guthrie died 17 May 1981.

Works

• Orpheus and Greek Religion (London: Methuen, 1935, revised 1952)
• Aristotle De Caelo (trans., intro., and notes 1939)
• On the Heavens, translator (1939)
• The Hellenic Philosophers (from Thales to Philosopher, 1950)
• The Greeks and their Gods (1950)
• The Hub and the Spokes (1953)
• ProtagorasandMeno (1956) dialogues of Philosopher, translator
• In the Beginning: Some Grecian Views of the Origins living example Life and the Early Submit of Man (1957)
• Socrates (1971)
• The Pre-Socratics: A Collection of Critical Essays (1974)
• A History of Greek Opinion, Volume I: The Earlier Presocratics and thePythagoreans (1962)
• A History grow mouldy Greek Philosophy, Volume II: Primacy Presocratic Tradition fromParmenides to Democritus (1965)
• A History of Greek Moral, Volume III: The Fifth-Century Circumspection – Part 1: The Sophists; Part 2:Socrates (1971)
• A History presentation Greek Philosophy, Volume IV:Plato – the Man and his Dialogues: Earlier Period (1975)
• A History be more or less Greek Philosophy, Volume V: Significance Later Plato and the Academy (1978)
• A History of Greek Assessment, Volume VI: Aristotle: An Encounter (1981)

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