 | Robert B. Louden Professor of Philosophy University of Southern Maine - 2007 - 340 ページ
...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... | |
 | John E. Hill - 2007 - 290 ページ
...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... | |
 | Gertrude Himmelfarb - 2007 - 333 ページ
...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... | |
 | Robert F. Barsky - 2007 - 401 ページ
...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 ページ
...the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his intervention in finding our expedients for removing difficulties which never occur....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 ページ
...the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention in finding out the expedients for removing difficulties which never occur....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 ページ
...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... 
