アダム・スミスにおける人間の理念
1971 年 1971 巻 24 号 p. 43-58
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1971 年 1971 巻 24 号 p. 43-58
In no other period has the problem of value in education met with so much confusion as in modern times. In our search towards a solution we have turned our attention to Adam Smith.
In his economic theory Smith appears to support self-love, but this is true only within historical limits. Hence the problem of the unlimited immorality of self-love remains. As a means to overcome this, Smith proposes the ideal of the value of labour. This ideal is further supported by the even higher ideal of men. This is what Smith called sympathy.
Sympathy is a kind of pity and consists in reducing one's neighbours' pain by making it one's own.
This ideal underlies all of Smith's thought, and accordingly education is nothing but the effort to realize this ideal.
