James Henderson Collins: 1 book
Exhortations to Philosophy
The Protreptics of Plato, Isocrates, and Aristotle
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
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"). Simply put, protreptic discourse...
