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Author Kelly, Conor M., author.

Title The fullness of free time : a theological account of leisure and recreation in the moral life / Conor M. Kelly.

Publication Info. Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (xxix, 249 pages).
text file
Series Moral traditions series
Moral traditions series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents A Necessary Distinction between Leisure and Recreation -- An Ethical Framework of Everyday Solidarity -- Leisure and the Principle of Everyday Solidarity -- Leisure and the Virtue of Everyday Solidarity -- Television -- Digital Media Use -- Spectator Sports -- Travel -- Conclusion.
Summary "This book argues that free time-defined as "time free from work, obligation, or any other necessary activity"-is one example of the goodness that can be celebrated as a source of happiness, if only people are primed to see it that way. At the moment, however, there is not a robust sense of the goodness of free time. In the public consciousness, leisure and recreation readily align with binge watching Netflix and laziness. There needs to be both a higher vision for what free time can become, so that people will assess it in light of its potential rather than its nadir, and a clearer sense of the practical path that ordinary people can follow to achieve this end, so that this lofty potential is not relegated to the fate of dismissiveness that befalls all quixotic proposals. These two concerns serve as the rationale for this book, which provides a deeply theological vision for the fullness of free time and then explores how the resources of theological ethics, especially the Catholic understanding of solidarity, can help moral agents transform leisure and recreation for themselves and in their communities in order to make this goodness of free time more apparent and more appealing"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Leisure -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Leisure -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Recreation -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Recreation -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Leisure -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church.
Leisure -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church.
Recreation -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church.
Recreation -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church.
RELIGION / Ethics.
Other Form: Print version: Kelly, Conor M.. The fullness of free time Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, 2020. 9781647120139 (DLC) 2020003727
ISBN 1647120152 electronic book
9781647120153 (electronic book)
9781647120139 hardcover
9781647120146 paperback