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  1. Same as protreptical.

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  1. adj. Serving to instruct; didactic
  2. n. A didactic speech, book etc

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  • “The “protreptic” mode is that which convinces hearers, singly or in groups, to care about philosophical study as a means toward personal ethical development.”

    Epictetus

  • “Plato's attempt to argue for the split between the intelligible and sensible world in Books VI and VII of the Republic may well be a protreptic directed at Archytas, who refused to separate numbers from things.”

    Archytas

  • “Book One, On the Pythagorean Life, has biographical aspects but is primarily a detailed description of and a protreptic for the Pythagorean way of life.”

    Pythagoreanism

  • “This text belongs to the well-established genre in ancient philosophy of protreptic or exhortational literature.”

    Elias

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