Bezrogov Vitalii

Care of Oneself in "Adversus Nationes": Arnobius's Conversion into Christian Educator

Abstract

The article deals with the ideas of the Christian apologist of the 3rd - 4th centuries on the issues of man’s self-regard, his anthropological status and possibilities of the personality as a self-transcending subject. It is shown how the dialogue of Christian and Greco-Roman concepts of education produced a particular pedagogical concept that helps to move from the latter to the former.

Keywords

self-regard, self-transformation, Christian education.

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Bezrogov Vitalii