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Idle Woman, painting by Daniel Hernández Morillo. Idleness is a lack of motion or energy. In describing a person, idle suggests having no labor: "idly passing the day". In physics, an idle machine exerts no transfer of energy. When a vehicle is not in motion, an idling engine does no useful thermodynamic work.
Tsurezuregusa (徒然草, Essays in Idleness, also known as The Harvest of Leisure) is a collection of essays written by the Japanese monk Kenkō (兼好) between 1330 and 1332. The work is widely considered a gem of medieval Japanese literature and one of the three representative works of the zuihitsu genre , along with The Pillow Book and the ...
The collection includes essays on the subjects of sociology, ethics and philosophy.In the eponymous essay, Russell displays a series of arguments and reasoning with the aim of stating how the 'belief in the virtue of labour causes great evils in the modern world, and that the road to happiness and prosperity lies instead in a diminution of labour' and how work 'is by no means one of the ...
The Idle 'Prentice Executed at Tyburn — Plate 11 of 12 of the series, showing the final reward of idleness. Industry and Idleness is the title of a series of 12 plot-linked engravings created by the English artist William Hogarth in 1747, intending to illustrate to working children the possible rewards of hard work and diligent application and the sure disasters attending a lack of both. [1]
Essays in Idleness Urabe Kenkō ( 卜部 兼好 , 1283–1350) , also known as Yoshida Kenkō ( 吉田 兼好 ) , or simply Kenkō ( 兼好 ) , was a Japanese author and Buddhist monk . His most famous work is Tsurezuregusa ( Essays in Idleness ), [ 1 ] one of the most studied works of medieval Japanese literature .
Later by the 1800s the rise of Romanticism changed attitudes of the society, values of work were re-written; stigmatization of idleness was overthrown with glamorous notions. John Pendleton Kennedy was a prominent writer in romanticizing sloth and slavery: in Swallow Barn (1832) he equated idleness and its flow as living in oneness with nature.
In Greek mythology, Aergia (/ eɪ ˈ ɜːr dʒ ə /; Ancient Greek: Ἀεργία, 'inactivity') [1] is the personification of sloth, idleness, indolence and laziness.She is the translation of the Latin Socordia, or Ignavia: the name was translated into Greek because Hyginus mentioned her being based on a Greek source, and thus she can be considered as both a Greek and Roman goddess.
Hours of Idleness was the first volume of poetry published by Lord Byron, in 1807, when he was 19 years old. [1] It is a collection of mostly short poems , many in imitation of classic Roman poets. Background