Exhortations To Philosophy The Protreptics Of Plato, Isocrates, And Aristotle

Exhortations To Philosophy The Protreptics Of Plato, Isocrates, And Aristotle

Author: JAMES HENDERSON COLLINS II

Year: 1900

Introduction 1 1. Protreptic and the “Rhetoric of Conversion” 1 2. Earlier Protreptic Configurations 7 3. Genre Theory and Προτρεπτικὸς Λόγος 16 4. The Rhetorical Situation and Objective of Προτρεπτικὸς Λόγος 34 PART ONE: Platonic Protreptic 1. Levels of Discourse in Plato’s Dialogues 45 2. Narrative between Socrates and Crito 53 2.1. Crito and his Agenda 54 2.2. Socrates the Storyteller 57 3. From Narrative to Drama: Inside the Intradiegetic Level 63 3.1. Characters on Stage: Sophists, Socrates, Cleinias, Ctesippus 63 3.2. Dramatic Elements: Staging, Cheering, Seating 70 3.3. Apotreptic in Protreptic Discourse 82 3.4. Formal Features of the Protreptic Παράδειγμα 87 4. Return to the Extradiegetic Level: Metalepsis, Protreptic, and Apotreptic 4.1. From Spectator to Judge to Interlocutor: Crito’s “Turn” in Scene 4 (Euthyd. 289d–293a) 124 4.2. Isocratean Apotreptic and Private Program (304c–305b) 133 4.3. Socrates’s Apotreptic of the Apotreptic (305b–307c) 140 5. Creating Consumers and Consensus in the Protagoras 145 5.1. Staging a Contest among Converts 146 5.2. Preparing Consumers for the Marketplace of Ideas 156 5.3. Protreptic that Builds Consensus 159 5.4. Clitophon and after the