Contemplation
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
contemplation · activity of the intellect · philosophy · pursuit of wisdom · the contemplation of truth
in the texts
Nicomachean Ethics
The activity of the intellect directed at the highest objects of knowledge, argued to be the most continuous, self-sufficient, and pleasant activity, and thus the constituent of perfect happiness.
now the perfection of virtue will clearly consist in both;
Whereas the happiness that belongs to the intellect is separate:
But the student, so far as the pursuit of his activity is concerned, needs no external apparatus:
On Leisure
The activity of inquiring into truth, nature, and the divine, treated as one of the two ends for which human beings were made, and defended as compatible with virtuous action.
In what spirit does the wise man retire into leisure?
To make it plain that contemplation is approved by all.
One is given over to pleasure, the second to contemplation, the third to action.