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Benjamin Jowett
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Benjamin Jowett (, modern variant ; 15 April 1817 – 1 October 1893) was an English writer, classical scholar, and Anglican deacon. Additionally, he was an administrative reformer in the University of Oxford, theologian, Anglican cleric, and translator of Plato and Thucydides. He was master of Balliol College, Oxford.
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By Plato Translated by Benjamin Jowett PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Socrates, Hermogenes, Cratylus. HERMOGENES: Suppose that we make Socrates a party to the argument? CRATYLUS: If you please.
Plato, Cratylus
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Professor Jowett, when asked what Oxford could do for its students, is said to have replied, "Oxford can teach an English gentleman how to _be_ an English gentleman." But, if you ask what it means to 'be' an English gentleman, the only reply is in terms of conduct and behavior.
William James, Talks To Teachers On Psychology
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And the lowest place they call [Greek omitted], as the names of the dead, [Greek omitted] and [Greek omitted], do show. And some say, that the south wind, inasmuch as it blows from a low and obscure place, is called [Greek omitted]. Now since the appetitive faculty stands in the same opposition to reason in which the lowest stands to the highest and the last to the first, it is not possible for the reason to be…
Plutarch, Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3
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Part of British philosophy.