Studies of Protreptic Aspects of Aristotle's Works
Aristotle theorized about exhortative (“protreptic”) rhetoric in his treatise on the Art of Rhetoric , and he also authored a popular work (the Protrepticus ) that exhorted the youth to do philosophy. Although the popular work has been lost, efforts to reconstruct it have met with some success, and it is possible to detect its influence on various works in the Aristotle Corpus that have survived. The 13 original essays in this volume examine protreptic aspects of Aristotle’s works, including the account in the Rhetoric , the adaptation of the Protrepticus in works such as On the Parts of Animals , the Metaphysics , and the Eudemian and Nicomachean Ethics , protreptics offered to specialized fields (such as medicine, biology, theology, and legislation), and the deployment of protreptic themes and argumentative strategies, particularly in ethical works.
