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The Contemplative Life: Learning to Value Denkwerk

The Contemplative Life: Learning to Value Denkwerk

What happens when a society stops valuing thinking as work? What happens when commodities become more important than the people that produce them?

Posted on June 3, 2019July 18, 2021 by Live Life OutdoorsIn Education, Teaching5 Minutes Read

Tag: Paradigm

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Finding Greater Meaning in the Mundane. This podcast is a companion piece to the essay, “Denkwork: the Promise of Work, and the Work of Promises”, from September of 2019

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