Protrepticus (Aristotle)
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Protrepticus is the title of a work by Aristotle that survives only in fragments. Since the 19th century, when inquiry was initiated by Jakob Bernays (1863), several scholars have attempted to reconstruct the work.[1] Attempted reconstructions include:
Quotation [edit]
| “ | What more accurate standard or measure of good things do we have than the Sage? | ” |
References [edit]
- ^ Anton-Hermann Chroust (1965). "A brief account of the reconstruction of Aristotle's Protrepticus". Classical Philology (The University of Chicago Press) 60 (4): 229–239. ISSN 0009-837X.
- ^ Düring, Ingemar; Aristotle (1961). Aristotle's Protrepticus: An attempt at reconstruction. Göteborg, Sweden: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis.
- ^ Chroust, Anton-Hermann; Aristotle (1964). Protrepticus: A reconstruction. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press.
- ^ Quotation from Aristotle's Protrepticus, given on page 147 of Hadot, Pierre; Arnold I. Davidson (1995). Philosophy as a way of life: Spiritual exercises from Socrates to Foucault. Malden, MA: Blackwell. ISBN 0-631-18033-8.
External links [edit]
- Downloadable reconstruction of Protrepticus (Hutchinson & Johnson)
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