A life beyond compulsory work
Begin with the freedom of a person and follow it into a different account of civilization.
5 essays · Human Flourishing
Human Flourishing
More room for human life.
Freedom from compulsory labor and a civilization better suited to the organisms who inhabit it.
THE QUESTION BEFORE US
We want a civilization in which human beings can connect, develop, care, discover, and live. That starts with people as biological and social organisms, with needs that institutions do not automatically serve. These essays explore optional labor, the conditions for family life, and the freedom to become something beyond an economic function. Intelligence matters because of the lives it could make possible.
- Why should labor remain a condition of survival?
- What would it mean to adapt civilization to humanity?
- How could institutions make relationships and personal development easier?
THE ESSAYS
The complete libraryExplore human flourishing.
A Life With Room to Become
Curiosity, late discoveries, and the freedom to develop beyond economic necessity.
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A World in Which Families Can Flourish
Imagining institutions that make connection, attachment, and raising children easier.
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Civilization for the Human Animal
Why our biological and social needs should shape the systems we inhabit.
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Labor Is Not the Purpose of Life
The case for welcoming automation as a release of human possibility.
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Civilization should be adapted to humanity, not humanity to civilization.