爱尔维修的实用思想及其现代意义

Claude Adrien Helvetius's Pragmatism for Contemporary Society

爱尔维修自称发现了精神活动的基本规律：利益是我们的唯一推动力。具体表现为：肉体感受性是人行动的最初原因；自爱表现为对权力之爱，实为对利益的追求；主张通过立法把人们要求个人幸福的倾向引导到公共幸福上去。他的实用思想给我们的启示是：利己与利他相结合能促进市场经济的发展；有益的相互畏惧迫使各人乃至各民族谨守本分。

Claude Adrien Helvétius claims to have discovered the fundamental principles of the human psyche,that is, we are driven by our innate desires.He holds that tendency to individual welfare can promote collective welfare by means of proper legislation,and that a combination of these personal and communal interests can promote that development of the market economy.Fear of one another can force every person and every nation to perform their duty to society as a whole.