Recovering Leisure: Otium as the Basis of Education

This study examines the educational benefits of what the ancients called otium: the time and freedom from overt action that allows people to think about the world and their reasons for being. While leisure is not a new concept in philosophy of education, it is one to which not enough people pay atte...

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Main Author: Ildefonso, Givanni
Language:English
Published: 2012
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.7916/D88P66M7