RLS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Industrial Revolution, Conspicuous Consumption, Protestant Work Ethic

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Recreation and Leisure Studies
• Course: RLS100
• Professor: Elizabeth Halpenny

Document Summary

Hunter gathers (more leisure time than later agricultural based cultures): Plato- believed in developing the person through education, philosophy, Socrates- knowledge was required to lead the good life and choose wisely (cid:498)best pleasures(cid:499) (cid:523)between pleasures(cid:524) Asceticism- using self-discipline and hard work to improve one"s self or the. Aristotle- a life of contemplation was the best use of leisure; with. Schole- greek term for leisure- means to use free time wisely for oneself. Leisured citizens were only about 20% of the population (elite class of males responsibility for enhancing the individual and the community community; unity of mind and body supported by the work of slaves) Hsiao yao- freedom from hardship; carefree state of being; selfless contemplation. Wang and stringer- daoism: harmony/balance; peace; search for solitude; (believed that all of that can be achieved through nature) Borrowed greek democracy, philosophy, art and architecture. Leisure was a tool to be used for social control of a growing middle class (bread and circus)