《沉思录·卷六·宇宙即变化》第33条
Neither the labor which the hand does nor that of the foot is contrary to nature, so long as the foot does the foot's work and the hand the hand's. So then neither to a man as a man is his labor contrary to nature, so long as it does the things of a man. But if the labor is not contrary to his nature, neither is it an evil to him.
注释摘要
这一段落用了一个朴素而有力的推理：手有手的工，脚有脚的工；只要手上在做手的工、脚下在做脚的工，这劳动就不是反自然的。既然不是反自然，也就不是恶，不是真正的坏事。往下推，人作为人有人的工。只要他所做的正是人之为人的事情，他的劳动便顺着人的自然本性而去；因此不管这劳动在感受上用掉多少力气、带来多少疲惫，它不但不是邪恶，压根就不该被叫作一种伤害。 这里的核心词是…