It's Our Duty To Be Socially Useful Through Work
Having discussed work as a social duty, we now address our duty to be socially useful through work . The concept of work as a social duty involves: 1) recognizing the fact that we are social beings and therefore our work always involves and includes others; 2) ultimately realizing that our cooperation with each other in our work must ultimately conform to God's plan. We've seen how work done in the past provides a "connecting link" in binding together the past and the future with our present work. Our duty to be socially useful through work expands on this social nature of our work. Essentially this consists of our work providing the means to help our neighbors. Here we're not talking about work that is designed to help others in the form of so-called "social work." The fact is we are all continually receiving help from others in the material goods produced by others, as well as the moral, cultural and even national legacy into which we are b...