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The First Book To Challenge Modern Philosophy’s Case Against Idleness, Revealing Why The Idle State Is One Of True Freedom 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 Indifference To Work And Effort Is Flawed--and That Idle Aimlessness May Instead Allow For The Highest Form Of Freedom. Idleness Explores How Some Of The Most Influential Modern Philosophers Drew A Direct Connection Between Making The Most Of Our Humanity And Avoiding Laziness. Idleness Was Dismissed As Contrary To The Need People Have To Become Autonomous And Make Whole, Integrated Beings Of Themselves (kant); To Be Useful (kant And Hegel); To Accept Communal Norms (hegel); To Contribute To The Social Good By Working (marx); And To Avoid Boredom (schopenhauer And De Beauvoir). O'co

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Author

O'Connor, Brian

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780691204505

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Philosophy, Sociology, Anthropology

Rating

4.5 / 5 (10 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14