#547 Alison Suen: Why It's OK to Be a Slacker
The Dissenter
The Morality of Slacking
A slacker is not necessarily someone who never works and just eats of others. In fact, they do need to be somewhat productive and responsible in order to slack in a sustainable way. So if you want to slack in peace, dou need to do some work, right?
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Dr. Alison Suen is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Iona College, New York. She is the volume editor of Response Ethics (2018), the author of The Speaking Animal: Ethics, Language and the Human Animal Divide (2015), and Why It’s OK to Be a Slacker.
In this episode, we focus on Why It’s OK to Be a Slacker. Topics include: what is a slacker?; the different types of slacker, including academic slackers; hyper-productive societies, and how our work is part of our identity; the morality of slacking; the best arguments against slacking; leisure and human flourishing; slacking during the covid-19 pandemic; and a connection to nihilism, and the purposelessness of life.
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