The case for idleness as freedom from usefulness, performance, and
the opinion of others For millennia, idleness and laziness have
been seen as vices. We're all expected to work to survive and get
ahead, and devoting energy to anything but labor and
self-improvement can seem like a luxury or a moral failure. Far
from questioning this conventional wisdom, modern philosophers have
entrenched it, viewing idleness as an obstacle to the ethical need
people have to be autonomous, to be useful, to contribute to the
social good, or simply to avoid boredom. In Idleness, the first
book to challenge modern philosophy's portrayal of inactivity,
Brian O'Connor argues that the case against an indifference to work
and effort is flawed-and that idle aimlessness may instead allow
for the highest form of freedom.
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