How Long to Read Exhortations to Philosophy

How Long Does it Take to Read Exhortations to Philosophy?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 30 minutes to read Exhortations to Philosophy by James Henderson Collins II

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This book is a study of the literary strategies which the first professional philosophers used to market their respective disciplines. Philosophers of fourth-century BCE Athens developed the emerging genre of the "protreptic" (literally, "turning" or "converting"). Simply put, protreptic discourse uses a rhetoric of conversion that urges a young person to adopt a specific philosophy in order to live a good life. The author argues that the fourth-century philosophers used protreptic discourses to market philosophical practices and to define and legitimize a new cultural institution: the school...

How long is Exhortations to Philosophy?

Exhortations to Philosophy by James Henderson Collins II is 384 pages long, and a total of 97,536 words.

This makes it 130% the length of the average book. It also has 119% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Exhortations to Philosophy Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 52 minutes to read Exhortations to Philosophy aloud.

What Reading Level is Exhortations to Philosophy?

Exhortations to Philosophy is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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