Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
protreptical .
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- adjective Serving to
instruct ;didactic - noun A didactic speech, book etc
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Examples
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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 Graver, Margaret 2008
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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 Huffman, Carl 2007
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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 Huffman, Carl 2006
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This text belongs to the well-established genre in ancient philosophy of protreptic or exhortational literature.
Elias Wildberg, Christian 2003
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