Regarding Jim’s comment: indeed, to pursue knowledge is enjoyable, and that kind of knowledge-pursuit, the kind that makes us just go, “Wow, this is interesting!” is definitely the kind one ought to be pursuing in the context I describe.
However, just to clarify: what I am talking about is more than just that. It’s the unique perspective which O’ism offers which I am clarifying, that the reason we get pleasure from knowledge is indeed because it is a value, but it is a value precisely because man’s distinctive life is one of turning knowledge into productive ends: even if he does not know what he is getting out of it, he gains enjoyment from learning precisely because (though he may not explicitly recognise it) his life depends upon it, because to a man of soul-body integrity, there is no split between knowledge-pursuit and practical life.

I like what Rory says in this blog. Knowledge is–to a degree–an end in itself. Acquiring knowledge gives us pleasure and thus adds to life. That which nourishes life is the good. jd