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ジャン=ジャック・ ルソーは囚人のジレンマを感じるのか?

Would Jean-Jacques Rousseau feel deeply the Prisoner's Dilemma?


池田光穂

THE SOCIAL CONTRACT OR PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL RIGHT, by Jean Jacques Rousseau, 1762[Translated 1782 by G. D. H. Cole], BOOK I 7. THE SOVEREIGN "In fact, each individual, as a man, may have a particular will contrary or dissimilar to the general will which he has as a citizen. His particular interest may speak to him quite differently from the common interest: his absolute and naturally independent existence may make him look upon what he owes to the common cause as a gratuitous contribution, the loss of which will do less harm to others than the payment of it is burdensome to himself; and, regarding the moral person which constitutes the State as a persona ficta, because not a man, he may wish to enjoy the rights of citizenship without being ready to fulfil the duties of a subject. The continuance of such an injustice could not but prove the undoing of the body politic. In order then that the social compact may not be an empty formula, it tacitly includes the undertaking, which alone can give force to the rest, that whoever refuses to obey the general will shall be compelled to do so by the whole body. This means nothing less than that he will be forced to be free; for this is the condition which, by giving each citizen to his country, secures him against all personal dependence. In this lies the key to the working of the political machine; this alone legitimises civil undertakings, which, without it, would be absurd, tyrannical, and liable to the most frightful abuses."




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