Charles Sylvester

TL;DR: The authors investigates the classical conception of leisure in its sociopolitical context and finds that theories of work and leisure were politicized by aristocrats in an effort to exclude ordinary citizens from membership in the city-state.

TL;DR: This article explored the right to leisure through a variety of documents and discourses, and the relevance and several implications of the right for leisure for therapeutic recreation are raised, leading to a recommendation for reform.

TL;DR: The true identity of therapeutic recreation can never be settled once and for all, because therapeutic recreation is a social construction, not an objective necessity, leaving it open to being something different than it presently is as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: A reconciliation between facts and values, providing a more reasonable theory of reason better suited to moral relevance, is possible as discussed by the authors, which will require a more diverse and broader approach to inquiry that integra-tively includes empirical, interpretive, and critical methods.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the Leisure Ability concept from a philosophical and ethical perspective, and concluded that the relationship between leisure and treatment is a conceptual quandary that must be resolved.