Care of itself and pedagogy in the hellenistic period

Abstract

This article derived from research, considering the relationship between self-care and education in the Greco-Roman world. Methodologically, spiritual exercises practiced by the Stoic school, on all Cicero, Philo, Seneca, Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius referring to the other philosophical schools of the Hellenistic period because the precept care of himself studied (heautou epimelesthai) acquired a rather general scope between different philosophical doctrines. It was found that self care takes the form of an attitude, a way of behaving, a lifestyle and developing procedures, practices and meditate recipes, perfected and taught. We conclude that this practice of the self, to require the mediation of a teacher, evidence philosophical exercises in the order of the pedagogical and therapeutic as a way of transforming the subject.