Being in antiquity

Roy, Kaustuv (2019) Being in antiquity. In: Education and the ontological question : addressing a missing dimension. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, pp. 25-80. ISBN 9783030111779

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Abstract

Ancient Egypt, Greece, India, and Christendom, among others, historically suggest themselves as veritable treasure-troves for ontological exploration, each having identifiable source events, powerful mythopoeic traditions, and revelations that exploded over a geographical region producing the ethos-aesthetics of a people. Coming at ontology from different angles, these sustained explorations of antiquity, sometimes across the span of more than a thousand years, are among the most powerful human inquiries into existential meaning and truth. This priceless human heritage must not be locked away in the museum of knowledge; it was never meant to be forgotten, but to be remembered and engaged with again and again in a practice of anamnesis. Thus the archeological work incumbent upon us here could justifiably begin by looking at these wisdom traditions and their corresponding ontological foundations.

Item Type: Book Section
Authors: Roy, Kaustuv
Uncontrolled Keywords: Social phenomenology, One-dimensional education, Curriculum theory, Affective ecology, Exegesis
Subjects: Social sciences > Education
Divisions: Azim Premji University > School of Education
Full Text Status: Restricted
URI: http://publications.azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/id/eprint/1828
Publisher URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11178-6_2

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