R: Man is Made to Work
R: Man is Made to Work
October 25th, 2018 at 7:30p.m. in the Berkeley Mendenhall Room
October 25th, 2018 at 7:30p.m. in the Berkeley Mendenhall Room
Jean-François Millet, The Gleaners, 1857, oil on canvas, 83.8 × 111.8 cm, Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
Step back from laborious study this week and join the Federalist Party to discuss the value of all those hours of toil and exertion invested in your studies. Are all those hours of drudgery simply disciplining you and allowing you to flourish in accordance with your human nature? Man is a creature with a great capacity for reason and creativity, able to produce and innovate to build new economic orders and reshape society. But is man a purposed creature, requiring labor to fulfill it's own humanity or are we simply investing our sweat and tears now so that someday the world reaches an economic order where labor is limited, voluntary, or even rare?