JOBS

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JOBS: Work is a reality of life. We all need jobs, and for better or for worse, most of us will end up working one for the majority of our lives. In this day and age, we spend so much time worrying about how to get a job that we rarely reflect on whether or how work fits into a good life. Before embarking on career paths that may end only in retirement, we should ask: What is the importance of work in a human life? What do we want out of a job? What makes a job good one? What does a job have to do with happiness? What is the difference between a job and a vocation? This semester will consider these and related questions through a variety of artists, authors, and philosophers, e.g. Herman Melville, Errol Morris, Studs Terkel, Alain de Botton, Aristotle, Marx.