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托斯丹·凡勃伦:有闲阶级论·摘录 90

托斯丹·凡勃伦《有闲阶级论》· The Theory of the Leisure Class · 投资

The group is made up of individuals, and the group's life is the life of individuals carried on in at least ostensible severalty. The group's accepted scheme of life is the consensus of views held by the body of these individuals as to what is right, good, expedient, and beautiful in the way of human life. In the redistribution of the conditions of life that comes of the altered method of dealing with the environment, the outcome is not an equable change in the facility of life throughout the group. The altered conditions may increase the facility of life for the group as a whole, but the redistribution will usually result in a decrease of facility or fullness of life for some members of the group. An advance in technical methods, in population, or in industrial organization will require at least some of the members of the community to change their habits of life, if they are to enter with facility and effect into the altered industrial methods; and in doing so they will be unable to live up to the received notions as to what are the right and beautiful habits of life.

出处: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/833
定位:Excerpt 90 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录

白话

群体由个人组成,群体的生活就是个人至少在表面上各自分开进行的生活。群体所接受的生活方案是这些个人对什么是正确、美好、适宜和美丽的人类生活方式的共识。由于处理环境的方式改变而带来的生活条件的重新分配,其结果并不是整个群体生活便利性的均匀变化。改变的条件可能增加整个群体生活的便利性,但重新分配通常会导致群体中某些成员生活便利性或充实性的减少。技术方法、人口或工业组织的进步将要求社区中至少一些成员改变生活习惯,如果他们想轻松有效地进入改变后的工业方法;而这样做时,他们将无法遵循关于什么是正确和美好生活习惯的流行观念。

上下文

凡勃伦《有闲阶级论》讨论社会变迁中利益和负担的不均匀分配,以及个人习惯与流行观念的冲突。

今日一问

当技术进步要求我们改变习惯时,我们如何平衡效率与传统文化观念?

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