The Invention of Work - Tapa blanda

Sinopsis

Work is in fact a modern invention. Systematic wage-labor is not a timeless condition but a post-industrial novelty, and in the present day it is increasingly unavoidable and intolerable. This kind of work does not easily conform to the Benedictine slogan “pray and work.” It instead forces workers into becoming nothing but economic units like any other capital or technology, and inhibits the proper end of the human soul. We desperately need a proper philosophy of work capable of discerning the place of work in relation to economics, metaphysics, technology and living out the Gospel.

The Invention of Work, with the opportunity presented by Pope Leo XIV, assesses the state of the question. I look to establish what would constitute a complete philosophy of work. I refuse easy answers and cultural platitudes to outline the critical dimensions that must guide a proper philosophy of work, one that is inclusive, coherent, Catholic and definitive.

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