Abstract

DAMIAN, Araceli. El tiempo necesario para el florecimiento humano: La gran utopía. Desacatos [online]. 2007, n.23, pp.125-146. ISSN 2448-5144.

According to the human flourishing approach, individuals can deploy all their capabilities and human needs through work. This paper debates the possibilities of attaining human flourishing within a society divided in classes, such as capitalism, given the alienated characteristics of work. It also questions the idea that free time can function as the space where human flourishing can be achieved, due to the increasing alienation it's being subjected to, which can be seen in the proliferation of activities oriented towards the "annihilation" of free time or, as Gianni Toti would say, of life itself.

Keywords : human flourishing; free time; alienation; work.

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