Address to Young Men on the Right Use of Greek Literature
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Address to Young Men on the Right Use of Greek Literature
$7.50
Basil’s Address to Young Men on the Right Use of Greek Literature is a short strategic manual for formation under conditions of cultural mixture. Basil does not ask Christian students to flee pagan learning, and he does not surrender them to it. He teaches selection, discipline, and hierarchy: take from Greek poetry, history, and philosophy what trains courage, self-command, justice, and contempt for pleasure; refuse what flatters the passions or disorders the soul. The work stands at the frontier between classical paideia and Christian moral formation, and its enduring force comes from that exact balance: cultural confidence without naivety, openness without surrender, and education ordered toward virtue rather than display.