UID:
almahu_9949703659602882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9789004467248
,
9789004467231
Series Statement:
International Studies in the History of Rhetoric ; 16
Content:
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 to Boethius, the book shows how Greek and Roman protreptics define philosophy as a revisionary form of education, articulate the ultimate goals of this education, and associate their authors and audiences with philosophy as a new discursive practice and a new way of living. These texts constitute the first chapter in the history of educational revision and thus offer thoughts that continue to inform every debate on educational goals.
Note:
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.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Promoting a New Kind of Education: Greek and Roman Philosophical Protreptic. Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2022 ISBN 9789004467231
Language:
English
