Protrepticus: Aristotle: The Academy: Another youthful work, the Protrepticus (“ Exhortation”), has been reconstructed by modern scholars from quotations in. ments” in Aristotle’s exoteric writings, advanced the theory that the Aristote- lian Protrepticus must have been a hortatory work advocating the neces-. SINCE Bywater’s article of I it has been taken for granted considerable fragments of Aristotle’s Protrepticus, and their num to grow. Scholars, while admitting.
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The Utility of Contemplation in Aristotle’s Protrepticus | Matt Walker –
Enter the email address you signed up with and we’ll email you a reset link. We invite and appreciate feedback: One can agree that the Protrepticus holds that some of the knowledge the philosopher uses in his political judgment is the highest sort of wisdom.
Similarly, at vi Sign in to use this feature. Anton-Hermann Chroust – – Apeiron 1 1: But it is very hard to understand how contemplation, so construed, could be useful for deriving boundary markers of the human good.
Yet if the Pro- trepticus must rely on such a range of arguments to reach its full audience, then we should expect to find some internal tensions in the work.
For Aristotle, perceptive activity is the highest end in the lives of non- rational animals: After all, the master is a useful figure in the life of the slave: Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University’s proxy server Configure custom proxy use this if your affiliation does not provide a proxy.
According to Aristotle, however, contemplation plays a role in providing cog- nitive access to exact measures of the human good. So, although presenting a maximally consistent set of views need not be the ultimate aim of a philosophical protreptic, a consistency of basic argument would nevertheless be important for instrumentally promoting protreptic goals. First, in the light of D. Aristotle’s Protrepticus an Attempt at Reconstruction.
The Cross- roads of Norm and Nature: Hutchinson – – Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker.
John Alexander Perishing before they ever attained maturity, they would never get to lead the perceptive life that characterizes fully developed animals. Likewise, non-rational desires which we share with beasts possess a value for human beings that they lack for gods—i. An Attempt at Reconstruction. But in Protrepticus This page was last edited on 25 Juneat You may be looking for: Unlike plants, animals lack roots and so lack an immediate source of nutriment.
He maintains that although contemplation is not productive, it offers a background perspective that promotes the best practical judgment. Conse- quently, they will grant due weight to their contemplative powers and maintain their non-rational desires under appropriate control.
The Antidosis of Isocrates and Aristotle’s Protrepticus.
An Attempt at Reconstruction. Klubertanz – – Modern Schoolman 43 3: Protreptius all our human possessions, Aristotle insists, only our intellect seems immortal and divine Such a fundamental inconsistency would cancel out whatever particular reasons one would have for pursuing philosophical activity. In this case, although the most perfect forms of contemplation would still possess divine objects, contemplation of divine objects would ulti- mately provide a special sort of cognitive access to boundary markers of the human good.
Protrepticus
Aristotle’s ‘Protrepticus’ and the Sources of Its Reconstruction. Aristotle says that the philosopher 19 I owe this way of encapsulating my thesis to Michael Slote. But there are other responses to the apparent inconsistency, and I turn my attention to them now.
New Scholasticism 40 1: Philosophy as a way protrepyicus life: University of California Press, For those wanting to learn more about the philosophical context of Aristotle’s Protrepticusyou may be interested in the unpublished essays ‘The Antidosis of Iamblichus and Aristotle’s Protrepticus ‘ and ‘Protreptic Aspects of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics’.
Contemplation, he can say, guides and supports the subordinate power of practical reasoning, which in turn supports virtuous patterns of reason-responsive desire.
Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum et Romano- rum Teubneriana. Nevertheless, I argue that Aristotle provides us with clues within the Protrepticus for identifying how the best sort of contemplation can be useful for deriving boundary markers of the human good.
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Allan – – Phronesis 21 3: Views Read Edit View history. Hence, contemplators will simultaneously grant their non-rational desires due weight and so avoid vice in another direction. Since the chapter 10 passage is unfortu- nately not better known, I translate the entire chapter: The Utility of Contemplation in Aristotle’s Protrepticus.
For how will it be nourished? For an imitation of [what is] not fine cannot be fine, nor [can an imitation of what is not] divine and stable in its nature [be] immortal and stable.
If philosophy exists aristotke ought certainly to philosophize, because philosophy exists; and if it does not exist, even so we ought to examine why it does not exist, and in examining this we shall be philosophizing, because examination is what makes philosophy.