defining leisure w/ dr. rashad rehman
Join me in discussing Joseph Pieper's Leisure: Basis of Culture with Dr. Rashad Rehman, real life philosopher and Franciscan University's resident Pieper expert.
Here are some passages from Leisure to reflect on:
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"Leisure does not exist for the sake of work." (Pieper, 49)
"The power to know leisure is the power to overstep the boundaries of the workaday world and reach out to superhuman, life-giving existential forces that refresh and renew us before we turn back to our daily work." (Pieper, 50-51)
"Leisure, it must be clearly understood, is a mental and spiritual attitude – it is not simply the result of external factors, it is not the inevitable result of spare time, a holiday, a weekend, or vacation. It is, in the first place, an attitude of the mind, a condition of the soul, and as such utterly contrary to the ideal of 'worker.'"(Pieper, 46)
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