“It is very customary when we get older to consider that young people are lazy,” says Éric Fiat, teacher-researcher and associate professor of philosophy. Already in the time of Seneca (first century AD), these remarks were made.
However, Éric Fiat sees it as a form of nostalgia and above all an idealization of the past. For him, to say that young people today are lazy is to forget that we were young and to imply that the value of work is the highest of values.
SO ? Is laziness really the disease of youth? And aren’t young people right to question the value of work?
To help us answer these questions, Éric Fiat calls on Françoise Dolto, Hannah Arendt and Rodin.
Find his mini-video dissertation at the top of this article.