"We can begin, like the Scholastic masters, with an objection: videtur quod non … "It seems not to be true that ..." A…"

""We work in order to be at leisure." […] Doesn't this statement appear almost immoral to the man or woman of the worl…"

"What happens when our eye sees a rose? What do we do when that happens? Our mind does something, to be sure, in the m…"

"Not only the Greeks in general — Aristotle no less than Plato — but the great medieval thinkers as well, all held tha…"

"[I]f knowing is work, exclusively work, then the one who knows, knows only the fruit of his own, subjective activity,…"

"We should consider for a moment how much the Christian understanding of life is based on the reality of "Grace"; let …"

"Now the code of life of the High Middle Ages said something entirely opposite to this: that it was precisely lack of …"

"All just order in the world is based on this, that man give man what is his due."

"Leisure lives on affirmation. It […] includes within itself a celebratory, approving, lingering gaze of the inner eye…"

"Against the exclusiveness of the paradigm of work as activity, first of all, there is leisure as "non-activity" — an …"