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(2024)This chapter presents an overview of Martin Luther’s doctrine on professional activities developed in On the Freedom of a Christian, To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation, and some Postils. This doctrine will ...
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(2024)Fifteenth- and seventeenth-century theologians-jurists, and in particularthe Early Modern Scholastics, are confronted with the issue of otium as a real problem, not just as an object of rhetorical speculation. They question ...
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(2024)Between the 16th and the 17th centuries, the production of literature on Sacramental Penance rose. Targeted to priests and penitents, manuals for confession were among the Catholic Church’s strategies to discipline its ...
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(2024)The Middle Ages marked the definitive break with the ancient conception that opposed servile labour to the idleness of intellectual life and the exercise of the liberal arts. Within this paradigm shift, a central role was ...
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(2024)The contribution explores the valorisation of human labour in the Didascalicon by Hugh of Saint Victor. Following a brief outline of Hugh’s life and main works, one underlines the principal points of interest of his ...
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(2024)In the Latin monastic rules (IV-XI centuries), manual labor is always understood as that undertaken by the monk to counteract idleness and sloth, that is, with a noneconomic purpose. Manual labor contributes to spiritual ...
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(2024)This chapter focuses on a carefully selected body of representations from ancient Christian writers concerning both work and non-work (in the sense of inoperativity). Spanning almost four centuries (i.e, from Paul to ...
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(2024)The present paper attempts to analyze the relevance of work in early Christianity by adopting a gender perspective. The New Testament episode of Martha and Mary (Lk 10:38-42) will be used as a privileged case study to ...
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(2025)This volume explores the importance of constitutivism for legal studies. Constitutivism is the view that the normative force, or authority, of practical reasons is grounded in principles, capacities, aims, or functions ...
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(2024)The Talmudic definition of work/labor (melakhah) is based on the activities for building the holy temple in Jerusalem. The list amounts to 39 works which are forbidden on the day of Shabbat. The rest of the seventh day is ...
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(2024)In the Jewish Bible as well as in the Christian Old Testament books agriculture was the mainstay of the Israelite economy both in villages and cities. Working the land and herding was an anthropological given; nevertheless ...
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(2024)When we talk about leisure we bring into play, at least implicitly, five dimensions or times of a person's life: work, play, rest, "free time" and, indeed, leisure. This text seeks to introduce clarity into these distinctions ...
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(2024)The essay aims at proposing a balance between the elements that can realize the human being in itself and in a good relationship within the social living. In a frame like that, work has to be connected with action and ...
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(2024)The transfer into the machine first of the manual skills and then of the worker's thoughts has determined an unprecedented condition for the production activity which must be analyzed according to the purposes of the ...
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(2024)The essay examines the reasons why the neoliberalism, with his dynamics of privatization, has broken the nexus between work and welfare state and the way by which the nexus can be restored beyond the disntinction between ...
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(2024)This essay aims to address a topic that nowadays has fallen into disuse, following the decline of the working class: the political value of work. It shows the problems and the tendencies that might constitute elements of ...
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(2024)The chapter provides a longue-durée overview on the theorisations of work, and related practices, in the Judeo-Christian exegetical and theological traditions. In these traditions, a 'perfect conduct' was shaped with a ...
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(2024)The purpose of the contribution is to speak in favour of the urgency to harmonize the two dimensions of human labour: the acquisitive dimension and the expressive one. To this end, the paper suggests that an effective way ...
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(2024)If talking about women's work in relation to employment issues and in a statistical way confronts us with problems, inequalities, long-term discrimination, something that seems to have never changed, a look that follows ...
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(2024)The onset of concomitant global crises generates unexpected phenomena: “great resignation, great upgrade, reshuffle”, by people both with lower levels of education and low salaries, and with higher levels of education and ...
