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- catalog abstract "The Journey to Wisdom addresses a broad array of topics in education, the natural world, and medieval intellectual history. The book examines a philosophy of education that originated with the ancient Greeks and that reached its culmination in the late-medieval and early-Renaissance periods. That philosophy of education promotes a journey to wisdom, involving an escape from pure subjectivity and "the seductions of rhetoric" and leading to a profound awareness of the natural world and "nature's God." It grants us a renewed sense of education as a self-directed, transforming journey to knowledge and insight - rather than (as is so often the case now) as an impersonal, bureaucratized trek that reflects little sense of the ultimate aims of education. The Journey of Wisdom will be essential reading for students of ancient, medieval, and Renaissance intellectual history. But in its unmistakably modern concerns about education, the book also speaks to a far wider spectrum of readers.".
- catalog contributor b8221021.
- catalog created "c1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "c1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "The Journey to Wisdom addresses a broad array of topics in education, the natural world, and medieval intellectual history. The book examines a philosophy of education that originated with the ancient Greeks and that reached its culmination in the late-medieval and early-Renaissance periods. That philosophy of education promotes a journey to wisdom, involving an escape from pure subjectivity and "the seductions of rhetoric" and leading to a profound awareness of the natural world and "nature's God." It grants us a renewed sense of education as a self-directed, transforming journey to knowledge and insight - rather than (as is so often the case now) as an impersonal, bureaucratized trek that reflects little sense of the ultimate aims of education. The Journey of Wisdom will be essential reading for students of ancient, medieval, and Renaissance intellectual history. But in its unmistakably modern concerns about education, the book also speaks to a far wider spectrum of readers.".
- catalog description "The journey through the natural world -- The journey to Sophia: Plato's Sophists and forms of education -- Philosophy, the creation, and learning: Gregory Thaumaturgos and origen -- Augustine's Confessions: naming, education, and empire -- Reading the Confessions: Boethius, Aelred, Dante, and Petrarch -- The heroic educational journey: virgil and medieval epic subcreation -- Boethius's return to Plato and wisdom -- Boethius's wisdom and Dante's architectonics of desire -- Plato revisited: the Florentine Platonists and the astronomers -- Fables for our time.".
- catalog extent "xi, 297 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Journey to wisdom.".
- catalog identifier "0803235623 (cl. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Journey to wisdom.".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "c1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press,".
- catalog relation "Journey to wisdom.".
- catalog subject "370/.94/0902 20".
- catalog subject "Comparative education.".
- catalog subject "Education Social aspects.".
- catalog subject "Education, Medieval.".
- catalog subject "LA93 .O47 1995".
- catalog subject "Literature, Medieval History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Self-culture.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The journey through the natural world -- The journey to Sophia: Plato's Sophists and forms of education -- Philosophy, the creation, and learning: Gregory Thaumaturgos and origen -- Augustine's Confessions: naming, education, and empire -- Reading the Confessions: Boethius, Aelred, Dante, and Petrarch -- The heroic educational journey: virgil and medieval epic subcreation -- Boethius's return to Plato and wisdom -- Boethius's wisdom and Dante's architectonics of desire -- Plato revisited: the Florentine Platonists and the astronomers -- Fables for our time.".
- catalog title "The journey to wisdom : self-education in patristic and medieval literature / Paul A. Olson.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".