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Hardback. New. Dorotheus of Gaza and Ascetic Education approaches fundamental questions about the role and function of education in late antiquity through a detailed study of the thought of Dorotheus of Gaza, a sixth-century Palestinian monk. ISBN 0198869266 9780198869269 [GB]
ISBN10: 0198869266, ISBN13: 9780198869269, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover Dorotheus of Gaza and Ascetic Education approaches fundamental questions about the role and function of education in late antiquity through a detailed study of the thought of Dorotheus of Gaza, a sixth-century Palestinian monk.Über den Autor [Greven, Germany] [Publication Year: 2022]
ISBN10: 0198869266, ISBN13: 9780198869269, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. [Southport, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2022]
ISBN10: 0198869266, ISBN13: 9780198869269, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover Book is in NEW condition. 1.2 [Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2022]
ISBN10: 0198869266, ISBN13: 9780198869269, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover Dorotheus of Gaza and Ascetic Education approaches fundamental questions about the role and function of education in late antiquity through a detailed study of the thought of Dorotheus of Gaza, a sixth-century Palestinian monk.Über den Autor [Greven, Germany] [Publication Year: 2022]
ISBN10: 0198869266, ISBN13: 9780198869269, [publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford] Hardcover Hardcover. Dorotheus of Gaza and Ascetic Education approaches fundamental questions about the role and function of education in late antiquity through a detailed study of the thought of Dorotheus of Gaza, a sixth-century Palestinian monk. It illumines the thought of a significant figure in Palestinian monasticism, clarifies relationships between ascetic and classical education, and contributes to debates about how different educational projects related to late-antiquecultural change. Dorotheus appropriates and reconfigures classical discourses of rhetoric, philosophy, and medicine and builds on earlier ascetic traditions. Education is a powerful site for thereconfiguration and reproduction of culture, and Dorotheus' educational programme can be read as a microcosm of the wider culture he aims to construct partly through his adaptation and representation of classical and ascetic discourses. Key features of his educational programme include the role of the notion of godlikeness, the governing role of humility as an epistemic virtue intended to organize affective and ethical development, and his notion of education as life-long habituation. ForDorotheus, education is irreducibly affective and transformative rather than merely informative at the individual and communal scales. His epistemology and ethics are set within an account of the divineplan of salvation which is i ...
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