Open AccessThe meaning and value of work
Author(s) -
Jovan Babić
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
zbornik matice srpske za društvene nauke/zbornik matice srpske za društvene nauke
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-0836
pISSN - 0352-5732
DOI - 10.2298/zmsdn0723007b
Subject(s) - scrutiny , meaning (existential) , value (mathematics) , sociology , scope (computer science) , work (physics) , articulation (sociology) , subject (documents) , capitalism , economic justice , epistemology , law and economics , positive economics , political science , law , economics , computer science , philosophy , politics , mechanical engineering , machine learning , library science , programming language , engineering
The article begins with a list of possible meanings of work, based in a suitable definition of life as an activity of setting goals and their materialization. The value of work is instrumental (although it has an intrinsic value as well), and its articulation and distribution is the subject of ethical scrutiny in the remainder of the article. The issues of social roles in this distribution have been discussed in more detail, along with issues of justice, rights, and moral restraints regarding work. The article ends with a projection of contemporary capitalism, which shows a very strong tendency to enhance its scope in so far uncovered parts of social life