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| | Encyclopedia: Contemplation |
 | | In a religious sense it is type of prayer or meditation. | | | Contemplation comes from the latin root for temple, and means to enter an open or consecrated place. | | | Teresa of Avila by Peter Paul Rubens Saint Teresa of Avila (known in religion as Teresa de Jesús, baptised as Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada) was a Spanish Roman Catholic mystic and monastic reformer; born at Avila (53 miles north-west of Madrid), Old Castile, March 28, 1515; died... |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Contemplation |
| | The states of the first group are characterized by the fact that it is God, and God only, who manifests Himself; these are called mystical union. | | | The idea of contemplation is so intimately connected with that of mystical theology that one cannot be clearly explained independent of the other; hence we shall here set forth what mystical theology is. | | | This character and the preceding one are a source of anxiety to beginners, as they imagine that no state is Divine and certain unless they understand it perfectly and without anyone's help. |
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| | Aristotle (384-322 BCE.): General Introduction [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | Aristotle sees the universe as a scale lying between the two extremes: form without matter is on one end, and matter without form is on the other end. | | | It is also that which is most akin to the life of God: for God cannot be conceived as practising the ordinary moral virtues and must therefore find his happiness in contemplation. | | | Aristotle notes that there is a purely rational part of the soul, the calculative, which is responsible for the human ability to contemplate, reason logically, and formulate scientific principles. |
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| | Philosophy -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article |
| | Often these questions are about the assumptions behind a belief, or about methods by which people reason. | | | Like Socrates, they search for answers through discussion, responding to the arguments of others, or careful personal contemplation. | | | Philosophers often debate the relative merits of these methods. |
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| | Honors Thesis Part 2: Psychological Dynamics of Vision |
| | the mind identifies with its object of contemplation." (Encyclopedia of Religion, s.v. | | | Each has its own domain, and while the eye of reason can perceive the image of God (the image dei), only the eye of contemplation, through intuitive knowing, can truly apprehend God. | | | It's not that the reality revealed by psychedelics is only a crude simulacrum of the Absolute, but such revelations, obtained by chemical shortcuts, do not have the grounding provided by years of discipline and mystical praxis. |
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| | architecture - encyclopedia article about architecture. |
| | Theory is the result of that reasoning which demonstrates and explains that the material wrought has been so converted as to answer the end proposed. | | | Practice is the frequent and continued contemplation of the mode of executing any given work, or of the mere operation of the hands, for the conversion of the material in the best and readiest way. | | | Vitruvius continues: "Practice and theory are its parents. |
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| | Aristotle - Columbia Encyclopedia® article about Aristotle |
| | But he does not bind up truth in logical formulae,-- logic is still veiled in metaphysics; and the science which he imagines to "contemplate all truth and all existence" is very unlike the doctrine of the syllogism which Aristotle claims to have discovered. | | | In the Politics, Aristotle holds that, by nature, humans form political associations, and he explores the best forms these may take. | | | Aristotle emphasized the traditional Greek notion of moral virtue as the mean between extremes. |
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| | Ludwig Wittgenstein [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | This applies not only to professional philosophers but to any people who stray into philosophical confusion, perhaps not even realizing that their problems are philosophical and not, say, scientific. | | | It requires an almost infinite capacity for taking pains (which is one definition of genius) and could have enormous implications for anyone who is drawn to philosophical contemplation or who is misled by bad philosophical theories. |
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