Pre-Term Seminar
Duty in One’s Calling:
The Ethics of Work
Monday, August 31 | 1.00–7.30 | Elm Library
A half-day seminar exploring the ethics of work: Is work a burden or a blessing? Under what conditions do we experience work as meaningful and fulfilling? What does it mean to treat work as a calling? What distinguishes the professions (law, medicine, ministry, engineering, etc.) from other forms of work, and what are the obligations involved in professional life? Readings include selections from John Calvin, Benjamin Franklin, Max Weber, Hannah Arendt, and William F. May.
Led by Peter Wicks.
Schedule
1.00-1.30 LUNCH
1.30-2.45 Session 1: A Brief History of the Protestant Work Ethic
2.45-3.00 BREAK
3.00-4.15 Session 2: What is Good Work?
4.15-4.30 BREAK
4.30-5.45 Session 3: Ethics in the Professions
6.00-7.30 DINNER @ MORY’S
Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own work.
Ecclesiastes 3:22
Pehr Hilleström, A Carpenter (1794)