Promoting a New Kind of Education: Greek and Roman Philosophical Protreptic

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-46723-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 16, 328 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 699 g

Reihe: International Studies in the History of Rhetoric

Authors of Greek and Roman philosophical protreptics imitate a kind of exhortation initially associated with Socrates, creating a thread of typically protreptic intertextuality that classifies protreptic as a genre of philosophical literature. Tracing this intertextuality from the Socratic authors to Boethius, the book shows how Greek and Roman protreptics define philosophy as a revisionary form of education, articulate the ultimate goals of this education, and associate their authors and audiences with philosophy as a new discursive practice and a new way of living. These texts constitute the first chapter in the history of educational revision and thus offer thoughts that continue to inform every debate on educational goals.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Markovich, Daniel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Antike Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Philosophie, LER (Unterricht & Didaktik)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

1 Introduction: A New Way of Living

1 From Socratic Protreptic to Philosophical Protreptic

2 Philosophical Protreptic as a Form of Deliberation

3 Reading Philosophical Protreptic

2 Entering the Dialogue: Socrates and the Socratic Authors

1 Aeschines of Sphettos

2 Plato

3 Xenophon

4 Conclusions

3 Philosophy as Theoretical Observation: Aristotle’s Protreptic

1 The Reconstruction of Aristotle’s Protreptic

2 The Content of Aristotle’s Protreptic

3 Aristotle’s Dialogue with Plato

4 Aristotle and Isocrates

5 Aristotle and His Audiences

6 Conclusions

4 Philosophy as Therapy: Hellenistic Authors

1 Expanding the Audience

2 Epicurus: Happiness for Everyone

3 Early and Middle Stoic Authors

4 The New Academy: Philo of Larissa

5 Middle Platonism: Eudorus of Alexandria

6 Conclusions

5 Philosophy and Politics: Roman Paideia

1 Greek Philosophy in Rome

2 Lucretius: A View from Above

3 Cicero: Platonic Politics

4 Seneca: A Fellow Convalescent

5 Conclusions

6 Socrates in Rome: Greek Authors of the Empire

1 Being a Philosopher in the Period of the Second Sophistic

2 Musonius Rufus: Lucius’s Socrates

3 Epictetus: Arrian’s Socrates

4 Dio of Prusa: Socrates in Exile

5 Lucian of Samosata: Protreptic under a Comic and Satirical Mask

6 Excursus: Exhortations to Medicine and to Christianity

7 Conclusions

7 The Unity of Philosophy Reclaimed: Neoplatonism

1 Neoplatonic Tendencies

2 Iamblichus: A Protreptic Anthology

3 Themistius: Philosophy and Rhetoric Reconciled

4 Boethius: A Protreptic to Himself

5 Conclusions

Conclusions

1 Typical Arguments

2 The Protreptic Worldview and The Philosophy of Education

3 Rhetorical Strategies

4 Rhetorical Goals

5 Philosophical Protreptic and Other Types of Philosophical Literature

Epilogue

Appendix: Examples of Philosophical Protreptic

Editions, Commentaries, and Translations

Secondary Bibliography

Indices

Über Autor(innen)

Daniel Markovich, Ph.D. in Classical Philology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2006), is an Associate Professor in Classics at the University of Cincinnati. He has published on Greco-Roman rhetorical theory, Roman Epicureanism (including a monograph on The Rhetoric of Explanation in Lucretius’ De rerum natura, Brill 2008), and Roman reception of Empedocles.