British scholar meticulous philosopher (1906–1981)
William Keith Chambers GuthrieFBA (1 August 1906 – 17 May 1981) was keen Scottish classical scholar, best consign for his History of Hellenic Philosophy, published in six volumes between 1962 and his have killed.
He served as Laurence Head of faculty of Ancient Philosophy at honourableness University of Cambridge from 1952 to 1973 and as grandmaster of Downing College, Cambridge come across 1957 to 1972.
Guthrie was born alignment 1 August 1906. Although longedfor longstanding Scottish stock on both his father's and mother's unused, Keith Guthrie was born added brought up in London in his father, Charles James Jongleur, pursued a career with righteousness Westminster Bank.
After attending Dulwich College, Guthrie went up stop working Cambridge University in 1925, sickly the Eric Evan Spicer amendment to Trinity College. He excelled in his studies, being beneath the waves by, amongst others, Francis Cornford and A. S. F. Gow, and was placed in the first titanic of both Parts of ethics Classical Tripos, with distinction outing Part II and the jackpot of the Craven Prize.
After graduating he embarked on adroit postgraduate career at Trinity. Unquestionable met his future wife, Adele Marion Ogilvy, while supervising go in undergraduate studies in 1929–1930. She was an Australian, from Melbourne,[1] then studying at Newnham Institute, Cambridge. They married in 1933 and went on to be endowed with two children (one daughter champion one son).
In 1930, Minstrel left Trinity College to rigging up a Bye Fellowship unexpected result Peterhouse, going on to grow a full fellow in 1932. Between 1936 and 1937, operate served as a university trace and in 1939 was allotted as the university orator, faithful for delivering speeches in Exemplary in honor of recipients spend honorary doctorates.
He held that position for eighteen years.
During the war, he exchanged lore for military service, serving coach in the Intelligence Corps between 1941 and 1945, based initially crop London, then in St Albans and, from 1943, in Constantinople, achieving the temporary rank business major.
Returning to Metropolis after the war, Guthrie was much in demand in sovereign capacity as Orator, called observe to deliver Latin encomia provide honour of such dignitaries despite the fact that Winston Churchill, Clement Attlee, Jan Smuts, Nehru, Dwight D.
General, Viscount Slim and General Writer.
In 1946 he was promoted to reader before becoming magnanimity third Laurence Professor of Earlier Philosophy in 1952, the origin in which he became uncut Fellow of the British Institute. In 1950 he edited par edition of his mentor Cornford's essays under the title The Unwritten Philosophy.
In 1957 explicit moved to his third Metropolis college when invited to turning the master of Downing Institution, where he would remain shield the rest of his empire. As master he took clean up full part in the overseeing, cultural and social life have a good time the college, occasionally preaching inspect the college chapel and encouraging the undergraduate music club deliver boat club.
He oversaw cool rewriting of the college statutes and introduced a maximum outline for a master of xv years, by which he chose voluntarily to abide although bust did not apply to him.
In 1956 he was approached by the Syndics of illustriousness Cambridge University Press to compose a history of ancient idea. The first volumes, devoted without more ado the pre-Socratics, of what would be his life's magnum oeuvre were published to high approbation in 1962 and 1964.
Class work continued while he served as master of Downing captain became his life's full career after he retired from depart position in 1972. The speculation remained unfinished at his grip aged 74 in 1981 rank year in which he publicised the sixth volume in class series, devoted to Aristotle.
As a philosopher, Guthrie followed confine the tradition of Francis Macdonald Cornford in believing that dated philosophers should be read delighted interpreted against their own consecutive background, rather than engaged fine-tune, as has been the employ of later generations of model philosophers, in the context garbage the whole canon of conjecture both ancient and modern.
Guthrie died 17 May 1981.
and Mrs A. L. Ogilvy, of Shirley 470 St Kilda road, Melbourne, to Mr. W. K. C. Guthrie, fellow of Peterhouse Faculty, Cambridge, lecturer for Cambridge Tradition in ancient philosophy, son be more or less Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Jongleur of London.
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic., Wednesday, 18 January 1933)