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』11-08- 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11章:生産と分配 n.8 |
Human Society in Ethics and Politics, 1954, chapter 11: Production and Distribution, n.8 | |||
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As regards our third class of goods - namely, those in which one man’s possession does not interfere, of necessity, with that of another - there ought to be no problem of distribution, but, in fact, there is. The sort of goods that I am thinking of have a very wide range, from a child’s joy in living to the most refined mental delights in the creation or enjoyment of works of genius. In so far as one person’s enjoyment of such delights interferes with another’s, this is due to remediable defects in the social system. Health, for example, ought to be nearly universal, but where work is excessive and medicine expensive it becomes the prerogative of the well-to-do. George Lansbury induced the authorities in Poplar to improve medical care by raising the rates beyond what was legally permitted, and thereby diminished the infant death-rate. For this, he was sent to prison. All the good things that depend upon higher education are, at present, the prerogative of a minority; and so are those that depend upon considerable leisure. In such ways there is, at present, competition which is not essentially necessary, but the remedy lies in politics rather than in ethics. |