Pregled bibliografske jedinice broj: 850892
Worldly and Otherworldly Virtue: Likeness to God as Educational Ideal in Plato, Plotinus and Today I
Worldly and Otherworldly Virtue: Likeness to God as Educational Ideal in Plato, Plotinus and Today I // Natur, Kultur, Bildung /Nature, Culture, Bildung, Inter University Center, Dubrovnik
Dubrovnik, Hrvatska, 2016. (predavanje, nije recenziran, sažetak, znanstveni)
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Naslov
Worldly and Otherworldly Virtue: Likeness to God as Educational Ideal in Plato, Plotinus and Today I
(Worldly and Otherworldly Virtue: Likeness to God as Educational Ideal in Plato, Plotinus and Today)
Autori
Zovko, Marie-Elise
Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni
Skup
Natur, Kultur, Bildung /Nature, Culture, Bildung, Inter University Center, Dubrovnik
Mjesto i datum
Dubrovnik, Hrvatska, 01.05.2016
Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje
Vrsta recenzije
Nije recenziran
Ključne riječi
telos; Likeness to God; Becoming like God; homoiosis theoi; paradeigma; archetype; image (eikon); virtue; civic; purificatory; worldly; otherworldly; creativity
Sažetak
In Plato, the doctrine of “Becoming like God” (homoiosis theoi) constitutes the telos of the philosophical life. Our ‘likeness to God’ is rooted in the relationship of the divine paradeigma or archetype to its image established in the generation of the Cosmos. The same relationship makes knowledge and virtue possible, and informs Plato’s theory of education. Related concepts preexist in Judeao- Christian and other traditions and continue to inform our thought on moral and ethical issues, particularly as regards our understanding of what it means to be human. From the idea of ‘likeness to God’, emerges the tradition of philosophical mysticism which has its roots in Plotinus, whose aim is union of the individual soul with its ultimate principle (henosis, unio mystica). The task of realizing virtue in daily life, i.e. civic virtue, appears opposed to the goal of assimilation to the divine, because this higher level of virtue requires a stripping away of finite determinations, and preoccupation with particular things, with the aim of escaping from the multiplicity of sensible and even intelligible reality. This paper considers the inherent opposition between ‘worldly’ and ‘otherworldly’ virtue, as well as previously neglected aspects of "likeness to God" and "becoming like God" in Plato and Plotinus, and explores their continued relevance for pedagogical theory and practice today.
Izvorni jezik
Engleski
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