ABSTRACT
Myles Burnyeat and I were finishing our work on Philosophy As It Is as 1977–78 began. More particularly, we were finishing our brief prefaces to the included lectures, articles from journals, and chapters from other books. The official idea of the anthology was that the nature and worth of philosophy is not preserved in popular accounts of it, introductions of a general kind, interviews with practitioners, philosophy-made-simple. The general reader needs for his own good to be in touch with the real stuff itself, as it is. Do you remark, cruel reader, that in the book in your hand there is some potted philosophy? Very true, Your Honour, very true.
