With rising per-capita income and the prospect that AI could replace most work, some people advocate a world in which robots do nearly all useful work, and human beings live lives of perfect freedom. I contrast this post-work ethic with the original work ethic of 17-century Puritans, its evolution into the social democratic vision of the 20th century, and how that can be updated into a fully humanistic ideal of work for the 21st-century.
This philosophy talk is presented by Elizabeth Anderson, John Dewey Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy and Women’s Studies at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she has taught since 1987. She specializes in moral and political philosophy, social and feminist epistemology, and the philosophy of the social sciences.
Open to all members of the Oberlin campus community
