| Deirdre Nansen McCloskey - 2010 - 637 頁
...talents in different men is, in reality, much less than we are aware of. ... The difference between ... a philosopher and a common street porter, for example,...from nature, as from habit, custom, and education. . . . [F]or the first six or eight years of their existence . . . neither their parents nor their playfellows... | |
| Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller (Jr.), Jeffrey Paul - 2006 - 342 頁
...liberties to speak, write, 2 "The difference between ... a philosopher and a common street porter . . . seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, and education." Adam Smith, Thc Wealth of Nations, Harvard Classics, vol. 10 (New York: Collier, 1909), book 1, chapter... | |
| Ann Allart Wilcock - 2006 - 392 頁
...difference of natural talents... is not ... so much the cause, as the effect of labor. The difference ... seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, and education."117 However, he also recognized that the division of labor could decrease the quality of... | |
| Adam Smith - 2007 - 597 頁
...effect of the division of labour. The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature, ss from habit, custom, and education. When they came into the world, and for the first six or eight... | |
| Frank William Taussig - 2013 - 601 頁
...difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, education." 1 Rousseau believed that with proper education he could shape men's capacities at will;... | |
| Michael Lewis - 2007 - 1476 頁
...the effect of the division of labor. The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example,...alike, and neither their parents nor play-fellows could perceive any remarkable difference. About that age, or soon after, they come to be employed in... | |
| Siu-ming Kwok, Maria A. Wallis - 2008 - 312 頁
...the effect of division of labour. The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example,...alike, and neither their parents nor play-fellows could perceive any remarkable difference.22 It is not my purpose here to examine whether Smith's emphatically... | |
| Stephen McCarthy, David Kehl - 2008 - 294 頁
...On Smith, note his view that the difference between a philosopher and a street porter (or labourer) "seems to arise not so much from nature as from habit, custom and education" (Smith 1976a: 28-29, I, ii,4). See also Alvey ( 1988b: 7). On Rousseau, see his Second Discourse (in... | |
| Martha Craven Nussbaum - 2008 - 418 頁
...Smith argued that even a difference as great as that between a philosopher and a "common street porter" "seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, and education" (WN 28-29). ' He relied on this idea when he made his radical arguments in favor of compulsory free... | |
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