“EMA Final Recreation should be rational. How has this idea been expressed at different times? Discuss with reference to both the ancient and the modern world.”

How do we spend our recreational time and who has influenced this through time. This assignment will be discussing the views of different influential people through time such as two ancient Greek philosophers, Aristotle and Epicurus, also covering the writing of Paul Lafargue, the French workers leader for a political take on the subject, and how each of these people have influenced how people spend their leisure time, who is entitled to leisure time and how people should be spending their leisure time.

Paul Lafargue, French workers leader, wrote The Right to be Lazy as an influence to the nature of work in a developing and industrialising society. His pamphlet was aimed to stir the working classes to protest against the long working hours and lack of recreational time (Pike, 2008, p.5). It was Lafargues opinion that for people to flourish, both physically and mentally they r…(short extract)