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托斯丹·凡勃伦:有闲阶级论·摘录 146
托斯丹·凡勃伦《有闲阶级论》· The Theory of the Leisure Class · 投资
The habits derived from the predatory and quasi-peaceable culture are relatively ephemeral variants of certain underlying propensities and mental characteristics of the race; which it owes to the protracted discipline of the earlier, proto-anthropoid cultural stage of peaceable, relatively undifferentiated economic life carried on in contact with a relatively simple and invariable material environment. When the habits superinduced by the emulative method of life have ceased to enjoy the section of existing economic exigencies, a process of disintegration sets in whereby the habits of thought of more recent growth and of a less generic character to some extent yield the ground before the more ancient and more pervading spiritual characteristics of the race.
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定位:Excerpt 146 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录
白话
从掠夺文化和准和平文化中养成的习惯,其实只是人类某些底层倾向的短暂变体;这些底层倾向来自更早的、类人猿式的和平文化阶段——那时经济生活简单、分工少,环境也稳定不变。一旦竞争攀比的生活方式不再被现有经济条件需要,这些习惯就会开始瓦解:较晚形成、较不根本的思维习惯,会在更古老、更普遍的人类精神特性面前让位。换句话说,制度会变,但人性深处那些更古老的东西会重新浮现。所以,当攀比不再带来实际好处时,别硬撑旧习惯,要允许更本真的做事方式回来。
上下文
凡勃伦《有闲阶级论》讨论制度习惯的层次,区分晚近习得与古老本性。
今日一问
你坚持的某个习惯,是因为它真有用,还是只是因为别人都这样?
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