The wide range of readings in Working: Its Meaning and Its Limits
proposes different ways of thinking about something most of us do
every day -- work. As part of the Ethics of Everyday Life series,
these readings are an invitation to reflection and conversation.
They focus not on rules for the workplace or on dilemmas in
business ethics but on one of the most fundamental aspects of human
existence in every time and place.
Gilbert C. Meilaender presents varied readings that explore many
of the ways in which human beings have thought about the place of
work in life -- its meanings, its limits, and its relation to other
obligations, to the life cycle, to play, and to rest. The readings
in this volume range in time from the world of ancient Israel and
the classical world of Greece and Rome to contemporary American
society. They range in complexity from "The Little Red Hen" to
philosophers such as Charles Taylor and Alasdair MacIntyre, and in
genre from poetry by Kipling and George Herbert to essays by
Dorothy Sayers and Roger Angell; from novels by Tolstoy and Twain
to treatises by Marx, Aristotle, and Karl Barth -- all placed in
the context of an extended discussion of the meaning of work in
human life by Meilaender's introduction.
Working: Its Meaning and Its Limits enables any reader
interested in understanding the moral and spiritual significance of
work in our lives to enter into a conversation not only about what
we do but who we are.
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