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.