Protrepticus (Aristotle)
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:
- A 1961 book by Ingemar Düring[2]
- A 1964 book by Anton-Hermann Chroust[3]
Quotation
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What more accurate standard or measure of good things do we have than the Sage? |
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—Aristotle, Protrepticus[4]
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References
- ^ 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. http://www.jstor.org/stable/269094.
- ^ Düring, Ingemar; Aristotle (1961). Aristotle's Protrepticus: An attempt at reconstruction. Göteborg, Sweden: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis. http://books.google.com/books?id=JFnWAAAAMAAJ&q=Protrepticus&dq=Protrepticus&hl=en&ei=uUgMTcPrJYv4swO-4uXwCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAQ.
- ^ Chroust, Anton-Hermann; Aristotle (1964). Protrepticus: A reconstruction. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press. http://books.google.com/books?id=brNfAAAAMAAJ.
- ^ 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 0631180338. http://books.google.com/books?id=RNDmvMrpr4YC&printsec=frontcover&dq=hadot+isbn:9780631180333&hl=en&ei=QLNQTLDvIIPCsAPNrpTZBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCUQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false.
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