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弗雷德里克·巴斯夏:经济诡辩·摘录 341

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

It is not the business of political economy to inquire what society might have become had God made man otherwise than He has been pleased to make him. It may perhaps be a subject of regret that in the beginning, Providence should have forgotten to call to its counsels some of our modern _organisateurs_. And as the celestial mechanism would have been very differently constructed had the Creator consulted Alphonsus the Wise, in the same way had He only taken the advice of Fourrier, the social order would have had no resemblance to that in which we are forced to breathe, live, and move. But since we are here--since _in eo vivimus, movemur, et minus_--all we have to do is to study and make ourselves acquainted with the laws of the social order in which we find ourselves, especially if its amelioration depends essentially on our knowledge of these laws.

出处: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44145
定位:Excerpt 341 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录

白话

政治经济学不该去空想:假如上帝把人造成另一种样子,社会会变成什么样。巴斯夏说,有人遗憾创世时没请现代的组织家当顾问,否则社会秩序会大不相同;但这就像上帝若听了 Alphonsus the Wise 的建议,天体运行会完全不同一样,纯属假设。既然我们已经在现实社会中生活、行动,唯一该做的就是研究并认识这个社会秩序自身的规律,尤其因为改善社会恰恰取决于我们是否懂这些规律。所以别把精力花在改造人性的乌托邦设计上,而应脚踏实地理解现实社会的运行法则。

上下文

巴斯夏《经济诡辩》写于19世纪中叶法国,当时流行各种社会改造方案,他批评这些方案忽视现实人性与规律。

今日一问

我最近是否也在设想一个完美方案,却忽略了现实社会已有的运行规律?

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