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The Virtue of Being Uneducated : Attitudes towards Classical Paideia in Early Monasticism and Ancient Philosophy

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Author

  • Henrik Rydell Johnsén

Editor

  • Samuel Rubenson
  • Lillian Larsen

Publishing year

2015

Language

English

Publication/Series

Monastic Education in Late Antiquity : The Transformation of Classical Paideia

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Topic

  • Philosophy, Ethics and Religion

Keywords

  • early monasticism
  • paideia
  • education
  • liberal arts
  • books
  • uneducated
  • illiterate
  • oral
  • Apophthegmata patrum
  • Vita Antonii
  • Cynicism
  • Epicureanism

Status

Submitted

Project

  • Early Monasticism and Classical Paideia