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#80856
09/15/2002 8:11 PM
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Slings believes that the dialogue is a critique not of Socrates, nor even of the literary
Socrates, but of a specific branch of Socratic literature, namely philosophical protreptic
.protreptic
adj.
intended as instructional; didactic
n.
a book, speech, etc. that is protreptic
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#80857
09/16/2002 11:58 AM
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wwh,
So, is protreptic the quivalent of didactic?
Be fun to look at the roots of each...
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#80858
09/16/2002 12:32 PM
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is protreptic the quivalent of didactic?
Are you offering this as a pacific example?
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09/16/2002 1:13 PM
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Here's something from MW:
"Etymology: Late Latin protrepticus hortatory, encouraging, from
Greek protreptikos, from protrepein to turn forward, urge on, from
pro- + trepein to turn"
Hortatory is such a terrific word. Thanks, Faldage, for hortatorially turning me away from dropping letters. It's much more fun to add them.
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