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Aristotle the capacity and ability to obtain, maintain and exude rational
thought is the greatest ability and ultimate achievement of the human state.
This implies that to be the best you possible, one should occupy all
remaining time of one’s day with expanding the mind with knowledge.
Whether the knowledge gathered was of dirt or the sky, rationality was the
ultimate goal. This would serve to give people a sense of purpose at all
times. As one of means and in an era whereas the job of being a philosopher
intelligence, means and of the masculine gender the pursuit of leisure in this
view would be seen as a way to further the intelligence of the common man
This view while accepted in his day is totally obsolete for the new
of love and being able to achieve what I like to call contentness. Once love