-- And that's Lit. Hum.
-- by JLS
----- for the GC
----- GRICE HELD TWO FIRSTS from Corpus Christi.
I. M. Crombie, of Wadham, passed a couple of days ago.
Nowadays, there is a Sub-Faculty of Classical Languages and Literatures. In the good old days of Grice and Crombie, it was plain "Faculty of Lit. Hum." -- The very idea of a sub-faculty is confusing (if not irritating).
If one studies the education of a gentleman (almost -- vide Osbornce) one gets the idea. Grice was unsure if what he was doing was classics OR philosophy. The programme of Lit. Hum. was such that the less of philo, the more.
Nowadays, with the "Classical Languages AND Lits" the whole thing is very confusing and the result obvious. If D. Dutton has criticised English teachers who can't write English, it's all "Diegetical gender bender narratives in "Daphne and Chloe"" today. The classics have become notably unphilosphical, and a genius, and author of "An examination of Plato's doctrines" (as Crombie was -- and the one I used in my first philo essay ever, on Plato) becomes 'sub-marginal'!
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An online site refers to Crombie as being 'vitiated by analytic philosophy'! Balderdash! I wouldn't be surprised if he learned it from Grice! Oddly, Grice tuteed J. L. Ackrill, too -- a genius (both Grice and Ackrill). Crombie's names were "Ian McHattie" if you must know. Etc. He wrote on Grice's and Ackrill's favourite Aristotle ("An exegetical point in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics", Mind). Etc. I am waiting for the obituary in the Times. I expect he was born in Scotland, which (Scottish bias) may bring a delay in the obituary in the Times, though.
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