WHY LABOUR AND WHAT KIND OF LABOUR? FROM MODERN TO SOME PRESENT PHILOSOPHICAL REMARKS

Abstract

In the beginning, the traditional model of labour is related to the traditional aim and ideal of a good life. The reason is to emphasise that philosophy has to solve the problem of the possibility to generalise the model of a creative and pleasant life. Therefore the goal of the paper is twofold. The first is to question the necessity of labour from the standpoint of the rebel thinking transfigured into the literature of laziness as an alternative to the ancient tradition of hard working. The other is to mention some present philosophical theories about cognitive labour. By asserting the fundamental changes in the regime of work opened up by the new industrial revolution which began more than thirty years ago, a mere conclusion would be that the present philosophy still has a big duty toward this crucial and obviously open problem.