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is not new to the listener, but that is considered traditional and already known. The speaker is not instructing the listener, but rather reminding. Other formal characteristics include compliments for already adhering to what is exhorted, encouragement to continue in the same fashion, an example (often delineated antithetically and usually a family member, particularly the speaker's father).
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Malherbe defines paraenesis as being "broader in scope than protrepsis", and as "moral exhortation in which someone is advised to pursue or abstain from something". Its formal characteristics include the occurrence of phrases such as "as you know", indicating that the speaker is covering ground that
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In other words, the distinction often employed by modern writers is that protrepsis is conversion literature, where a philosopher aims to convert outsiders to following a particular philosophical path, whereas paraenesis is aimed at those who already follow that path, giving them advice on how best
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protrepsis is the philosopher's proper mode of exhortation. Together with refutation and reproof, which exposes the human condition , and teaching, protrepsis does not make an oratorical display but reveals the inner inconsistency in the philosopher's hearers and brings them to
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to follow it. This is not a universally-held distinction. Swancutt, observing Stowers' recognition that the two ideas were not formally distinguished in this way by classical philosophers, argues, for example, that the modern distinction is a
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for advice and exhortation to continue in a certain way of life. The terms however were used this way only sometimes and not consistently in antiquity.
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The modern distinction between the two ideas, as generally used in modern scholarship, is explained by Stanley Stowers thus:
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Diana M. Swancutt (2006). "Paraenesis in Light of Protrepsis". In James Starr and Troels Engberg-Pedersen (ed.).
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Classical writers' perspectives differed from the modern view. For example: Malherbe's explanation of
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in reference to hortatory literature that calls the audience to a new and different way of life, and
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There have been many writers of protreptics in the ancient world, including:
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De Exhortationum a Graecis Romanisque scriptarum historia et indole
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Stanley K. Stowers (1986). "Letters of Exhortation and Advice".
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Aristotle's Protrepticus and the Sources of its Reconstruction
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The following list has been taken from: Rabinowitz, W. G.,
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differentiated between protrepsis and paraenesis in his
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Abraham J. Malherbe (1986). "Styles of Exhortation".
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rhetoric
Greek
exhortation
moral philosophers
Clement of Alexandria
Paedagogus
Pseudo-Justin
Paraenetic Address to the Greeks
Magnus Felix Ennodius
false dichotomy
Epictetus
Discourses
Protrepticus
Theophrastus
Antisthenes
Aristo of Chios
Cleanthes
Persaeus of Citium
Epicurus
Chrysippus of Soli
Posidonius
Augustus
Seneca
Musonius Rufus
Epictetus
Galen
Lesbonax of Mytilene
Clement of Alexandria
Themistius
Protrepticus (Aristotle)

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