family life. The adjective "ascetic" derives from the ancient Greek 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 Greek 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 Greek: 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 Greek...

literally, pre-studying bad future) 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...

who lived in the desert and dedicated themselves to spiritual exercise (askesis), reaching, as far as possible, perfection in Christ. The Just, those who...

(κάθαρσις katharsis) — a form of asceticism in the original sense: ἄσκησις askēsis initially signifies a ritual, then a specific way of life. Vegetarianism...

web-based human resources consulting and benefits administration services; and Askesis Development Group, a software development group for behavioral health care...

Christian East, especially the practices of faith (praxis) and asceticism (askesis) that they frequently taught as the way to reach direct experience of God...

little worldly ambition, and were forced to endure severe training or "Askesis". Benko compares this training to that undergone by monks in the Egyptian...

Gruyter: 2015: ISBN 978-3-11-041867-5 Logan, Barbara Ellen (2002). The Askesis of Abjection: The Ethics of Everyday Suffering in Early Christian Martyrdoms...

still intervene between straight linear narrative – but are uniformly of askesis and alone-ness – and have a more pronounced "prose-painting" feel to them...

originality of the predecessor's work and perpetuate the greatness of their own. Askesis – Bloom defines this as a "movement of self-purgation which intends the...

happy, lives. Thus, happiness can be gained through rigorous training (askesis, Greek: ἄσκησις) and by living in a way which was natural for humans, rejecting...

different aspects of the Cynic way of life, as part of a rigorous training (askesis). Thus instructions and explanations are given on whom (and whom not) to...

Orthodoxy or Catholicism. The word ascetic is from the Greek word ἄσκησις askesis, meaning practice. The English term ascesis means "the practice of self-discipline"...

Pater and Wilde (Brno, CZ: Masaryk University Press, 2006) John Potvin, "Askesis as Aesthetic Home: Edward Perry Warren, Lewes House, and the Ideal of Greek...

University of the Arts. Theoria for fifteen winds, piano and percussion Askesis (Cycles II) for 14 players Elegy (on Texts of Rilke) for soprano and small...