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センター試験。現代社会でプリプリ「ダイアモンド」に引っかけた、変ちくりんなフレーズがあって笑えた。倫理。

This is something more than social conscience.Individuals are not solitary masters of pre-given preference; what others need and what they lack are constitutive of their own needs. It is as common for us to need things on behalf of others, to need good schools for the sake of our children, safe streets for the sake of our neighbours, decent old people's homes for the strangers at our door, as it is for us to need them for ourselves. The deepest motivational springs of political involvement are to be located in this human capacity to feel needs for others.（17、Ignatieff The Needs of Strangers）

ついでに。

I must again repeat, what the assailants of utilitarianism seldom have the justice to acknowledge, that the happiness which forms the utilitarian standard of what is right in conduct, is not the agent's own happiness, but that of all concerned. As between his own happiness and that of others, utilitarianism requires him to be as strictly impartial as a disinterested and benevolent spectator.In the golden rule of Jesus of Nazareth, we read the complete spirit of the ethics of utility. To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality.（148、Mill Utilitarianism）

功利主義の基準である幸福をつきつめていくと、結局は利他的人間観にいきつく。