#547 Alison Suen: Why It's OK to Be a Slacker
RECORDED ON JULY 29th 2021.
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.
Time Links:
Intro
What is a slacker?
Different kinds of slackers
How we feel about being productive in modern societies
The morality of slacking
Arguments against slacking
Human flourishing
Slacking during the covid-19 pandemic
Nihilism, and the purposelessness of life
A final message
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