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』9-02 - 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9章:倫理的知識は存在するか? n.2 |
Human Society in Ethics and Politics, 1954, chapter 9:Is there Ethical knowledge, n.2 | |||
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To put the same problem in more technical language: When we examine what purport to be ethical statements, we find that they differ from statements asserting matters of fact by the presence of one or both of two terms, "ought" and "good", or their synonyms. Are these terms, or equivalents of them, part of any minimum vocabulary of ethics? Or are they definable in terms of desires and emotions and feelings? And, if so, do they have essential reference to the desires and emotions and feelings of the person using the words, or have they a reference to the general desires and emotions and feelings of mankind? There are words such as “I”, “here”, “now”, which have a different meaning for each different person who uses them, or even on each different occasion when they are used. Such words I call “egocentric”. Our question is: Are ethical terms egocentric? |