バートランド・ラッセル『ヒューマン・ソサエティ-倫理学から政治学へ』- Human Society in Ethics and Politics, 1954
* 原著:Human Society in Ethics and Politics, 1954* 邦訳書:バートランド・ラッセル(著),勝部真長・長谷川鑛平(共訳)『ヒューマン・ソサエティ-倫理学から政治学へ』(玉川大学出版部,1981年7月刊。268+x pp.)
『ヒューマン・ソサエティ』第5章:部分的善と一般的善 n.3 |
Human Society in Ethics and Politics, 1954, chapter 5: Partial and General Goods, n.3 | |||
忠誠を誓うべきもうひとつのセクションは、自分の(属する)階級である。当時、臣民には何の権利もなかった。貴族が統治していた時代、ジョン・マナーズ卿は不朽の名台詞で彼らの主張を述べた: 法と学問、芸術と風俗は滅びさせよ しかし、神は私達の古き気高さを守ってくださる |
Some men give their loyalty, not so much to their country, as to their colour: white, black, brown, yellow, as the case may be. I am told that at Port au Prince, in Haiti, there are statues of Christ and Satan: Christ is black, and Satan is white. This strikes white men as odd, but the opposite practice of Christian art everywhere else appears to them entirely natural. Kipling proclaimed white supremacy with his doctrine of “lesser breeds without the law”. The Chinese believed in yellow supremacy till 1840, and the Japanese till 1945. All these points of view involved the belief that only the good of one race is important. Another section to which some hold that loyalty should be confined is one’s own class. The King, in his palmy days, took for his motto: “God and my right”; at that time, subjects had no rights. When the aristocracy governed, Lord John Manners stated their claims in the immortal lines: Let laws and learning, art and manners, die. But God preserve our old nobility. |