 Just as the recent exploration of the origins of analytic philosophy have led some authors to look more closely at its relations with British idealism, the intellectual roots of Bosanquet’s idealism also need to be more thoroughly explored. Though Bosanquet’s debt to the writings of Hegel and Kant is relatively well-known, there were a number of other important influences on his work (see Sweet 1995). Perhaps the most significant is that of classical Greek thought, and it is only recently recognised that Bosanquet’s philosophy cannot be fully appreciated without am appreciation of his debt to Greek philosophy.