 | Rod Bantjes - 2007 - 429 стор.
...no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention, in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally...as it is possible for a human creature to become. Notice here that he is saying not so much that it is an insult to the worker's intelligence, as that... | |
 | Norman E. Bowie, Robert L. Simon - 2008 - 294 стор.
...no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally...stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human being to become. The torpor of his mind renders him, not only incapable of relishing or bearing a part... | |
 | Andreas Hänlein - 2007 - 515 стор.
...no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally...the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes äs stupid and ignorant äs it is possible for a human creature to become."19 Die Arbeitsteilung ist... | |
 | Robert B. Louden Professor of Philosophy University of Southern Maine - 2007 - 340 стор.
...body of the people" will, as a result of the progress of the division of labor, necessarily become "as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become" — "unless government takes some pains to prevent it" (WN Vif50; cf. 61). His central hope is that... | |
 | Gertrude Himmelfarb - 2007 - 333 стор.
...even more eloquently than Ruskin, deplored the effects of the division of labor, which rendered a man "as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become. " This would be the condition of "the great body of the people, "Smith concluded, "unless government... | |
 | John E. Hill - 2007 - 290 стор.
...life in a job requiring repetitive operations might develop great skill in his trade while becoming "as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become." He became incapable of judgment in political issues and unable to defend his country if there were... | |
 | Robert F. Barsky - 2007 - 401 стор.
...nefarious effects; on this Smith said that the division of labor "will turn working people into objects as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to be."15 The antidote was government action, which should be initiated to overcome devastating market... | |
 | Satinder P. Gill - 2007 - 610 стор.
...occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his intervention in finding our expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally...as it is possible for a human creature to become. (...)His dexterity at his own particular trade seems in this manner, to be acquired at the expense... | |
 | Richard Olson - 2008 - 370 стор.
...occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention in finding out the expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally...becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a person to become." 22 The lack of stimulation of the mental faculties that goes with work under an... | |
 | Dennis Carl Rasmussen - 2010 - 208 стор.
...result, Smith writes — in as blunt a statement as can be found in his works — a laborer of this kind "generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become" ( WN Vif5o, 782). He follows this statement with a litany of criticism that surpasses anything Rousseau... | |
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The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects, too, are, perhaps, always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients... 
