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  • Berlin "Griechisehen christlichen Schriftsteller", etc. So far (1908) two volumes have been published: the "Protrepticus" and the

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

  • You can find the remains of Aristotle's Protrepticus or exhortation to philosophy here PDF, as edited by Doug Hutchinson and Monte Johnson here at the University of Toronto.

    Archive 2005-06-01 2005

  • You can find the remains of Aristotle's Protrepticus or exhortation to philosophy here PDF, as edited by Doug Hutchinson and Monte Johnson here at the University of Toronto.

    Aristotle's Protreptic 2005

  • He makes his points by rhetorical tropes, wide-ranging historical references ( "Consider the Middle Ages," he advises, or the span of history "from Epictetus to Malraux"), or by citations from books that he evidently hasn't read or has poorly digested (a reference to a work by Stalin in the Russian, which Lévy does not read, a reference to all of Clement of Alexandria's mammoth Protrepticus, which he has not studied, and so on).

    Paris: Moses and Polytheism Sheehan, Thomas 1980

  • And if we can believe Cicero (Tusculanae Quaestiones 3.69) philoso - phy had in his opinion made such progress in recent years that it would within a short time be "completely worked out (plane absolutam)," i.e., would have reached its appropriate Form (see, however, the doubts of I. Düring, Aristotle's Protrepticus [1961], pp. 229-31).

    PROGRESS IN CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY E. R. DODDS 1968

  • As a curiosity we note that an anonymous Sophist (cf. Iamblichus, Protrepticus, Ch. 20) dwells on the contrast between lawlessness

    SYMMETRY AND ASYMMETRY SALOMON BOCHNER 1968

  • [130] Probably from the lost _Protrepticus_ of Aristotle.

    The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

  • Of his works, the most important is his three-part treatise composed of his _Protrepticus_, an apologetic work addressed to the Greeks; his _Pædegogus_, a treatise on Christian morality; and his _Stromata_, or miscellanies.

    A Source Book for Ancient Church History Joseph Cullen Ayer 1905

  • The best estimate of the great tripartite work (Protrepticus, Pædagogus, Stromateis) is found in

    History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890

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