"theoretical contemplation" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe abstract thought, reflection, or rumination on some concept or idea. For example, "I spent the afternoon in theoretical contemplation, wondering what the implications of quantum physics are for our understanding of the universe."
It is God's personal predicates that concern the religious believer, for whom God exists, not as an object of theoretical contemplation, but of feeling, imagination, and prayerful supplication.
For example, Western virtue ethicists such as Aristotle place great value on purely theoretical contemplation, which Confucians typically regard as lacking intrinsic value.
Some think the happy life is the life of enjoyment; the more refined think it is the life of political activity; others think it is the life of study or theoretical contemplation (1095b10 20).
The vehemence of his resistance to these stances suggests that something other than a simple shift from the particular immediacy of a work to a theoretical contemplation of its content must be at play.
One enters any of these provinces, such as those of phantasms, dreams, the theater, religious experience, or theoretical contemplation, by undergoing different types of epoché, analogous to the phenomenological protoype, as when one slips into a daydream, falls asleep, watches theater curtains open, commences a ritual, or assumes the scientist's role.
Yet the question remains: is the passage from the immediacy of the given artwork to theoretical contemplations about its subject matter not an instance of moving from the particular givenness of a work to a more abstract level of reflection about its subject-matter?
This is to engage in theoretical reasoning ("contemplation" or theôria).
Practical reason is the domain of ethics and politics, the uniquely human domain, but the political life is not necessarily the best life, compared with that devoted to the divinely shared human capacity for theoretical reason and contemplation (conmpare Nicomachean Ethics I with X.7 9).
Through the contemplation of these theoretical frameworks, the course speculates on other alternative understandings of nature and the relationship between nature and built environment in order to further inspire design intentions and methodologies.
But what strikes the "systematic epistemologist" as mere opportunism might appear otherwise when viewed from the perspective of a physicist engaged, as Einstein himself put it, in "the critical contemplation of the theoretical foundations".
In light of the emphasis placed in his later works on the practical existential needs of the embodied individual subject, it should be noted that during his early idealistic phase Feuerbach was strongly committed to a theoretical ideal of philosophy according to which contemplation of and submersion in God is the highest ethical act of which human beings are capable.
