Enjoying the view from Limbo
Is having a fairly regular and predictable daily routine beneficial or harmful to the thinking life? The question is unanswerable until we have clearly distinguished between the two relevant kinds of routine.
There is the routine that aims to minimize the distractions of daily life, and then there is the routine…
In fact pleasures and pains are the things with which moral virtue is concerned. For pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions. Hence the importance, as Plato points out, of having been definitely trained from childhood to like and dislike the proper things; this is what good education means. — Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics II.iii,...
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