| This text belongs to the well-established genre in ancient philosophy of protreptic or exhortational literature. |
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| He put his literary skills, human experience, and common sense at the service of his protreptic and paedagogic purpose. |
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| These writings, 'on nature'on'on truth', 'on being' and so on, mostly in prose, some in verse, were demonstrative, not protreptic. |
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| This sort of discourse seeks to persuade, and in the case of Bronté has both protreptic and paranetic aspects. |
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| Plato felt he had literary rivals, and this may explain this somewhat odd combination of esoterism, protreptic and apology in a literarily brilliant form. |
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| Punk is sometimes effective in articulating a critique of capitalism with a protreptic energy capable of positioning its audience in struggles over justice and social change. |
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| Plato's attempt to argue for the split between the intelligible and sensible world in Books VI and VII of the Republic may well be a protreptic directed at Archytas, who refused to separate numbers from things. |
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| Book One, On the Pythagorean Life, has biographical aspects but is primarily a detailed description of and a protreptic for the Pythagorean way of life. |
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