These pages were created by D. S. Hutchinson and Monte Ransome Johnson and are dedicated to the study of Aristotle's Protrepticus and related classical works of exhortation to philosophy. Here you can find translations of the Greek sources, scholarship related to the problems of reconstructing the lost work, and a bibliography. As Aristotle says: "Whether living successfully consists in enjoyment, or in having virtue, or in wisdom, we should do philosophy, for these things come to us most of all, and in a pure way, through doing philosophy" (apud Iamblichus, Protrepticus, chapter 7).