Leisure

Subtitle

The Basis of Culture

Author

Josef Pieper

Full Title

Leisure - The Basis of Culture

Genre

Philosophy

Page Count

144

Pages Read

144

Progress

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Reading Status

Read

Rating

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Read Dates

Mar 16, 2026 → Mar 26, 2026

ISBN_10

1586172565

ISBN_13

9781586172565

Notes, Highlights & Quotes

💡“The medievals distinguished between the intellect as ratio and the intellect as intellectus. Ratio is the power of discursive thought, of searching and re-searching, abstracting, refining, and concluding [cf. Latin dis-currere, ”to run to and fro”], whereas intellectus refers to the ability of ”simply looking” (simplex intuitus), to which the truth presents itself as a landscape presents itself to the eye. The spiritual knowing power of the human mind, as the ancients understood it, is really two things in one: ratio and intellectus, all knowing involves both. The path of discursive reasoning is accompanied and penetrated by the intellectus’ untiring vision, which is not active but passive, or better, receptive - a receptively operating power of the intellect.”

Leisure