Working - Its Meanings and Its Limits

This text proposes different ways of thinking about work. It explores many of the ways in which human beings have thought about the place of work in life - its meanings, its limits, and its relation to other obligations, to the life cycle, to play and to rest.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Gilbert Meilaender holds the Phyllis and Richard Duesenberg Chair in Christian Ethics at Valparaiso University, Indiana. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Society of Christian Ethics, as an Associate Editor of Religious Studies Review, and as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Religious Ethics. He is also a Fellow of the Hastings Center and was a member of the President's Council on Bioethics from 2002 to 2009. He is a Distinguished Fellow with The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity. He is the author of Friendship: A Study in Theological Ethics (Notre Dame Press, 1981), The Theory and Practice of Virtue (Notre Dame Press, 1984), and Faith and Faithfulness: Basic Themes in Christian Ethics (Notre Dame Press, 1991).

Zusammenfassung

This text proposes different ways of thinking about work. It explores many of the ways in which human beings have thought about the place of work in life - its meanings, its limits, and its relation to other obligations, to the life cycle, to play and to rest.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Gilbert C. Meilaender
• Mitarbeit: Gilbert C. Meilaender (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: University Of Notre Dame Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 03.04.2000
• EAN: 9780268019624
• ISBN: 978-0-268-01962-4
• Seiten: 288
• Abmessung: 152 mm x 229 mm x 16 mm
• Gewicht: 421 g
• Serien: Ethics of Everyday Life; Ethics of Everyday Life S.; Ethics of Everyday Life
• Themen: Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Philosophie: Allgemeines, Nachschlagewerke; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie