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ISBN: 9782503568553 2503568556 Year: 2019 Publisher: Turnhout Brepols Publishers
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Philosophy has never been an obvious life choice, especially in the absence of apparent practical usefulness. The intellectual effort and moral discipline it exacts appeared uninviting “from the outside.” However, the philosophical ideals of theoretical precision and living virtuously are what has shaped the cultural landscape of the West since Antiquity. This paradox arose because the ancients never confined their philosophy to the systematic exposition of doctrine. Orations, treatises, dialogues and letters aimed at persuading people to become lovers of wisdom, not metaphorically, but truly and passionately. Rhetorical feats, logical intricacies, or mystical experience served to recruit adherents, to promote and defend philosophy, to support adherents and guide them towards their goal. Protreptic (from the Greek, “to exhort,” “to convert”) was the literary form that served all these functions. Content and mode of expression varied considerably when targeting classical Greek aristocracy, Hellenistic schoolrooms or members of the early Church where the tradition of protreptic was soon appropriated. This volume seeks to illuminate both the diversity and the continuity of protreptic in the work of a wide range of authors, from Parmenides to Augustine. The persistence of the literary form bears witness to a continued fascination with the call of wisdom.
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ISBN: 9579888779 9789579888776 Year: 2002 Publisher: 台中縣: 明目文化事業有限公司,
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Year: 1959 Publisher: Leiden : Brill,
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Year: 1964 Publisher: Napoli : Libreria scientifica editrice,
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Publisher: Torino : Edizioni di filosofia,
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ISBN: 0199644144 9780199644148 0191662275 0191662283 Year: 2017 Publisher: OUP Oxford
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Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), Rome's greatest orator, had a career of intense activity in politics, the law courts and the administration, mostly in Rome. His fortunes, however, followed those of Rome, and he found himself driven into exile in 58 BC, only to return a year later to a city paralyzed by the domination of Pompey, Crassus, and Caesar. Cicero, though a senior statesman, struggled to maintain his independence and it was during these years that, frustrated in public life, he first started to put his excess energy, stylistic brilliance, and superabundant vocabulary into writing these works of philosophy. The three dialogues collected here are the most accessible of Cicero's works, written to his friends Atticus and Brutus, with the intent of popularizing philosophy in Ancient Rome. They deal with the everyday problems of life; ethics in business, the experience of grief, and the difficulties of old age. -- Amazon.com
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ISBN: 0761869662 9780761869665 Year: 2018 Publisher: Lanham (Md.) : Hamilton,
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Year: 1936 Publisher: London, : Watts,
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Year: 1856 Publisher: Cambridge, : Macmillan,
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