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Exhortations to Philosophy
Author | : James Henderson Collins II |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2015-03-27 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780190266547 |
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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 uses a rhetoric of conversion that urges a young person to adopt a specific philosophy in order to live a good life. The author argues that the fourth-century philosophers used protreptic discourses to market philosophical practices and to define and legitimize a new cultural institution: the school of higher learning (the first in Western history). Specifically, the book investigates how competing educators in the fourth century produced protreptic discourses by borrowing and transforming traditional and contemporary "voices" in the cultural marketplace. They aimed to introduce and promote their new schools and define the new professionalized discipline of "philosophy." While scholars have typically examined the discourses and practices of Plato, Isocrates, and Aristotle in isolation from one another, this study rather combines philosophy, narratology, genre theory, and new historicism to focus on the discursive interaction between the three philosophers: each incorporates the discourse of his competitors into his protreptics. Appropriating and transforming the discourses of their competition, these intellectuals created literary texts that introduced their respective disciplines to potential students.
Exhortations to Philosophy
Author | : James Henderson Collins II |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2015-03-04 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780199358601 |
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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 uses a rhetoric of conversion that urges a young person to adopt a specific philosophy in order to live a good life. The author argues that the fourth-century philosophers used protreptic discourses to market philosophical practices and to define and legitimize a new cultural institution: the school of higher learning (the first in Western history). Specifically, the book investigates how competing educators in the fourth century produced protreptic discourses by borrowing and transforming traditional and contemporary "voices" in the cultural marketplace. They aimed to introduce and promote their new schools and define the new professionalized discipline of "philosophy." While scholars have typically examined the discourses and practices of Plato, Isocrates, and Aristotle in isolation from one another, this study rather combines philosophy, narratology, genre theory, and new historicism to focus on the discursive interaction between the three philosophers: each incorporates the discourse of his competitors into his protreptics. Appropriating and transforming the discourses of their competition, these intellectuals created literary texts that introduced their respective disciplines to potential students.
Iamblichus the Exhortation to Philosophy
Author | : Iamblichus |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0933999631 |
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Rare work by a fourth-century philosopher is also an introduction to the study of Plato.
Early Greek Ethics
Author | : David Conan Wolfsdorf |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 828 |
Release | : 2020-05-22 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780198758679 |
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Early Greek Ethics is the first volume devoted to philosophical ethics in its "formative" period. It explores contributions from the Presocratics, figures of the early Pythagorean tradition, sophists, and anonymous texts, as well as topics influential to ethical philosophical thought such as Greek medicine, music, friendship, and justice.
Thought A Philosophical History
Author | : Panayiota Vassilopoulou,Daniel Whistler |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2021-05-03 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780429816864 |
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Of all the topics in the history of philosophy, the history of different forms of thinking and contemplation is one of the most important, and yet is also relatively overlooked. What is it to think philosophically? How did different forms of thinking—reflection, contemplation, critique and analysis—emerge in different epochs? This collection offers a rich and diverse philosophical exploration of the history of contemplation, from the classical period to the twenty-first century. It covers canonical figures including Plato, Aristotle, Descartes and Kant, as well as debates in less well-known areas such as classical Indian and Islamic thought and the role of speculation in twentieth-century Russian philosophy. Comprising twenty-two chapters by an international team of contributors, the volume is divided into five parts: • Flourishing and Thinking from Homer to Hume • The Thinking of Thinking from Augustine to Gödel • Images and Thinking from Plotinus to Unger • Bodies of Thought and Habits of Thinking from Plato to Irigaray • The Efficacy of Thinking from Sextus to Bataille Thought: A Philosophical History is the first comprehensive investigation of the history of philosophical thought and contemplation. As such, it is a landmark publication for anyone researching and teaching the history of philosophy, and a valuable resource for those studying the subject in related fields such as literature, religion, sociology and the history of ideas.
Religious and Philosophical Conversion in the Ancient Mediterranean Traditions
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 489 |
Release | : 2022-03-07 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9789004501775 |
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This volume explores conversion experience in the ancient Mediterranean with attention to early Judaism, early Christianity, and philosophy in the Roman empire from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Tables for Students of Moral Philosophy
Author | : Daniel R. Chadwick |
Publsiher | : University Press of America |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 2003-12-30 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0761827013 |
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One-page tables summarize the basic positions and arguments concerning major topics in moral philosophy, including: metaethics, moral values and justification, the major theories and contributions of individual philosophers, citizen ethics, and bioethics. Unfortunately, there is no index, and the ta
Cicero s Philosophy of History
Author | : Matthew Fox,Senior Lecturer in Classics Matthew Fox |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages | : 359 |
Release | : 2007-09-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780199211920 |
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A provocative study of Cicero's use of history, revealing that, rather than promoting his own values, Cicero uses historical representation to explore the difficulties of finding any ideological coherence in Rome's political or cultural traditions.