Becoming Antifragile
Becoming Antifragile
IJ Makan
025: How Hyper-Productive Work Culture Destroys Leisure And Individual Freedom - Josef Pieper
41 minutes Posted Apr 21, 2024 at 10:45 am.
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Our work-centric culture vs. leisure
Individual freedom comes from leisure
When work becomes a religion, leisure makes no sense
Hyper-productive state is at odds with enlightenment
Servile arts vs. liberal arts
Leisure is only possible when you know yourself
Crave out a time for leisure
Virtues perfect you so that you can act effortlessly
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Lessons from "Leisure: The Basis of Culture" by Josef Pieper.
This book challenges our contemporary work-centric culture and the idea of “total work,” where every aspect of life is dominated by the ethos of work and productivity. Pieper argues that this shift has led to a loss of meaning and a neglect of the liberal arts, which traditionally has been a space for leisure and the cultivation of individual freedom.
Josef Pieper was a professor of philosophy at University of Munster. He was schooled specifically in Greek philosophy and Thomas Aquinas, law and sociology.
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