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Benjamin Jowett

Benjamin Jowett

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theologian
university teacher
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
✝️Anglicanism
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Benjamin Jowett was an English writer and classical scholar. 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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1817 – 1893
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21
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Born in
Camberwell
Educated at
Balliol CollegeSt Paul's School

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"Learn just enough of the subject to enable your mind to get rid of it."

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"Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge."

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"Grave of Benjamin Jowett in St Sepulchre's Cemetery, Oxford, with biography"

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"We have sought truth, and sometimes perhaps found it. But have we had any fun?"

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"Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard ."

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"Learn just enough of the subject [metaphysics] to enable your mind to get rid of it."

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"I hope our young men will not grow into such dodgers as these old men are. I believe everything that a young man says to me ."

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  • 1817

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  • 1893

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