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』8-10 - 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8章:倫理学上の論争 n.10 |
Human Society in Ethics and Politics, 1954, chapter 8: Ethical Controversy , n.10 | |||
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Let us take another illustration, more germane to current affairs than that of slavery -- I mean, nationalism. The world at the present moment ( 1946 ) is full of angry and suspicious groups: Jews and Arabs, Hindus and Moslems, Yugoslavs and Italians, Russians and Anglo-Americans, not to mention the submerged Germans and Japanese. Each of these groups believes its interests to be incompatible with those of a group to which it is hostile, and has no moral scruples in pursuing what it holds to be its own interests at no matter what cost to its enemies. All statesmen realize that if this attitude persists the outcome must be another world war, fought with atomic bombs, and involving all the combatants in a common ruin. Zionists will be exterminated and their works in the Promised Land destroyed; Arabs will survive only in small numbers in the desert. Hindus and Moslems alike will see their sacred cities destroyed, their populations reduced by war and famine to a small fraction of their present numbers, and their fertile lands reverting to wilderness. If there is no agreement about Trieste, Trieste, in common with other cities, will cease to exist. If Russia and the Western democracies cannot compose their differences peaceably, neither communism nor democratic capitalism will survive, but only roving bands of anarchic brigands. This is not what is desired by any of the wrangling groups, but it is what will inevitably result if they are incapable of perceiving to how large an extent the true interests of each group are bound up with the general good as opposed to the illusory hope of their private and particular victory. |