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Full Idea
The Stoics broke with both Plato and Aristotle by rejecting altogether the value of contemplation.
Gist of Idea
The Stoics rejected entirely the high value that had been placed on contemplation
Source
report of Stoic school (fragments/reports [c.200 BCE]) by Charles Taylor - Sources of the Self §6.3
Book Ref
Taylor,Charles: 'Sources of the Self' [CUP 1992], p.125
A Reaction
Interesting. This affects the status of philosophy, and rejects the aspiration of humans to become like gods.
| 18231 | Anaxagoras said a person would choose to be born to contemplate the ordered heavens [Anaxagoras] |
| 18229 | Only contemplation is sought for its own sake; practical activity always offers some gain [Aristotle] |
| 104 | Contemplation (with the means to achieve it) is the perfect happiness for man [Aristotle] |
| 5272 | The intellectual life is divine in comparison with ordinary human life [Aristotle] |
| 105 | We should aspire to immortality, and live by what is highest in us [Aristotle] |
| 18232 | The gods live, but action is unworthy of them, so that only leaves contemplation? [Aristotle] |
| 110 | Lower animals cannot be happy, because they cannot contemplate [Aristotle] |
| 111 | The more people contemplate, the happier they are [Aristotle] |
| 621 | Contemplation is a supreme pleasure and excellence [Aristotle] |
| 4012 | The Stoics rejected entirely the high value that had been placed on contemplation [Stoic school, by Taylor,C] |
| 7071 | Life and rationality are pointless if we can only contemplate the freedom of our own ego [Jacobi] |
| 18233 | Contemplation is final because it is an activity which is not a process [Korsgaard] |
| 18226 | For Aristotle, contemplation consists purely of understanding [Korsgaard] |