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1. www.newstatesman.com › ideas › 2020Why Bertrand Russell’s argument for idleness is more relevant ...

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   Aug 5, 2020 · We are used to thinking of idleness as a vice, something to be ashamed of. But when the British philosopher Bertrand Russell wrote “ In Praise of Idleness ” in 1932, at the height of the Great Depression, idleness was an unavoidable reality for the millions who had lost their jobs.

2. www.socratic-method.com › quote-meanings › franzFranz Kafka: 'Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the ...

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   Oct 22, 2023 · The quote by Franz Kafka, "Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues," has perplexed individuals over the years, sparking debates about the true nature of idleness. In a straightforward interpretation, Kafka suggests that laziness or inactivity holds the potential to lead individuals astray, causing them to engage in ...

3. philosiblog.com › 2011/08/09 › idleness-is-theIdleness is the mother of all vices. - philosiblog

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   Aug 9, 2011 · Idleness is the mother of all vices. – Russian proverb. An idol to many, Jackie Chan is rarely idle. Even in wax, he looks ready to take action! What does that mean? This is an old saying, and it has been told in many ways. What it talks about is that vices usually aren’t the associated with a busy person.

4. link.springer.com › chapter › 10A Brief Intellectual and Semantic History of “Idleness”

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   Aug 3, 2018 · This chapter provides a brief intellectual history of the many facets of the term and concept “idleness” and develops the continuities and differences between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries with regard to the traveller persona.

   • Author: Heidi Liedke, Heidi Liedke
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   Rather than being a vice, a certain degree of indolence was a central element of conducting a good life. Something similar was present in Michel de Montaigne’s (1533–1592) essay Of Idleness, where widespread negative judgment was reverted to praise of an idle life.

6. www.willbuckingham.com › work05-all-about-idlenessThe Opposite of Work? All About Idleness (Work #5)

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   May 31, 2021 · For many thinkers, this kind of “farting around” (or idleness) is a vice in need of correction. Benedict of Nursia, who wrote the book on monasticism, argued that idleness opens the door towards sin, and is ruinous of our virtue.

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   Is idleness a vice?

   • (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) We are used to thinking of idleness as a vice, something to be ashamed of. But when the British philosopher Bertrand Russell wrote “ In Praise of Idleness ” in 1932, at the height of the Great Depression, idleness was an unavoidable reality for the millions who had lost their jobs.

   Why Bertrand Russell’s argument for idleness is more relevant than ever

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   Is idleness the mother of all vices?

   • Idleness is the mother of all vices. Idleness is the mother of all vices. – Russian proverb An idol to many, Jackie Chan is rarely idle. Even in wax, he looks ready to take action! What does that mean? This is an old saying, and it has been told in many ways. What it talks about is that vices usually aren’t the associated with a busy person.

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   What does idleness mean in English?

   • In spoken language, it was common to associate the term idleness with inactivity and unemployment, and also the phrase “the idle rich.” In the OED, the phrase is mentioned, for instance, in 1865 in “He allows of no idle rich” and in 1894 in “He could not bear to be idle even for an hour.”

   A Brief Intellectual and Semantic History of “Idleness”

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   Is idleness a mentality?

   • Therefore, already in the Romantic age, the age that celebrated idleness as a method of being creative, idleness presents itself as a mentality that not everyone is refined enough to practise and in which a set of dichotomous tensions is inherent .

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   What is idleness & indolence?

   • Idleness is a multifaceted concept. Long before the eighteenth century, idleness was a central concern for Christianity. The church fathers and medieval Christianity mostly interpreted idleness and indolence as a manifestation of the sin of sloth, Acedia (Lyman 1989; Sadlek 2004 ).

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   Does everyone know how to “do” idleness properly?

   • It also becomes clear that not everyone knows how to “do” idleness properly since there are several prerequisites one has to fulfil in order to master this trait: as Wordsworth’s speaker epitomizes, there is a tendency for the idler to be male and articulate, that is educated and of a higher social class.

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8. onlinelibrary.wiley.com › doi › absLeisure and idleness in the Renaissance: the ambivalence of ...

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   But there is something noble about leisure and idleness. - If idleness really is the beginning of all vice, then it is at any rate in the closest proximity to all virtue; the idle man is always a better man than the active.