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Worldly and Otherworldly Virtue: Likeness to God as Educational Ideal in Plato, Plotinus and Today
At: Natur, Kultur, Bildung /Nature, Culture, Bildung, Inter University Center, Dubrovnik. Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2016. urn:nbn:hr:261:832391
Zovko, Marie-Élise

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Zovko, Marie Élise. "Worldly and Otherworldly Virtue: Likeness to God as Educational Ideal in Plato, Plotinus and Today." Natur, Kultur, Bildung /Nature, Culture, Bildung, Inter University Center, Dubrovnik, 01.10.2016.-05.10.2016., Dubrovnik, Croatia. Presentation. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:261:832391

Zovko, Marie Élise. "Worldly and Otherworldly Virtue: Likeness to God as Educational Ideal in Plato, Plotinus and Today." Presentation at Natur, Kultur, Bildung /Nature, Culture, Bildung, Inter University Center, Dubrovnik, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 01.10.2016.-05.10.2016. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:261:832391

Zovko, M. É. 'Worldly and Otherworldly Virtue: Likeness to God as Educational Ideal in Plato, Plotinus and Today' [Presentation], Natur, Kultur, Bildung /Nature, Culture, Bildung, Inter University Center, Dubrovnik. 01.10.2016.-05.10.2016. Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:261:832391

Zovko MÉ. Worldly and Otherworldly Virtue: Likeness to God as Educational Ideal in Plato, Plotinus and Today. [Presentation] [cited 2024 April 21] Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:261:832391

M. É. Zovko, "Worldly and Otherworldly Virtue: Likeness to God as Educational Ideal in Plato, Plotinus and Today", presented at: Natur, Kultur, Bildung /Nature, Culture, Bildung, Inter University Center, Dubrovnik, Dubrovnik, 01.10.2016.-05.10.2016. Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:261:832391

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Title (english)Worldly and Otherworldly Virtue: Likeness to God as Educational Ideal in Plato, Plotinus and Today
AuthorMarie-Élise Zovko
Author's institutionInstitute of Philosophy
Scientific / art field,
discipline and subdiscipline		HUMANISTIC SCIENCES
Philosophy
Abstract (english)
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.
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URN:NBNurn:nbn:hr:261:832391
Presentation date2016-10-01
ConferenceTitle: Natur, Kultur, Bildung /Nature, Culture, Bildung, Inter University Center, Dubrovnik
Location: Dubrovnik, Croatia
Start date: 2016-10-01
End date: 2016-10-05
Assembly type: Lecture
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