Sentences with phrase «which paideia»

Thus there are schools in which paideia's focus on students» understanding of God plays almost no role whatever, neither in shaping what is taught and how, nor in the conventions governing how faculty and students interrelate, how faculty are selected, and how the school manages its common life.

Because it was the picture of schooling celebrated in the culture of ancient Greece, we will let «Athens» stand for a type of schooling for which paideia is the heart of education.

For Wood we do not need to posit something ahistorically and cross-culturally universal to all human beings, something «objective» like an invisible and immortal soul (which paideia presupposed in ancient Athens), of which «dispositions» and «character traits» are modifications.

Not exact matches

In current discussions of the nature and purpose of theological education Edward Farley has invoked the older of these two models of excellence in schooling when he describes his book Theologia as an essay «which purports to promote a Christian paideia.»

However, Jaeger argues, «it is clear that he applies it in a much wider sense in his letter and, while using Scriptural testimony, he himself conceives of paideia as precisely that which he offers the Corinthians in his whole letter....

Within two generations after Plato the political autonomy of the Greek city - states, which had been the original context of paideia, had been destroyed by the relentless spread of Alexander's empire from Macedonia to India.

During the social and political turmoil of the centuries following Alexander's death — in which his empire was dismembered, the «members» seemed continuously to war with one another, and then were largely absorbed into Rome's growing empire — the practice of paideia continued to be the dominant force shaping the educated classes.

For the tradition to which Plato had been heir, paideia was as essential to the well - being of the public realm as of the political realm, by forming virtuous citizens capable of filling political roles wisely; for fourth - century Greek - speaking Christians paideia, while it aimed to shape persons» private interiority rather than their public political activity, contributed to the well - being of the public realm as a cultural realm accessible to any literate, educated person, Christian or pagan.

At most, the teacher «teaches» only indirectly by providing the context in which the student may be graced himself or herself to come to that combination of immediate self - knowledge and God - knowledge which is the aim of paideia.

He describes the origins and evolution of the first, «paideia,» which has its roots in the ancient Greco - Roman world.

As we saw in chapter 2, North American theological schools are located on various «Roads» and «Streets,» all of which in one way or another have historically taken paideia as the model of excellent schooling.

In his view pagan paideia was «the gradual fulfillment of the divine providence,» [13] culminating in the paideia which was Christianity.

Even more striking is the explicit use of the traditional concept of paideia in a letter written in A.D. 90 by the bishop of Rome, Clement, to the church in Corinth, which was badly divided by controversy.

If the latter is stressed, technique becomes dominant, the substance by which the student is to be «molded» is lost, and again schooling ceases truly to be paideia.

However, this is not understood in the way in which the «Athens» type understands paideia.

This makes it sound, ironically, as though the way to acquire wissenschaftlich disciplines is through some kind of paideia (which is precisely Farley's claim).

Paideia, after all, also involved inquiry, especially into texts (classically, Homer; then also the poets; then the philosophers, especially Plato), the study of which was deemed to be the indirect way to come to know the Good itself.

(1) The goal of paideia, which is the cultivation of the excellence or arete of the soul, consists not in acquiring a clutch of virtues but in knowledge of the Good itself Education as paideia is defined as inquiry into a single, underlying principle of all virtues, their essence.

Classically, paideia focused study on texts and, while it cultivated capacities to test the cogency of arguments critically, it was uncritical of received or traditional authorities to which arguments might appeal.

The deep exploration complex texts in a Paideia seminar helps jumpstart the writing process by giving students a forum in which to express their own ideas about the text and refine those ideas in response to the comments of others.

Thomas MacLaren High School (Colorado Springs)- is the only public «classical «high school in Colorado with strict attention to the Paideia education philosophy which comes from the Greeks and the University of Chicago.