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Stumble itWe are pleased to announce part 1 (of 11) of our new session on the theme of Work: Academics & Work. Joshua Appel, Fellow of Humanities at New Saint Andrews College, joins Douglas Wilson for this session.
Table of Contents for Academics and Work: (click HERE for the entire series on WORK)
Part I: Divorcing intellectual and physical work
Part II: Is intellectual work really work?
Part III: Time management
Part IV: How do you achieve balance and symmetry?
Part V: What about caffeine?
Part VI: Higher education bubble and my college decision
Part VII: Recovery of craft competence
Part VIII: Has the church damaged the Protestant doctrine of vocation?
Part IX: Students will be like their teachers
Part X: What is college for?
Part XI: Students loans, parents, and part-time jobs
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As much good as I see in this presentation, I’m curious to know whether Mr. Appel or Rev. Wilson are familiar with Josef Pieper’s work “Leisure: The Basis of Culture”. In that book, Pieper defends the classical distinction of the “artes liberales” from the “artes serviles” and maintains that intellectual work should be conceived of as leisure, “useless” in terms of utility, as it is the completely passive observation of truth. I was largely sympathetic to Pieper’s position. How would this video address that?