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Leisure: The Basis of Culture

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Intro -- Foreword by James V. Schall, S.J -- Author's Preface to the English Edition -- LEISURE THE BASIS OF CULTURE -- I. Leisure the foundation of Western culture-"We are 'unleisurely' in order to have leisure"-Aristotle-The claims of the world of "total work" -- II. "Intellectual work" and "intellectual worker"-Discursive thought and "intellectual contemplation"-Kant and the Romantics -Ratio and Intellectus: the medieval conception of knowledge-Contemplation "superhuman"-Knowledge as "work": the two aspects of this conception-"Unqualified activity"-Effort and effortlessness-Hard work is what is good-Antisthenes-Thomas Aquinas: "it is not the difficulty which is the decisive point"-Contemplation and play-Willingness to suffer-First comes the "gift"-"Inte -- III. Sloth (acedia) and the incapacity to leisure-Leisure as non-activity-Leisure as a festive attitude-Leisure and rest from work-Leisure above all functions-Leisure as a means of rising above the "really human" -- IV. The influence of the ideal of leisure-"Humanism" an inadequate position? -Excursus on "proletariat"- The philosopher and the common working man-Man "fettered to work"-Lack of property, State compulsion and inner impoverishment as the causes-"Proletarians" not limited to the proletariat -artes liberales and artes serviles- Proudhon on Sunday-"Deproletarianization" and the opening of the realm of leisure -- V. Leisure made inwardly possible through Divine Worship-Feast and worship-Unused time and space-The world of work and the Feast day-Leisure divorced from worship becomes idleness-The significance of Divine worship -- THE PHILOSOPHICAL ACT.