Exhortations to philosophy : the protreptics of Plato, isocrates, and aristotle /

This book is a study of the literary strategies which the first professional philosophers used to market their respective disciplines. Philosophers of fourth-century BCE Athens developed the emerging genre of the "protreptic" (literally, "turning" or "converting"). Simp...

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Main Author:	Collins, James Henderson, II (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Subjects:	Exhortation (Rhetoric) Rhetoric, Ancient. Exhortation (Rhétorique) Rhétorique ancienne. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Composition & Creative Writing. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Rhetoric. REFERENCE > Writing Skills. Rhetoric, Ancient Electronic books.
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