Some men and women were just sitting with a contemplative attitude, making their houses as if "dreaming awake".
Some philosophers friendly to Phillips noted with some irony the polemical energy with which he expounded and defended the contemplative attitude.
The ethical counterpart of this contemplative attitude, of course, is the refusal to judge others that Russell so admired in Christian teaching.
Neo-Paganism differs from them, however, in striving to revive authentic pantheons and rituals of ancient cultures, though often in deliberately eclectic and reconstructionist ways, and by a particularly contemplative and celebrative attitude.
On Bosanquet's view, the aesthetic attitude is "contemplative"—it is a "preoccupation with a pleasant feeling, embodied in an object which can be contemplated" (Three Lectures, p. 10).
First, as in the aesthetic case, he took the main valuable attitude to be contemplative, involving the admiration of another's already existing good qualities rather than any active engagement with them.
It is still pop music, but it is more discursive, more sophisticated, more poetic, and as such, it no longer "works" to assist in attitude projection; it truly is contemplative music that is meant to be listened to as such.
The opposition of exuberance and constraint also implies that the screen is a divider between contrasting moods, with a boisterous attitude on one side and a contemplative frame of mind on the other.
This music is more contemplative when it's performed with a drier expressive attitude.
Those who advocate a more traditional, contemplative museum sound outmoded, élitist, and narrow-minded — precisely the attitude that museums are running from.
Cole sees the slow pace of his books as a positive version of Nigerian lassitude; taking that attitude and making of it something worthwhile and contemplative, rather than time-wasting and empty.
