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Page 10 of 13 Productiveness: "The virtue of Productiveness is the recognition of the fact that productive work is the process by which man’s mind sustains his life, the process that sets man free of the necessity to adjust himself to his background, as all animals do, and gives him the power to adjust his background to himself. Productive work is the road of man’s unlimited achievement and calls upon he highest attributes of his character: his creative ability, his ambitiousness, his selfassertiveness, his refusal to bear uncontested disasters, his dedication to the goal of reshaping the earth in the image of his values. “Productive work” does not mean the unfocused performance of the motions of some job. It means the consciously chosen pursuit of a productive career, in any line of rational endeavor, great or modest, on any level of ability. It is not the degree of a man’s ability nor the scale of his work that is ethically relevant here, but the fullest and most purposeful use of his mind." Why is it a virtue? Smith explains: “The basic fact that renders productiveness a virtue is human beings' need to create the material values that sustain us. Productiveness is a virtue, fundamentally, because productiveness makes human survival possible. While the fundamental mandate for productiveness lies in our need to create material values, the rewards of being productive are spiritual, as well. Much of the spiritual value of productiveness rests in the qualities of character called upon for a person to exercise a virtue. Yet another spiritual benefit is selfesteem.” |
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