O trabalho na ontologia da vida: implicações éticas

• Autor(a) principal: Soares, Conceição
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/21122
• topic: Work on the ontology of life; Ethical implications

There is a clear tendency to reduce labor to employment, and in this way removing from the work all vitality and energy that are essential and which are not exhausted in capitalist societies. This tendency to see a job as the "unique" form of valid work is rooted in what Karl Polanyi called a formalistic view of the economy as opposed to a substantive view. The formalist view is one that accentuates the logical nature of the relationship means / ends, unlike the substantive which is linked to human purposes. It will be argued here that a substantive vision of the work is necessary for the "release" of the capitalist economic perspective, namely based in the particular dimension on the objective / productive work. On the one hand, I argue that a formalized economy overstates employment / work in its objective productive way. And on the other hand, to relocate the economy and work in a substantive vision leading to an "ontology of life" or the enhancement of concrete and subjective lives of people in its multiple relations and interrelations between human and nonhuman.