Dorotheus of Gaza and Ascetic education /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
[2022]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Oxford early Christian studies.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- List of Abbreviations
- 1. Education and Asceticism in Late-Antique Gaza
- Thinking about Education
- Dorotheus of Gaza
- Dorotheus on Ascetic Paideia
- 2. Rhetoric, Philosophy, Medicine: Internalizing Foreign Teaching
- Introduction
- Rhetoric
- Philosophy
- Medicine
- Conclusions: Ascetic Paideia and Transformation
- 3. Education and Epistemology
- Introduction: Ways of Knowing and Ordering Knowledge
- Philosophical Prolegomena
- Hierarchies of Knowing
- The Epistemology of Dorotheus' Pedagogy: Humility, Godlikeness, and Knowledge
- The Practice of Death and Ascetic Epistemology
- Humility as an Epistemic Virtue
- Humility and Epistemological Authority
- Conclusions: The Goals of Ascetic Education and Epistemology
- 4. Education, Emotion, and Virtue
- Introduction
- Theorizing Emotions in Ascetic Education
- Emotional Norms in Dorotheus' Classroom
- Emotions in Dorotheus' Psychology
- Virtue and Affective Cognition: Attentive Pilgrimage and Vigilance in Excising the Passions
- Affective Virtues for Monastic Community
- Conclusions: Ethical and Emotional Transformation
- 5. Education, Habituation, and Moral Development
- Introduction
- Habituation and Learning Virtue
- Moral Development as a Craft: 'On Building up and Fine-tuning the Virtues of the Soul'
- Popular Ethics and Habit Formation in Community
- Dramatizing Exemplarity: Habituating Mind and Will
- Work
- Prayer
- Conclusions: Imitation, Temporality, and Moral Development
- 6. Conclusion: Education and Transformation
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- General Index.