REC105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Acedia, Otium, Teleology

Guest Speak 1

Aristotle: “We work to be at leisure”

Leisure V.S. Work

Contemplative life Active life

Not working, rest

Latin. Otium Neg-otium, utility

It’s for own sake

Not absence

Activity, liberal arts

Leisure is one with yourself Acedia is not at one with yourself

The state of not being yourself, disagree with your own

In accord with your own beings existene, it’s a sin against leisure, the rest, the Saath

Calm, still, let go, joy You commandment to rest

Affirmation

Recreation, restoration Fatigue, waste. Full time

Empty time (no work)

Mythical story of birth and death

Some kind of divine entity in your soul

Myth of eternal return

YOU

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