Yamamoto K
Kyushu Institute of Design, Fukuoka, Japan.
Coll Antropol. 1999 Jun;23(1):221-9.
How ethics and social order in a society without state power had originated and developed is one of enigmas which human beings have tried to solve for a long time. Several theories on the origin of social order have been proposed since the "Social Contract" theory of Thomas Hobbes. According to Hobbes, as a society without state power is in a condition called war, a social contract among men is the origin of social order in a society where every man is against every man. Rousseau says that when human beings reach the stage in which they live in a permanent neighborhood, a property system is introduced. Then, too much ambition and avarice of man who has possessions compel him to propose the formation of a political institution, providing social order which enables him to keep his possessions. According to Nietzsche, the principle of equilibrium, that is, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth is an important concept for the oldest theory of low and morality as well as the basis of justice. The sense of superiority and nobility which a strong man brave enough to take revenge feels is the origin of the antithesis "good" and "bad". Girard says that the sacred violence wielded by the community to sacrifice a surrogate victim brings about social order in a society without state power. All the aforementioned theories seem to have failed to find out that a society without state power has its own ethics that had spontaneously developed on the pagan culture. Previously, I indicated that a society without state power or a society where state power cannot function well, such as the tribal society in northern Albania, has ethics which is based on the ancient concepts of "Guest-god", "food (commensality)" and "blood". In the present paper, I propose a new theory on the origin of ethics and social order, using the model of ethics of the Kanun.
在没有国家权力的社会中,伦理道德和社会秩序是如何起源和发展的,这是人类长期以来一直试图解开的谜团之一。自托马斯·霍布斯的“社会契约”理论以来,人们提出了几种关于社会秩序起源的理论。根据霍布斯的观点,由于没有国家权力的社会处于一种被称为战争的状态,人与人之间的社会契约是每个人都相互对抗的社会中社会秩序的起源。卢梭说,当人类发展到永久聚居的阶段时,财产制度就被引入了。然后,拥有财产的人的过度野心和贪婪促使他提议建立一个政治机构,以提供能够让他保有财产的社会秩序。尼采认为,平衡原则,即以眼还眼、以牙还牙,是最古老的法律和道德理论的重要概念,也是正义的基础。一个勇敢复仇的强者所感受到的优越感和高贵感是“善”与“恶”对立的起源。吉拉尔说,社群施加神圣暴力以牺牲一个替代受害者,从而在没有国家权力的社会中带来社会秩序。上述所有理论似乎都未能发现,没有国家权力的社会有其在异教文化上自发发展起来的自身伦理道德。此前,我曾指出,没有国家权力的社会或国家权力无法有效发挥作用的社会,比如阿尔巴尼亚北部的部落社会,其伦理道德是基于“客神”、“食物(共餐)”和“血液”等古老概念的。在本文中,我将利用卡努恩伦理道德模式,提出一种关于伦理道德和社会秩序起源的新理论。