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

Daniel Markovich (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

328 Seiten

2021
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-46723-1 (ISBN)

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The book presents Greek and Roman philosophical protreptic not as a rhetorical and literary appendix to “philosophy proper” but as an important genre that articulates the discipline of philosophy as a new kind of education.

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.

Daniel Markovich, Ph.D. in Classical Philology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2006), is an Associate Professor in Classics at the University of Cincinnati. He has published on Greco-Roman rhetorical theory, Roman Epicureanism (including a monograph on The Rhetoric of Explanation in Lucretius’ De rerum natura, Brill 2008), and Roman reception of Empedocles.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	01.11.2021
Reihe/Serie	International Studies in the History of Rhetoric ; 16
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	699 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
ISBN-10	90-04-46723-8 / 9004467238
ISBN-13	978-90-04-46723-1 / 9789004467231
Zustand	Neuware