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Comment by jbermudes

> And yet... if you don't have fun, it will never get done

This was actually accounted for by the system of thought the parent comment is discussing.

Since virtue is the median between two vices, there is a middle ground between focusing on nothing and focusing on something to the point of exhaustion. The virtue of eutrapelia. Thomas Aquinas argues that just as the body needs rest when it is weary, so too does the soul when it becomes overburdened. And, like the body, the soul takes rest in a kind of pleasure we call 'play'.

parent jbermudes 4 years ago

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