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弗雷德里克·巴斯夏:经济诡辩·摘录 215

弗雷德里克·巴斯夏《经济诡辩》· Economic Sophisms · 投资

When shall we be done with these puerile declamations? When will _tartuferie_ be finally banished from science? When shall we cease to exhibit this nauseous contradiction between our professions and our practice? We hoot at and execrate personal _interest_; in other words, we denounce what is useful and good (for to say that all men are interested in anything is to say that the thing is good in itself), as if personal interest were not the necessary, eternal, and indestructible mainspring to which Providence has confided human perfectibility. Are we not represented as being all angels of disinterestedness? And does the thought never occur to those who say so, that the public begins to see with disgust that this affected language disfigures the pages of those very writers who axe most successful in filling their own pockets at the public expense? Oh! affectation! affectation! thou art verily the besetting sin of our times!

出处: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44145
定位:Excerpt 215 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录

白话

巴斯夏质问:我们何时才能停止这些幼稚的慷慨陈词?何时才能把虚伪从科学中清除?我们谴责个人利益,仿佛它是万恶之源,但个人利益恰恰是上天赋予人类进步的永恒动力。说人人对某事感兴趣,就等于说这件事本身是好的。那些满口无私的人,自己却在利用公职中饱私囊,公众对此已感到厌恶。伪善是我们时代最大的毛病。核心是:不要嘴上否定利益,行动上却占便宜;承认利益是正当的,才能诚实地讨论政策。

上下文

巴斯夏是19世纪法国经济学家,《经济诡辩》写于1840年代,批判保护主义。当时法国流行用道德辞藻为贸易壁垒辩护。

今日一问

我是否也曾用高尚口号掩盖自己的实际利益?

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