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pædeia|paɪˈdaɪə|
Also paideia.
[a. Gr. παιδεία child-rearing, education.]
In ancient Greek society: education or upbringing; more gen., a society's culture; the sum of physical and intellectual achievement to which the human body and mind can aspire. Also transf.
[1875F. Hueffer tr. Guhl & Koner's Life of Greeks & Romans 196 The education proper of the boy (παιδεία) became a more public one, while the girl was brought up by the mother at home.] 1939G. Highet tr. Jaeger's Paideia I. ii. iii. 283 The age of Sophocles saw the beginnings of an intellectual movement... This was the movement mentioned in our introductory chapter: it was paideia, education, or rather culture, in the narrower sense. The word paideia, which at its first appearance meant ‘childrearing’, and which in the fourth century, the Hellenistic, and the Imperial Roman ages constantly extended its connotation, was now for the first time connected with the highest areté possible to man: it was used to denote the sum-total of all ideal perfections of mind and body. 1962Listener 30 Aug. 323/2 The Lycurgan training for public service enriched Greek ‘paedeia’. 1967Ibid. 17 Aug. 201/3 Marx is..built into my intellectual experience, what the Greeks would have called my paideia. 1977G. W. H. Lampe God as Spirit ii. 49 Wisdom is a holy spirit of paideia, which, in opposition to materialistic (Epicurean) culture, is the disciplined observance of the Law. |