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- family life. The adjective "ascetic" derives from the ancient Gr**** term áskēsis, which means "training" or "exercise". The original usage did not refer...
- ratios" by Bloom. They are clinamen, tessera, kenosis, daemonization, askesis, and apophrades. Bloom introduces his six revisionary ratios in the following...
- thinkers in London (1796-1807). The name was taken from the Gr**** term Askesis, meaning 'training' or 'application'. Founded on 23 March 1796 in London...
- progresses towards flourishing and clarity through ascetic practices (ἄσκησις, áskēsis) which help one become free from influences such as wealth, fame, and power...
- claims; it is a way of life involving constant practice and training (or "askēsis"), an active process of constant practice and self-reminder. Epictetus...
- Opposite of proêgmena. aretê ἀρετή: Virtue. Goodness and human excellence. askêsis ἄσκησις: disciplined training designed to achieve virtue. ataraxia ἀταραξία:...
- conducted through ascetic effort to purify the soul (asceticism from Gr****: askesis "exercise"). At the advanced stages this involves "bringing the mind into...
- History of Civilization [DVD], Koch Vision. Potvin, John (March 2011). "Askesis as Aesthetic Home: Edward Perry Warren, Lewes House, and the Ideal of Gr****...
- literally, pre-studying bad ****ure) is a method of meditative praxis or askēsis by visualization of the worst-case scenario(s). The method originated with...
- 1848. Geschichtliches Über Askesis der Alten Heidnischen und der alten Jüdischen Welt als Einleitung einer Geschichte der Askesis des Christlichen Mönchthums...