2008 年 15 巻 p. 167-178
It can be said that the thought of Hotoku and the ideas of the activities of social entrepreneurs, proposed by Okada Ryoichiro, are the base of the social responsibility of enterprises and the activities of social entrepreneurs, which have a lot of attention paid to today. By accepting the thought of utilitarian, Okada's Principle of ZAIHONTOKUMATSU expanded the limit of the thought of Hotoku, which had been regarded as the regeneration power of farming folks. It is believed that, as a result, the principle of ZAIHONTOKUMATSU had changed the quality of the thought of Hotoku, which had been the regulations for farmers, to entrepreneurs' philosophy in modern industries.