Concept

Recreation

Overview

human activity of leisure (discretionary time)

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Now, our mental powers are forms of sensibility, and therefore a preponderating amount of it makes us capable of that kind of pleasure which has to do with mind, so-called intellectual pleasure; and the more sensibility predominates, the greater the pleasure will be.[1]
Arthur Schopenhauer, The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer
Close in meaning to Recreation; the term itself is not named.
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Or, in less extreme cases, there is recourse to idle amusement; to anything which passes time with immediate agreeableness. Recreation, as the word indicates, is recuperation of energy. No demand of human nature is more urgent or less to be escaped.
John Dewey, Democracy and Education
Names Recreation twice.
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If inactive indolence begets nothing but melancholy and irksomeness, the delights of an agreeable leisure are the fruits of a laborious life. We only work to enjoy ourselves; this alternative of labour and recreation is our natural state. The repose which serves to refresh us after past labours, and encourage us to renew them, is not less necessary for us than labour itself.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Eloisa
States what Recreation is; names Recreation twice.
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