While thinking about how one should live I came up with two main philosophies for living life. Work or play. I couldn't decide which one was a better way to live. After talking to a few people I realized I wasn't even sure what I meant by work and play. To some, work meant sitting at a desk on the grind, but to me it meant more. To me work is more like accomplishing something major in your life, or leaving a legacy. Working hard for something that would encourage future generations to be proud of there ancestor. I also found that play seemed to mean something different to everybody. Some said it was going out with your friends, having one of those wild nights. To others it was being outside and enjoying the outdoors. So like most, after some deep thought, I am no closer to knowing how to live. There can't be any set rules, because it's life. Everyone has to live for something different.
Work or Play?
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I do not think that the way a person should live their life is as simple as to “work or play.” But rather for some to live a fulfilling life they need to both work and play. Martha Nussbaum’s Central Human Capabilities have ten ideas that define what a person’s life should need. In these capabilities it outlines that a person both needs to be able to play and work as they please. Nussbaum goes on to say, “imagining a life without the capability in question, that such life is not worth living at all.”(Social Contracts and Three Unsolved Problems of Justice, 78) I agree with her sentiment. A person needs an opportunity to do both work and play or they will never live a complete life.
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