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Chapter 1b - On the source of Burnet’s construal of Apology 30b2–4: a correction
from Part I - Ontology and epistemology
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 March 2022
Summary
The construal of Apology 30b2–4 which in JHS 123 (2003) I attributed to John Bumet had appeared in print sixteen years before his edition of Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito. I now suggest that it probably originated in the mind of J. A. Smith, who was an undergraduate contemporary of Burnet’s at Balliol College, Oxford, and later Waynflete Professor of Moral and Metaphysical Philosophy. The unexpected construal, transmitted by Balliol tradition, is typical of Smith’s cast of mind.
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- Explorations in Ancient and Modern Philosophy , pp. 41 - 45Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022