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    STUDIA PHILOSOPHIA - Issue no. 2 / 2012  
         
  Article:   TECHNOLOGY, VOCATION AND THE MEANING OF WORK TODAY.

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  Abstract:  ‘Work’ is an expression applied in a wide range of situations. Within that semantic looseness, there is a particular sense in which we qualify some actions as work. We may say, for instance, that someone that is handling documents in an office is working, although we would say that the same person is not working when taking care of his children at home. In these contexts “work” is not linked to specific events, purposes or motives of our actions. We take a practice as work because what we do occurs within a certain meaningful context. Work, as we experience and understand it today, is linked to the whole life-world that we inhabit. My intention in this paper is to show a parallel between what might be called the technological keenness of our time, and a certain semantic content of the expression ‘work’ that I will briefly try to analyse. In order to illustrate that parallelism, I will shortly reflect on how we tend to assume a relation between work and personal vocation.

Keywords: technology, work, life-world, Ortega y Gasset, Heidegger. 

  
         
     
         
         
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