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    STUDIA PHILOSOPHIA - Issue no. 1 / 2013  
         
  Article:   WORK AND ACTION IN A SOCIETY OF LABOURERS.

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  Abstract:  In this article, I address the issue of the meaning of work, by asking two different but interrelated questions: the first regards the meaning of the word: what does “to work” mean?; the second regards the value of work: why is it worthwhile to work? I will answer to the first question from the perspective offered by the distinction developed by Hannah Arendt between labour, work, and action, because it helps us to really disentangle work from other activities. Then, following Arendt, I will argue that the meaningfulness of work can be assed only from the perspective of action and that, moreover, its meaningfulness consists in serving action, in offering a space where human interactions can take place and where we disclose to the others who, and not merely what, we are. In the end, given the fact that nowadays human interactions happen often via the internet, I will rise the question whether the virtual space, as a product of work, can be a genuine space of appearance, where we can appear to one another as who we truly are.

Keywords: work, labour, action, Arendt, human interactions
 
         
     
         
         
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