| ### QUESTION 179 ### OF THE DIVISION OF LIFE INTO ACTIVE AND CONTEMPLATIVE ###  |

| #### Prologue |

| #### #### We must next consider active and contemplative life. This consideration will be fourfold: (1) Of the division of life into active and contemplative; (2) Of the contemplative life; (3) Of the active life; (4) Of the comparison between the active and the contemplative life. #### Under the first head there are two points of inquiry: #### (1) Whether life is fittingly divided into active and contemplative? #### (2) Whether this is an adequate division? ####  |