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Saturday, May 16, 2020

"ackrillism" -- from THESAVRVS GRICEIANVM.



Ackrillism – after J. L. Ackrill, London-born, Oxford-educated tutee of Grice’s. Grice cites him in “Some reflections on ends and happiness.” The reference is to Ackrill’s exploration on Aristotle on happiness. Ackrill was Grice’s tutee at St. John’s where he read, as he should, for the Lit. Hum. (Phil.). Grice instilled on him a love for Aristotle, which had been instilled on Grice by Scots philosopher Hardie, Grice’s tutee at THE place to study Lit. Hum., Corpus. Grice regretted that Ackrill had to *translate* Aristotle. “Of course at Clifton and Corpus, Hardie never asked me so!” Grice thought that Aristotle was almost being ‘murdered,’ literally, by Ackrill. That’s why Grice would always quote Aristotle in the Grecian vernacular. An “ackrillism,” then, as Grice used it, is a way to turn Aristotle from one vernacular to another, “usually with an Ackrillian effect.”


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