![[Past Event] Work and Leisure in a Technological World with Dr. Clark Elliston](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/594177a115d5db3fbb9999bc/1611596957918-8YSOIEVS9A06F7P8DHQQ/Elliston.jpg)
Online Lecture, April 2nd, 2021 at 12:30pm Pacific Standard Time
The 21st century has seen a revaluation of work, now understood as a mode of self-realization and fulfillment, and Americans work longer and harder than ever before, despite having more material goods than ever before. Concomitantly, the modern world suffers from a devaluation of authentic leisure, which finds clear expression in two related areas of concern: sports and friendship, both of which have been co-opted by social media technologies promising ever-expanding immediacy of relation.
In this lecture, Elliston of Schreiner University builds on these realities to argue that philosophical technophilia seriously overlooks aspects of Western modernity which threaten the foundations of human flourishing. After all, it is not accidental that disparate aspects of human being, like aesthetic appreciation and basic sociality, diminish in technological societies. He concludes that the very aspects of technological advance that have contributed much to the betterment of humankind also contain within them seeds of destruction if left unrealized and unchallenged.
This lecture is part of the series Human Flourishing in a Technological Age, with lectures from John Behr, Thomas Fuchs, and others. Click here to see all the lecture titles and dates. The event series is sponsored by the Issachar Fund and presented by the Human Flourishing: A Christian Perspective project, which is directed by Prof. Jens Zimmermann and Dr. Michael Burdett.
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See more about Prof. Elliston and read more about the Human Flourishing project.
*Note: this live lecture is only available remotely via Zoom.