Recommendations
A carefully crafted list of readings to enhance your understanding.
Recommended Readings:
1. The Vocation Project Substack
Visit our Substack: At The Vocation Project Substack, we regularly publish articles covering work and happiness from a philosophical perspective.
Recommended Books:
1. Josef Pieper’s Leisure: The Basis of Culture
In this book, Josef Pieper explores how work gains meaning in relation to leisure, leading to a more dignified view of both.
2. Michael Sandel’s Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?
This work by Harvard ethicist Michael Sandel offers insight on many of the most pressing ethical problems of our era, ultimately offering virtue ethics as a way to clarify these issues.
3. Edward Feser’s Aquinas: A Beginner’s Guide
This book offers an introduction to Thomas Aquinas’s medieval interpretation of Aristotelian philosophy, offering a guide to one of the most influential philosophers in history.
4. Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning
Holocaust survivor and psychologist Viktor Frankl puts forth his idea of logotherapy, a sort of therapy focused on offering people a sense of meaning to resolve feelings of unhappiness.