Creative Satisfaction Versus Monetary Profit
Plato’s view as well as the classical philosophers’ view on creative work by using the hand-brain faculty and comparing it with the postmodern scientific worldview on the mechanization of work, we can easily understand the complexities that we create with
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A Brief History of Creative Work and Plutonomy Rethinking the Modern Thought-History of Work and Life
A Brief History of Creative Work and Plutonomy
Mathew Varghese
A Brief History of Creative Work and Plutonomy Rethinking the Modern Thought-History of Work and Life
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Mathew Varghese The Hajime Nakamura Eastern Institute Tokyo, Japan
ISBN 978-981-15-9262-1 ISBN 978-981-15-9263-8 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9263-8
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For the fond memory of my father who worked hard for finding work for others
Preface
When reexamining, the contemporary history of thoughts relating to “work and life,” we can clearly find that there is a steady decline in appreciating the significance of creative work in comparison with the earlier periods of our current civilization. The natural bond that existed between human “work and life” is now being threatened by plutonomy in the twenty-first century. Plutonomy means the control and rule of the financially wealthy, whose wealth is being appreciated and valued as the supreme against every other human attribute, especially work and life. The thought-history of “work” shows that the makeup of creative work is, a unique human trait, helping humans to build up the civilization in the present form. We can see that whether we revere or not, our “being” in the world is supported by certain cardinal ethical virtues. Those ethical values are the reason why life in the world is appreciated and valued for the last few millenniums, where humans could
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