17 FEBRUARY
Social Purpose for Society
The absence of a basic social purpose for industrial society constitutes the core of our problem.
We already have given up the belief that economic progress is always and by necessity the highest goal. And once we have given up economic achievement as the highest value and have come to regard it as no more than one goal among many, we have, in effect, given up economic activity as the basis for social life. The abandonment of the economic as the socially constructive sphere has gone further. Western society has given up the belief that man is fundamentally Economic Man, that his motives are economic motives, and that his fulfillment lies in economic success and economic rewards.
We have to develop a free and functioning society on the basis of a new concept of man's nature and of the purpose and fulfillment of society. A basic ethical concept of social life must be developed. It lies in the philosophical or metaphysical field.
2月17日
社会的社会性目的
工业社会缺乏一个基本的社会目的，构成了我们问题的核心。
我们已经放弃了这样一种信念：即经济进步总是、并且必然是最高目标。而一旦我们放弃把经济成就视为最高价值，并开始把它仅仅看作众多目标中的一个，我们实际上也就放弃了把经济活动作为社会生活基础的观念。对“经济领域作为社会建构性领域”的放弃还在进一步深化。西方社会已经放弃了这样一种信念：即人从根本上是“经济人”，其动机是经济动机，其实现价值在于经济成功与经济回报。
我们必须在关于人的本性以及社会之目的与实现方式的一种新观念的基础之上，去建立一个自由而能够运作的社会。必须发展出一种关于社会生活的基本伦理观念。而这种观念，属于哲学或形而上学的领域。
