Of the Active Life in Comparison with the Contemplative Life (Four Articles)
Summa Theologica — Saint Thomas Aquinas
We must now consider the active life in comparison with the contemplative life, under which head there are four points of inquiry:

(1) Which of them is of greater import or excellence?

(2) Which of them has the greater merit?

(3) Whether the contemplative life is hindered by the active life?

(4) Of their order.

whether the active life remains
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