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"For millennia, idleness and laziness have been regarded 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 worked hard to develop new reasons to denigrate idleness. In Idleness, the first book to challenge modern philosophy's portrayal of inactivity, Brian O'Connor argues that the case against an indifferenc
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- Author
- Brian O'Connor
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780691204505
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology
- Rating
- 4.5 / 5 (10 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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