A Brief History of Creative Work and Plutonomy: Rethinking the Modern Thought-history of Work and Life - Couverture rigide

Varghese, Mathew

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9811592624 ISBN 13 : 9789811592621

Editeur : Springer Verlag, Singapore, 2020

Synopsis

​This book discusses the influence of creative work on human life, and the role it has played in shaping human civilization since antiquity. To do so, it analyzes the history of thought on creative work from three civilizations: Greek, Indian, and Chinese, as well as contemporary neurological studies on consciousness. According to the classical Greeks, humans are instinctively predisposed to use creative work to gain truth, wisdom and happiness; the Indians consider that Dharma (duty, morality, etc.) can be achieved only through work (karma); and for the Chinese, creative work is needed to attain the supreme wisdom (Dao). Modern studies on consciousness show that our brain creates a personal self-model (ego tunnel) when we learn things creatively, and developing such skills provides lifelong protection for the brain.
In the 21st century, human involvement in creative work is declining as we use mechanized systems to gain more and more profit, but thewealth falls into the hands of the few superrich: the Plutonomy. As creative work is taken over by AI systems, human work is reduced to operating those machines, and this in turn leads to an exponential growth in the number of part-time workers (Precariat). The declining value of human life today is a consequence of this change in society. Further, reducing creative work means we have no way to distribute wealth, nor do we have any means to address problems like the lack of enthusiasm in the young; the health crisis due to lack of physical activity; or the environmental crisis due to the high demand for energy to run mechanized systems. This book explores these issues.

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À propos de l'auteur

Mathew Varghese works on Middle-Path philosophical thought, and in his works, he ingeniously uses the critical investigation method of employing four-value logical analysis (catuṣkotī). He is a critic of the binary logical interpretation method being followed by many modern thinkers after Hegel. He argues that the problem of absolutes like plutonomy against which we have no intellectual freedom is a problem that originated out of the indiscriminate use of binary logical interpretations. Continued philosophical investigation--skepticism using tetralemma(catuṣkotī) is an original contribution of Indian philosophy since antiquity. He is a textual scholar of Middle Path (Mādhyamika) Buddhist philosophy and published three books and nearly 40 papers. He is a research fellow at The Hajime Nakamura Eastern Institute and also teaches philosophy at Aoyama Gakuin University, Kanagawa University, and Wako University in Tokyo.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer Verlag, Singapore
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9811592624
• ISBN 13: 9789811592621
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 282
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