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 of higher learning (the first in Western history).

The little known story of perhaps the most productive Congress in US history, the First Federal Congress of 1789–1791. The First Congress was the most important in US history, says prizewinning author and historian Fergus Bordewich, because it established how our government would actually function. Had it failed—as many at the time feared it would—it's possible that the United States as we know it would not exist today.

Performer First Tutor is the course for the preparation of First certification exam that has a thematic parallelism and typological with Performer Culture & Literature, the renowned English course that responds to the new needs of the school, integrating in a harmonic and motivating the study of culture, literature and language (level B2).

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First conditional

In this video, you will learn the grammar rules for the first conditional and how we use it in English.
It explains the future time clauses that we can use as well as how to use the first conditional with modal verbs.
It gives plenty of examples throughout the lesson as well as dialogues.
Finally It explains the difference between the first conditional and the zero conditional....

This work - the first full-length account of its theme in English - identifies Kants doctrine of inner sense as a central, and problematic, element within the architectonic of pure reason of the first Critique. Its exegesis exposes two, variant construals of the character and capacities of inner sense: the first, positive construal functions in Kants account of the nature of knowledge in the Transcendental Analytic, while the second, negative construal functions in Kants account of the limits of knowledge in the Transcendental Dialectic.