バートランド・ラッセル(著)「何を信ずるか」第2章「善い生活」から
* 出典:バートランド・ラッセル(著),大竹勝(訳)「何を信ずるか」(『(宗教は必要か)』(荒地出版社,1977年5月。253pp.)pp.66-109 に所収.* 原著:What I Believe, 1925.)
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善い人生(生活)とは愛によって鼓舞され,知識によって導かれる人生である。 |
There have been at different times and among different people many varying conceptions of the good life. To some extent the differences were amenable to argument; this was when men differed as to the means to achieve a given end. Some think that prison is a good way of preventing crime; others hold that education would be better. A difference of this sort can be decided by sufficient evidence. But some differences cannot be tested in this way. Tolstoy condemned all war; others had held the life of a soldier doing battle for the right to be very noble. Here there was probably involved a real difference as to ends. Those who praise the soldier usually consider the punishment of sinners a good thing in itself; Tolstoy did not think so. On such a matter no argument is possible. I cannot, therefore, prove that my view of the good life is right; I can only state my view, and hope that as many as possible will agree.
My view is this:
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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