work hard, pray hard midterm

"The free man, on the other hand, is defined by his leisure, Greek (whence the English word "school"), Latin otium, whose neg-otium is a privation. One should be careful not to confuse leisure with idleness, or even with simple "free time" that corresponds to a "chronometric leisure" that Valery opposes to "interior leisure"

“Work,” David Pascal

encyclopedia article

"The impact of the world's reality upon human existence is felt and received as a conditioning force. The objectivity of the world—its object- or thingcharacter—and the human condition supplement each other; because human existence is conditioned existence, it would be impossible without things, and things would be a heap of unrelated articles, a non-world, if they were not the conditioners of human existence."

"The Human Condition" Hannah Arendt

chapter in an academic book

“Overprotected and fully secure, these beneficiaries of divine gifts lack the lack that drives human endeavor, commitment, and responsibility. This lack has serious consequences: their security has left them defenseless against the serpent’s alluring speech. It is precisely their carelessness that causes them to fall out of paradise and into a life of concern.”

"Pasture and the Garden" John Hamilton

chapter in an academic book

"And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; and the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, ‘This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.’"

"Genesis" King James

creation story

"Your food, your pasture, your homes, and your nests you shall have; they shall be the ravines and the woods, because it has not been possible for you to adore us or invoke us. There shall be those who adore us, we shall make other [beings] who shall be obedient. Accept your destiny: your flesh shall be torn to pieces. So shall it be. This shall be your lot."

Popol Vuh

creation story

"The shift of meaning from 'Man', meaning humankind, to a man' must however occur at the right moment. The reader's perception of this shift is guided by clues within the text itself. If in translation it occurs to early, affected by an andocentric bias, the message of the text is falsified."

"Genesis a New Look" Mary Korsak

chapter in an academic book

"Praised be You, my Lord, with all Your creatures, Especially Sir Brother Sun Who is the day and through whom You give us light. And he is beautiful and radiant with great splendor; And bears a likeness of You, Most High One."

"Canticle of Creation" Saint Francis of Assisi

poem

“When a mythical narrative was symbolically re-enacted, it brought to light within the practitioner something ‘true’ about human life and the way our humanity worked, even if its insights, like those of art, could not be proven rationally.”

Karen Armstrong, “Metaphysical Mistake: Confusion by Christians Between Belief and Reason has Created Bad Science and Inept Religion”

newspaper article

“For most of human history, work was about sustenance and survival. But in the past few centuries, work has morphed into something more: a means of identity, a way to find meaning, and for many, an inescapable necessity that structures their entire existence.”

Derek Thompson, “How Civilization Broke Our Brains”

magazine article

“Tilling” refers to cultivating, ploughing or working, while “keeping” means caring, protecting, overseeing and preserving. This implies a relationship of mutual responsibility between human beings and nature. Each community can take from the bounty of the earth whatever it needs for subsistence, but it also has the duty to protect the earth and to ensure its fruitfulness for coming generations.”

Pope Francis, Laudato Si’ On Care for Our Common Home

encyclical (letter)

“The modern age has carried with it a theoretical glorification of labor and has resulted in a factual transformation of the whole of society into a laboring society….What we are confronted with is the prospect of a society of laborers without labor, that is, without the only activity left to them. Surely, nothing could be worse.”

 "The Human Condition" Hannah Arendt

chapter in an academic book

"Consigned, then, to time, mankind’s relation to Care becomes clearer. The man possessed by care—homo curans—worries about that which can change, transform, or vanish, including, above all, himself. Again, care is an expression of mankind’s mortality."

John Hamilton, “Pasture and the Garden”

chapter in an academic book