10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNLEISURED»
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ourselves something beyond the action.841 Moreover, happiness seems to
reside in leisure, since we do unleisured things in order to be at leisure, and
wage war in order to live in peace. |5| Now the activity ofthe practicalvirtues
occursin ...
2
The Virtuous Life in Greek Ethics
Put in a nutshell, an unleisured activity is an activity that we take on only because
of a threat to some indispensable or important external goods necessitating
action. If people who are able to live a good life engage in such inferior activities,
...
3
Spectacles of Truth in Classical Greek Philosophy: Theoria ...
And happiness seems to involve leisure, since we are unleisured for the sake of
being leisured, and we wage war for the sake of peace. Now the activity of the
practical virtues (tän ... praktikän retän ... ¡ nrgeia) is exercised in politics and in
war.
Andrea Wilson Nightingale, 2004
4
Nicomachean Ethics (Second Edition):
When we 'deny ourselves leisure' (lit., 'are unleisured', ascholein), we take on
actions that we engage in reluctantly, for the sake of some further end. But the
actions of the politician also deny us leisure; ... it is different: These actions 'deny
us ...
Aristotle, Terence Irwin, 2000
5
Women and Domestic Experience in Victorian Political Fiction
It is unleisured because it is limitless, "an occupation as endless as its object [
wealth]" (Booth 51). Bell's elaboration of the notion' of leisure, however, highlights
a different valence of this passage, and one that undermines his critique of the
life ...
6
The Pursuit of Wisdom and Happiness in Education: Historical ...
However, whereas the contemplative gaze seeks to know reality, the gaze of the
unleisured eye is, by contrast, concerned with the pleasure to be derived from
seeing rather than the seeing of what is for its own sake. This unleisured seeing
is, ...
7
Manhood and Politics: A Feminist Reading in Political Theory
is shown in political or military affairs, but our action in such affairs must be held
to be unleisured action. Military action is entirely so . . . but the action of the
statesman too is unleisured action.63 Political life and political action, proffered in
the ...
8
The Imaginary Polis: Symposium, January 7-10, 2004
Hence nothing prevents a philosophical life from including periods of political
activity, so long as these do not take too much time away from philosophy.
Aristotle explicitly allows that one may engage in unleisured activities in order to
secure ...
Mogens Herman Hansen, 2005
9
Households: On the Moral Architecture of the Economy
Wealth seekers lead unleisured lives under constraint. The sense in which they
may justly be described as unleisured is plain and emerges clearly when their
existence is compared to, for example, that of the friends engaged in hunting and
...
William James Booth, 1993
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Ammonius: On Aristotle On Interpretation 9 with Boethius: On ...
... answer, 135,14 aparapodistôs, unimpededly, 132,29 apeiros, indefinite, infinite
, 144,20; 153,15 aperiskeptôs, thoughtlessly, 149,18 aphereponos, unleisured,
132,18 aphôrismenôs, in a definite manner, 131,3; 138,17.20; 139,9.15; 141,20;
...
David L. Blank, Norman Kretzmann, 2014
