Pieper

who?

when?

intro.?

The building after WW II

Old Greek view

leisure the purpose and end of work

BIG CHANGE-

REVERSAL- p.23

BURT AND ERNIE THEORY OF HISTORY

DESCRIPTION AND EXPLANATION

PROFOUND CHANGE- HINGING ON WORK AND LEISURE

A REVERSAL

BEFORE AND AFTER

FROM HOMO LUDENS TO HOMO FABER

BEFORE

MONASTIC TRADITION

ARTES LIBERALES

ARTES SERVILES

RECEPTIVE VS ACTIVE KNOWLEDGE

SEE VS FIND OUT.

CONTEMPLATE VS OBSERVE

RECEPTIVE-

vs New Kant's idea- all knoweledge is work-

"intellectual worker"

HERACLITUS- LISTENING TO THE ESSENCE OF THINGS

WATCHING AND RECOGNIZING

RATIO VS INTELLECTUS

fusion of reason and intuition, of contemplative and discursive

SIMPLEX INTUITUS

Simplex Intuitus

BEFORE [CON.]

VITA CONTEMPLETIVA + VITA ACTIVA= TRUE LEISURE

Vita Contempletiva, Vita Activa

THE FUSION

ANTISTHENES THE CYNIC- HARD WORK IS THAT WHICH IS GOOD

ST. THOMAS (SUMMA THEOLOGICA) THE GOOD IS NOT NECESSARILY HARD- COMBINING OF WILLS-

"the essence of virtue consists in the good rather than the difficult."

ACEDIA- sloth AMONG THE VITIA CAPITALIA

SPIRITUAL EXHAUSTION, DESPAIRING UNWILLINGNESS... MAN DOES NOT CONSENT TO HIS OWN BEING/MORTALITY, ETC. THUS PERPETUAL EFFORT TO CHANGE OR REFUSE THAT WHICH IS GIVEN. not content with creaturness

no place to rest/no peace See Henny Youngman

THE OPPOSITE OF ACEDIA IS "MAN'S AFFIRMATION OF HIS OWN BEING."

IN WORLD OF TOTAL WORK, LEISURE THAT WHICH IS OUTSIDE UTILITY)= LAZY=Modern view of morality

the contrary of acedia is not the spirit of work... it is man's happy... affirmation of hiw own being... acquiescence in the world and in God- which is to say love

Leisure is

1. attitude of non-activity, calm, peace, letting things happen

1. festival- affirmation

3 break, another plain- at right angles to work

wholeness

AFTER

WORK TEST OF TRUTH, BEAUTY, MORALITY

RISE OF TOTAL WORK

RISE OF TOTAL UTILITY

NOTHING OUTSIDE TECHNOLOGY FOR ITSELF

WORK FOR MORE WORK

TECHNĖ AND TOTAL TECHNOLOGY

THE INTELLECTUAL WORKER- KNOWLEDGE AS TECHNIQUE

Kant- all work, nothing given vs older tradition of "garden"

MOUNTING PROBLEMS

INNER POVERTY

BOREDOM THE MODERN PLAGUE

TECHNOLOGICAL TOTALITARIAN- NO WAY OUT OF WORK WITHOUT END

DEPROLETARIANIZATION Deproletarianization

BACK TO THE GREEKS WITHOUT ARISTOCRACY.

BACK TO LIBERAL ARTS, PHILOSOPHY, THINGS OF THE SPIRIT

POLITICAL ACTION AND INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE

Pieper notes that the modern understanding built on the assumption of utilitarianism (something that is not useful, functional, or a simple response to necessity) has no way to comprehend the Free Act and will discount it. Any activity that is a mixture of freedom and utility/function is reduced entirely to the utilitarian.

LEISURE THE BASIS WORLD OF TOTAL WORK

OF CULTURE

REALM OF FREEDOM REALM OF NECESSITY

CULTURE ECONOMICS

LEISURE WORK

INTRINSIC/ FUNCTION UTILITY

FOR ITSELF

GIFT NO FREE LUNCH (UNABLE TO ACCEPT ANYTHING AS GIVEN)

LIBERAL ARTS SERVILE/ WORK ARTS

MOTIVE FOR BEHAVIOR- WHY DO ANYTHING AND NOT NOTHING?

PULLED UP INTO FREEDOM PUSHED BY NEED

BE THE BEST YOU CAN BE

BOTH ANIMAL BEHAVIOR/HUMAN NATURE

TRIVIAL LEISURE NEED ASCENDING

I THOUGHT ABOUT BECOMING AN ATHEIST, BUT I FOUND OUT THEY DON'T HAVE HOLIDAYS

HENNY YOUNGMAN

"every action has some meaning, even a crime; but to be passive is always senseless.

LEISURE POSSIBLE ONLY IN THE REALM OF FREEDOM

FREEDOM INCONCEIVABLE WITHOUT GIFT-

GIFT INCONCEIVABLE WITHOUT TRANSCENDENT

WITHOUT TRANSCENDENT- NOTHING GIVEN TO DO

WORK, DON'T DESPAIR. BAUDELAIR

LEISURE IMPOSSIBLE WITH FEAST AND WORSHIP- THE SETTING ASIDE OF ORDINARY- TIME OUTSIDE

WORK DIVORCED FROM WORSHIP BECOMES IDLENESS

FROM IDLENESS COMES BOREDOM, FROM BOREDOM, DESPAIR

WORK WITHOUT END- THE STEADY ADVANCE OF WORK IN OUR LIVES, THE RISE OF THE WORLD OF TOTAL WORK ESSENTIALLY A MATTER OF BELIEFS AND VALUES-

MAX WEBER, PROTESTANT ETHIC AND THE SPIRIT OF CAPITALISM

SAVING WORK

NOTHING OUTSIDE GIVEN TO DO

SETH RETURNS

LEISURE THREATENS

THE END OF WORK