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Leisure, The Basis of Culture
A quick note about a book that's been on my go-to list for a while.
This book came out in 1948 and Josef Pieper was specifically countering Karl Marx. He says that Man at his core does not derive his intrinsic worth from his work, or industry but from his rest or prayer i.e. leisure.
Let's go back to the Greek world, we're not talking about laziness or sloth, it's a habit which disposes us to the good. It's deeper, the vita contemplativa.
Man exists for contemplation, or a resting in prayer. In God.
It's not our ability to do things, but to be. To Be in the presence of God.
He also gets into the differences between the servile and liberal education.
The modern experiment has gotten this wrong concerning the purpose of education. Education has become at the service of work, job training. There is an ideology operating behind this.
It's a philosophical book and a dense one, but it's one of the best books I've ever read.
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