Between Sin and Salvation
The Seventeenth-Century Dutch Artisan Pieter Plockhoy and His Ethics of Work
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9969698 |
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| Authors | Henk Looijesteijn (0000-0002-1677-3249, International Institute of Social History, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | S19 |
| Pages | 69-88 |
| Publication date | 2011-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Review of Social History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-8590 • E-ISSN: 1469-512X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0020859011000459 |
| OpenAlex | W2121621586 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
There have been few attempts systematically to study the ethics of work in the early modern age on the basis of contemporary sources. Such a study should start with case studies of individual thinkers, as stepping stones to a more comprehensive study of the ethics of work. This article provides such a case study, of the seventeenth-century Dutch artisan Pieter Plockhoy (c.1620–1664). As will be shown, work was a central component of Plockhoy's philosophy of true, practical Christianity, and on the basis of his tracts a more or less coherent ethics of work can be reconstructed. Although this article concentrates on Plockhoy's philosophy of labour, his thought fits into a broader context of related contemporary thinkers, many of whom shared his concerns. Thus the article shows that for scholars wishing to study the ethics of work there is still a whole field which, though yielding a potentially rich harvest, lies fallow
Archaeology · Christianity · Context (archaeology · Environmental ethics · Field (mathematics · Social science · Sociology · Work (physics · Engineering · Historical Economic and Legal Thought · History · Philosophy · Religious studies · Religious Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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