Aristotle – Happiness Is Co-extensive with Contemplative Speculation

Happiness then is co-extensive with this Contemplative Speculation, and in proportion as people have the act of Contemplation so far have they also the being happy, not incidentally, but in the way of Contemplative Speculation because it is in itself precious.

– Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

 

 

This is not the type of contemplation I speak of throughout the site