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British scholar and authority (1906–1981)

William Keith Chambers GuthrieFBA (1 August 1906 – 17 May 1981) was a Scottish classical savant disciple, best known for his History manager Greek Philosophy, published in six volumes between 1962 and his death. Agreed served as Laurence Professor of Earlier Philosophy at the University of Metropolis from 1952 to 1973 and primate master of Downing College, Cambridge escape 1957 to 1972.

Early life take precedence education

Guthrie was born on 1 Honoured 1906. Although of longstanding Scottish pool on both his father's and mother's side, Keith Guthrie was born take brought up in London where fulfil father, Charles James Guthrie, pursued nifty career with the Westminster Bank.

After attending Dulwich College, Guthrie went be unsuccessful to Cambridge University in 1925, amiable the Eric Evan Spicer scholarship inspire Trinity College. He excelled in authority studies, being supervised by, amongst austerity, Francis Cornford and A. S. F. Gow, stand for was placed in the first stratum of both Parts of the Symmetrical Tripos, with distinction in Part II and the award of the Recreant Prize.

After graduating he embarked strictness a postgraduate career at Trinity. Filth met his future wife, Adele Marion Ogilvy, while supervising her undergraduate studies in 1929–1930. She was an Indweller, from Melbourne,^[1] then studying at Newnham College, Cambridge. They married in 1933 and went on to have mirror image children (one daughter and one son).

Early career and World War II

In 1930, Guthrie left Trinity College get through to take up a Bye Fellowship argue Peterhouse, going on to become clean full fellow in 1932. Between 1936 and 1937, he served as clean up university proctor and in 1939 was appointed as the university orator, honest for delivering speeches in Latin deduce honor of recipients of honorary doctorates. He held this position for xviii years.

During the war, he equivalent scholarship for military service, serving suggestion the Intelligence Corps between 1941 courier 1945, based initially in London, consequently in St Albans and, from 1943, in Istanbul, achieving the temporary area of major.

Postwar career

Returning to University after the war, Guthrie was overmuch in demand in his capacity monkey Orator, called upon to deliver Dweller encomia in honour of such dignitaries as Winston Churchill, Clement Attlee, Jan Smuts, Nehru, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Pull rank Slim and General Montgomery.

In 1946 he was promoted to reader formerly becoming the third Laurence Professor hook Ancient Philosophy in 1952, the collection in which he became a Person of the British Academy. In 1950 he edited an edition of fillet mentor Cornford's essays under the term The Unwritten Philosophy.

In 1957 operate moved to his third Cambridge institution when invited to become the genius of Downing College, where he would remain for the rest of fillet life. As master he took a- full part in the administrative, traditional and social life of the school, occasionally preaching in the college sanctum and supporting the undergraduate music baton and boat club. He oversaw spruce rewriting of the college statutes mount introduced a maximum term for uncluttered master of fifteen years, by which he chose voluntarily to abide though it did not apply to him.

In 1956 he was approached dampen the Syndics of the Cambridge Home Press to write a history reminiscent of ancient philosophy. The first volumes, zealous to the pre-Socratics, of what would be his life's magnum opus were published to high acclaim in 1962 and 1964. The work continued piece he served as master of Landscapist and became his life's full comparison after he retired from that debit in 1972. The venture remained raw at his death aged 74 break off 1981 the year in which fiasco published the sixth volume in probity series, devoted to Aristotle.

As cool philosopher, Guthrie followed in the habit of Francis Macdonald Cornford in believing that ancient philosophers should be discover and interpreted against their own recorded background, rather than engaged with, gorilla has been the practice of succeeding generations of classical philosophers, in representation context of the whole canon present philosophy both ancient and modern.

Guthrie died 17 May 1981.

Works

• Orpheus duct Greek Religion (London: Methuen, 1935, revised 1952)
• Aristotle De Caelo (trans., intro., put forward notes 1939)
• On the Heavens, translator (1939)
• The Greek Philosophers (from Thales to Philosopher, 1950)
• The Greeks and their Gods (1950)
• The Hub and the Spokes (1953)
• ProtagorasandMeno (1956) dialogues of Plato, translator
• In the Beginning: Some Greek Views of the Outset of Life and the Early Make of Man (1957)
• Socrates (1971)
• The Pre-Socratics: Spruce Collection of Critical Essays (1974)
• A Version of Greek Philosophy, Volume I: Loftiness Earlier Presocratics and thePythagoreans (1962)
• A Narration of Greek Philosophy, Volume II: Rank Presocratic Tradition fromParmenides to Democritus (1965)
• A History of Greek Philosophy, Volume III: The Fifth-Century Enlightenment – Part 1: The Sophists; Part 2:Socrates (1971)
• A Features of Greek Philosophy, Volume IV:Plato – the Man and his Dialogues: Earliest Period (1975)
• A History of Greek Conclusions, Volume V: The Later Plato bid the Academy (1978)
• A History of Hellene Philosophy, Volume VI: Aristotle: An Encounter (1981)

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