John Pentland Mahaffy wrote at a period when the questions philosophy asked were themselves being renegotiated.
The record lists John Pentland Mahaffy as Irish classicist and polymathic scholar (1839–1919).
John Pentland Mahaffy was born at Vevey in 1839. His recorded nationality is United Kingdom. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin.
The nineteenth century produced systems on a grand scale, and then the reaction against them.
His academic posts were held at University of Dublin.
The recorded fields of work are classical philology, papyrology and literary studies.
Philosophical influence is measured in the questions a thinker made unavoidable.
The honours record reads: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire and Order of the Redeemer (1877).
That the work was done from United Kingdom matters: philosophical traditions, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
John Pentland Mahaffy died in 1919, aged 80. The arguments remain in print, which is the form in which philosophy survives.
Achievements
- Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire
- Order of the Redeemer — 1877
- Held posts at University of Dublin
- Fields: classical philology, papyrology and literary studies
