The One Good and Necessary Thing Which Cannot Be Taken Away

What thing constitutes an activity meaningful in itself?

In a previous post, I partially unpacked Josef Pieper’s claim that the totalitarian work state is the clear historical consequence of our faulty understanding of the concept of leisure.

As a quick recap, our faulty understanding of leisure has to do, in part, with our societal conflations of leisure with recreation, entertainment, or amusement. The latt…