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6章:道徳的義務 n.24 |
Human Society in Ethics and Politics, 1954, chapter 6: Moral obligation, n.24 | |||
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We must therefore examine the possibility of dividing desires into good, bad, and indifferent. We have already seen that such a division is possible when “good” is defined as “satisfaction of desire”, since some kinds of desires are compossible and others are not. But a division made in this way is derivative, and considers desires only as means. The Stoic ethic requires that we should consider some desires intrinsically bad and others intrinsically good, or rather that we should consider acts inspired by certain desires intrinsically wrong and acts inspired by certain others intrinsically right. E.g. we might say: Acts inspired by hate are wrong and acts inspired by love are right. We are supposing this view to be held, not because of the consequences of such acts, but because of their intrinsic quality; and we are supposing it to be held in virtue of an ethical intuition. |