 ... has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant...  Education in the Nineteenth Century - Side 217redigeret af - 1901 - 274 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | James Buchan - 2009 - 468 sider
...removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.' An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, ed. RH Campbell, AS Skinner and WB... | |
 | Eyal Chowers - 2004 - 278 sider
...removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become. The uniformity of his stationary life naturally corrupts the courage of his mind, and makes him regard... | |
 | Adam Smith - 2004 - 260 sider
...removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.' So although markets and division of labour provide great material benefits, Smith also believed they... | |
 | Christopher Winch, John Gingell - 2004 - 184 sider
...removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become. (Smith [1776], (1981), Book V, S.785-786) Smith wrote both as an observer and as a propagandist for... | |
 | Domenico Losurdo - 2004 - 404 sider
...Smith. In the Wealth of Nations, he contrasts the wage laborer who, because of the monotony of labor, "generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become," a person unable to take part "in any rational conversation" or of "conceiving any generous" sentiment,... | |
 | John Macdonald - 2004 - 264 sider
...expedients for difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become." That doesn't sound as if Smith wanted the workers to hang up their brains along with their caps when... | |
 | Jay Schulkin - 2004 - 388 sider
...expedients for difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become. iWealth of Nations, 1776, pp. 734-735i Owing to the fact that workmen . . . have been taught ... by... | |
 | Arthur Rich - 2006 - 736 sider
...occasion to exert his understanding.... He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.26 Smith thus understands the already much-discussed connection between work and personality27... | |
 | Meghnad Desai - 2004 - 388 sider
...independence. This in turn has some negative aspects too. Division of labour is mind-numbing. Workers become 'as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to be'. Smith continues to point out the dehumanizing effects of specialized routine work in almost modern... | |
 | Gregory Claeys - 2005 - 520 sider
...removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is...human creature to become. The torpor of his mind, not only renders him incapable of relishing, or bearing a part, in any rational conversation: but of... | |
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