Philosophical Perspectives on Work | 2025

In this course, I examine contemporary philosophical perspectives on work and labor through the 20th century to the present, contrasting important themes from academic philosophers’ work with that of Rand. In particular, we will examine themes of the value of work, the concept of exploitation (from both Marxist and non-Marxist perspectives), feminist approaches to work, and the idea of a post-work society.

Prerequisites or Corequisites: 200-level courses require that students are enrolled in or have completed the “16-Week Objectivism Seminar” (which has the Fiction course as a prerequisite) or have completed the “Intensive Seminar on Objectivism”.

Course Start Date: October 17, 2024 |. Live Class Time: Thursdays, 8 – 10 am PT

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Course Includes

  • 8 Lessons
  • 8 Topics
  • 9 Writing Assignments
  • Course Faculty

    Tristan de Liege
    Tristan de Liege
    Dr. de Liège is a junior fellow at the Ayn Rand Institute. He received his PhD from the University of California, Riverside in 2021. His research centers on productive work and its relationship to well-being, Aristotle’s ethics, and virtue ethics.

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