"I mean, if I am the best, what do I need you for?" This tremendous, noble quest to take the world head-on results in a bunch of human beings who never look back, avoid self-contemplation and avoid asking how they are doing.
Prudence, which is the ability to choose good and avoid evil, intellectual contemplation, moral and political virtue, friendship, education and character (all essential elements in Aristotle's ethics) are subsumed in Augustine's moral theology under the command to love God.
We're in Gordon's head as she figures out the world around her. There's an early Sly Stone song called "Plastic Jim" where he describes a phony poser: "Plastic Jim / Will give you a conversation / To avoid a situation / That needs contemplation". There's no plastic here.
Contemplation of radical tax alternatives is exhilarating, and could help to avoid the kind of loophole-to-loophole combat that tax war veterans recall from 1986, the last time we made wholesale changes in the system.
Contemplation had a similar effect: afterward, only 20 percent of the subjects chose to avoid learning more about their personal risk, compared with 53 percent of the controls.
As Carlsen prepared to avoid a "Miracle en prise" upset, he followed a regimen of physical training and strategical contemplation.
When the planning of Thanksgiving reaches such a granular level that there is contemplation of the width of planks of biscotti that will most likely be consumed with coffee when everyone in the house has already reached a stupor, how do you avoid becoming mired in reedy swamps of information overload?
And both Piver and Cohen agree that contemplation of death should be avoided for those with trauma or psychological instability.
The objects there are well spaced, avoiding the crowding at Hunterdon and allowing for focused, easy contemplation.
You end up contemplating your own contemplation.
