Public Lecture: Brian O'Connor -Work and Idleness

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Talks and interviews by members of the UCD Centre for Ethics in Public Life on ethical questions of wide social interest.

Philosophy

Society & Culture

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Public Lecture: Brian O'Connor -Work and Idleness

UCD Centre for Ethics in Public Life

43 minutes 28 seconds

5 years ago

Public Lecture: Brian O'Connor -Work and Idleness

This is the audio from a public lecture delivered 4 February 2020 at Newman House, University College Dublin.

During the age of Enlightenment new types of criticisms of idleness began to appear. Philosophers opposed idleness not on the traditional ground that it would require others to work. Rather it prevented each of us from realizing our talents and skills. Idlers were supposedly akin to 'savages' and 'barbarians'. This talk looks at some of the strange and biased arguments against idleness found among these philosophers.

Brian O'Connor is Full Professor of Philosophy at University College Dublin. He is the author of Idleness: A Philosophical Essay (Princeton 2018) together with a number of other monographs and edited volumes on Modern German Philosophy.