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.”
Saturday, May 16, 2020
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