Arbeit, Musse, Meditation
Subtitle: Betrachtungen zur vita activa und vita contemplativa
By: herausgegeben von Brian Vickers.
Contributors: Vickers, Brian.
Publisher: Verlag der Fachvereine
Published: 1985
Place of publication: Zürich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
Subjects: Work -- Congresses.; Leisure -- Congresses.; Contemplation -- Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
English, German, and French.
"The essays ... were originally given (with two exceptions) to a symposium which I organized in June, 1981 at the Centre for Renaissance Studies of the ETH Zürich"--Editor's pref.
Table of contents: value: Bios theoretikos und bios praktikos bei Aristoteles und Platon / Gerhard Huber; value: La sociologie antique du loisir et son apport à la réflexion moderne / Jean-Marie André; value: Practice and theory, civic and spiritual virtues in Plotinus and Augustine / Paul G. Kuntz; value: Activity, contemplation, work, and leisure between the Eleventh and the Thirteenth Centuries / Brian Stock; value: Die Beurteilung der vita contemplativa und activa in der Dominikanermystik des 14. Jahrhunderts Alois M. Haas; value: The active and the contemplative life in Renaissance humanism / Paul Oskar Kristeller; value: Coluccio Salutati on the active and contemplative lives / Victoria Kahn; value: Active and contemplative in Lorenzo Valla / Letizia A. Panizza; value: Otium im Romanischen / Fritz Schalk; value: Public and private life in Seventeenth-Century England, The Mackenzie-Evelyn debate / Brian Vickers; value: Marthe ou Marie, Diogène ou Cicéron / Bernard Beugnot.