高島善哉の市民社会論(上) : 日本の市民社会論史研究序説

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The concept "Civil Society" is a key word in social science of Postwar Japan. For our Japan, starting capitalistic development about one century behind compared with western Europe and America, modernization is only industrialization, not following by formation of "civil Society". The late Prof. Zenya takashima is one of the social scientists who introduced Postwar Japan to concept "Civil Society" and established it. He started its work from examination of Adam Smith's theory of "Civil Society". Adam Smith had yet posed concept of "Sympathy" in his first work's "The Theory of Moral Sentiments, 1759". Accoding to Adam Smith, concept of "Sympathy". is the most fundamental principle of "civil society". He referd to "commercial society" in his major writings "Wealth of nations, 1776". For Adam Smith, "commercial society" was just "Civil Society" where citizen with "Sympathy" to others had business and relations with.