Thursday Talking Shop (TTS)

A group whose aim is to explore and talk about the ideas, beliefs, events and inventions that contribute to the way people live their lives today, meeting on the fourth Thursday of the month from 2 to 4 at members' homes. A recent discussion looked at the value of work, which opened up more channels the longer the group thought about it, from how work is even defined and whether labour is good in itself, to dignity and status through work, work as self expression, Plato's three level system of labour, and the scepticism of philosophers and social theorists since the Industrial Revolution about work centred cultures.