The contribution aims to examine the theme of the work in Aristotle, through a “Multifocal Approach” that takes into account two opposite scenarios (here called, respectively, "theoretical-conceptual frame" and "political-social frame"). This distinction starts from the identification of two interpretations with respect to the theme of work, a notion that, in the same Greek language, refers simultaneously, but in different senses - 1) to a "painful need" (since "work" is called πόνος, which means "fatigue", "suffering", connected with the Latin term "labor", from which derives, for example, the French “travailler”) but also 2) to an indispensable occasion of realization and fullness (calling into question another Greek term to say work, such as ἔργον, very important for Aristotle himself, which means, among other things, "opera", and which therefore indicates a task to be accomplished at best.
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Chapter Title
Attività lavorative e ozio intellettuale in Aristotele
Authors
Arianna Fermani
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0319-7.08
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Publication Year
2024
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Book Title
Idee di lavoro e di ozio per la nostra civiltà
Editors
Giovanni Mari, Francesco Ammannati, Stefano Brogi, Tiziana Faitini, Arianna Fermani, Francesco Seghezzi, Annalisa Tonarelli
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Number of Pages
1894
Publication Year
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0319-7
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979-12-215-0245-9
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0319-7
eISBN (epub)
979-12-215-0320-3
Series Title
Studi e saggi
Series ISSN
2704-6478
Series E-ISSN
2704-5919