The Path of Alienation in Work Ethics. Division of Labor and Personal Fulfillment in Smith, Marx and Wojtyla

Abstract

The aim of this article is to describe the relation between division of labor and ethics in the theories of Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and Karol Wojtyla. Thus, we attempt to give not only a description of the theory of work provided by these three authors, but also to show how there is a conceptual relation between them, when Wojtyla reacts against the Marxist anthropology and Marx studies and reinterprets the Smithian concepts of work, virtue and division of labor.