The formalist's account of music runs along similar lines: not only representation (program music) is excluded but so is the entire realm of human feeling not the feeling that the contemplation of pure form can give but only the feelings of life, such as love or terror.
Similarly, Intellect's internal activity is its contemplation of the Forms, and its external activity is found in every possible representation of the activity of being eternally identical with all that is intelligible (i.e., the Forms).
They are also not to enjoy open-ended research, but are subject to a mental training that is explicitly designed to turn their thoughts away from worldly conditions and to the contemplation of the Forms.
Plato in the Republic famously claims that the philosopher-kings will return to rule as a matter of necessity, and there is a large literature exploring just how this fits into a eudaimonist framework, given that it looks like the narrowly-construed good of the philosopher-kings would be best served by contemplation of the Forms.
But the following day, the case was adjourned in contemplation of dismissal, a form of probation in which the criminal charge is dismissed if the person is not involved in any trouble for a set period, usually six months.
DARGIS In his book "The Virtual Life of Film," D. N. Rodowick, taking a cue from Jean-Luc Godard, describes the new cinephile as "simultaneously nostalgic and future-seeking, backward and forward looking, as befits contemplation of an art form undergoing a stark historical mutation".
Some viewers sense spiritual contemplation, a form of asceticism that comes from introspective concentration on a mundane task.
Enjoyment taken in the sight of a coin is enjoyment taken in its beauty only if it arises not from any thought of what the coin may buy, but merely from the contemplation of the design or form of the coin's inscription.
The darkness is located above the mountain, and Moses enters it after his contemplation of God in the various forms of theology.
But in the highest life, the life of Intellect, where we find the highest form of desire, that desire is eternally satisfied by contemplation of the One through the entire array of Forms that are internal to it.
