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We can begin, like the Scholastic masters, with an objection: videtur quod non … "It seems not to be true that ..." And this is the objection: a time like the present seems, of all times, not to be a time to speak of leisure.
That is no small objection. But there is also a good answer to it.
For, when we consider the foundations of Western European culture , one of these foundations is leisure. We can read it in the first chapter of Aristotle's Metaphysics. And the very history of the meaning of the word bears a similar message. The Greek word for leisure is the origin of Latin scola, German Schule, English school. The names for the institutions of education and learning mean "leisure. (en) |
