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The Philosophy of Work

Alessandro Colarossi has insights for the bored and understimulated.

If you’ve ever found yourself staring blankly at a spreadsheet or nursing a lukewarm cup of coffee while daydreaming about your next vacation, this is for you. Yes, you, the one who periodically contemplates existential questions between email exchanges and Zoom meetings. If your work feels like a necessary yet uninspiring pursuit, a means to fund your ‘real life’ outside the office, let us delve together into the philosophical underpinnings of work. Who knows, we might find ways to render the banal a little more bearable, or even meaningful.

Aristotle and the Dignity of Work

Aristotle, one of the most influential philosophers in Western thought, had distinctive views on work.

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