The ideal of otium and modernity "never work"
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The article proposes a brief history of the notion of “otium” from antiquity to the present day. It shows how, in ancient Greece, idle life is considered honorable and how, on the contrary, work is condemned, understood in the sense of the absence of freedom and the search for wealth as an end in itself. These ideas reappear in a course of history, for instance, in the treatise of behavior that flourishes in the Renaissance, in courtiers ideals as well as among the marginal classes of society.
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