{"id":1194,"date":"2017-03-24T08:52:18","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T08:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/?p=1194"},"modified":"2025-05-11T08:54:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T08:54:56","slug":"protreptic-writing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/?p=1194","title":{"rendered":"Protreptic Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am grateful to Lambert Wiesing for having described and named a form of writing that does not set out to demonstrate the truth or value of the author&#8217;s views as such, but provides the information the reader needs to examine the issue and come to his or her own conclusion. \u00a0Wiesing calls it <em>protreptic writing<\/em>, and traces it to a book by Sextus Empiricus, a Greek philosopher (c. AD 160 \u2013 c. 210) called <em>Outlines of Pyrrhonism. \u00a0In context,<\/em>\u00a0this kind of writing provides an answer to the question, &#8220;How does a phenomenologist write?&#8221; \u00a0(<em>The Philosophy of Perception: Phenomenology and Image Theory<\/em>, London: Bloomsbury, 2014, pp 60-63).<\/p>\n<p>The image depicts <em>The philosopher Pyrrho from Elis. <\/em>Pyrrho, never wrote anything. \u00a0The term &#8220;pyrrhonic,&#8221; like the anecdote illustrated here, is taken from <em><a title=\"Category:Sextus Empiricus\" href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Category:Sextus_Empiricus\">Sextus Empiricus<\/a>&#8216; Pyrrhonic Sketches (<\/em>Wikimedia Commons, accessed 24 March 2017<em>.).\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am grateful to Lambert Wiesing for having described and named a form of writing that does not set out to demonstrate the truth or value of the author&#8217;s views as such, but provides&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":951,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[189,247],"tags":[117,116,226],"class_list":["post-1194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aesthetics","category-writing","tag-lambert-wiesing","tag-protreptic-writing","tag-sextus-empiricus"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1194"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2970,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions\/2970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}