On the category of labor in philosophical and theological aspects

The article states the approach to the analysis of labor which goes beyond just economic view of the fundamental category of human life. It considers the conceptions of labor presented in the works of J. Habermas, S. Veil, E. Mounier and partly in Hegel's “Phenomenology of the Spirit”. Main emphasis is made on the ontological and spiritual “components” of the labor phenomenon. It raises the issue of the social significance of the different kinds of labor which are irredundant just to the efficiency correlation of labor, leisure and game.