Promoting a New Kind of Education: Greek and Roman Philosophical Protreptic /

Promoting a New Kind of Education: Greek and Roman Philosophical Protreptic /

Authors of Greek and Roman philosophical protreptics imitate a kind of exhortation initially associated with Socrates, creating a thread of typically protreptic intertextuality that classifies protreptic as a genre of philosophical literature. Tracing this intertextuality from the Socratic authors t...

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Main Author: Markovich, Daniel (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2022.

Series: International Studies in the History of Rhetoric ; 16.
Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2021, ISBN: 9789004441040.

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Philosophy.

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Call Number: D16.8

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Table of Contents:
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • 1 Introduction: A New Way of Living
  • 1 From Socratic Protreptic to Philosophical Protreptic
  • 2 Philosophical Protreptic as a Form of Deliberation
  • 3 Reading Philosophical Protreptic
  • 2 Entering the Dialogue: Socrates and the Socratic Authors
  • 1 Aeschines of Sphettos
  • 2 Plato
  • 3 Xenophon
  • 4 Conclusions
  • 3 Philosophy as Theoretical Observation: Aristotle's Protreptic
  • 1 The Reconstruction of Aristotle's Protreptic
  • 2 The Content of Aristotle's Protreptic
  • 3 Aristotle's Dialogue with Plato
  • 4 Aristotle and Isocrates
  • 5 Aristotle and His Audiences
  • 6 Conclusions
  • 4 Philosophy as Therapy: Hellenistic Authors
  • 1 Expanding the Audience
  • 2 Epicurus: Happiness for Everyone
  • 3 Early and Middle Stoic Authors
  • 4 The New Academy: Philo of Larissa
  • 5 Middle Platonism: Eudorus of Alexandria
  • 6 Conclusions
  • 5 Philosophy and Politics: Roman Paideia
  • 1 Greek Philosophy in Rome
  • 2 Lucretius: A View from Above
  • 3 Cicero: Platonic Politics
  • 4 Seneca: A Fellow Convalescent
  • 5 Conclusions
  • 6 Socrates in Rome: Greek Authors of the Empire
  • 1 Being a Philosopher in the Period of the Second Sophistic
  • 2 Musonius Rufus: Lucius's Socrates
  • 3 Epictetus: Arrian's Socrates
  • 4 Dio of Prusa: Socrates in Exile
  • 5 Lucian of Samosata: Protreptic under a Comic and Satirical Mask
  • 6 Excursus: Exhortations to Medicine and to Christianity
  • 7 Conclusions
  • 7 The Unity of Philosophy Reclaimed: Neoplatonism
  • 1 Neoplatonic Tendencies
  • 2 Iamblichus: A Protreptic Anthology
  • 3 Themistius: Philosophy and Rhetoric Reconciled
  • 4 Boethius: A Protreptic to Himself
  • 5 Conclusions
  • Conclusions
  • 1 Typical Arguments
  • 2 The Protreptic Worldview and The Philosophy of Education
  • 3 Rhetorical Strategies
  • 4 Rhetorical Goals
  • 5 Philosophical Protreptic and Other Types of Philosophical Literature
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix: Examples of Philosophical Protreptic
  • Editions, Commentaries, and Translations
  • Secondary Bibliography
  • Indices.