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Philosophies of Work in the Platonic Tradition - A History of Labor and Human Flourishing (Hardcover)
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Philosophies of Work in the Platonic Tradition - A History of Labor and Human Flourishing (Hardcover)
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The Platonic tradition affords extraordinary resources for thinking
about the meaning and value of work. In this historical survey of
the tradition, Jeffrey Hanson draws on the work of its major
thinkers to explain why our contemporary vocabulary for appraising
labor and its rewards is too narrow and cramped. By tracing out the
Platonic lineage of work Hanson is able to argue why we should be
explaining its value for appraising it as an element of a happy and
flourishing human life, quite apart from its financial rewards.
Beginning with Plato’s extensive thinking about work’s
relationship to wisdom, Hanson covers the singularly powerful
arguments of Augustine, who wrote the ancient world’s only
treatise dedicated to the topic of manual labor. He discusses
Bernard of Clairvaux, introduces the priest-craftsman Theophilus
Presbyter, and provides a study of work and leisure in the writings
of Petrarch. Alongside Martin Luther, Hanson discusses John Ruskin
and Simone Weil: two thinkers profoundly disturbed by the
conditions of the working class in the rapidly industrializing
economies of Europe. This original study of Plato and his
inheritors’ ideas provides practical suggestions for how to
approach work in a socially responsible manner in the 21st century
and reveals the benefits of linking work and morality.
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