Morelly

Japanese: モレリー（英語表記）Morelly

An 18th-century French philosopher. His birth and death years, as well as his life, are unknown. Born around 1715, he became involved in high society after his career as a teacher, and is said to have spent about three years in Prussia. In his early works he preached an educational philosophy based on sensationalism, but in the 1750s his ideas became more radical and utopian. In his long poem of 14 songs, The Disaster of the Floating Island, or Basiliad (published anonymously in 1753), he sang of a society of perfect equality, and in his Code de la nature (published anonymously in 1754), he provided a theoretical justification for Basiliad, criticized private ownership as being contrary to "the harmony of God," and developed a vision of a rational, optimistic communist society based on collective education and free of all luxury.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

フランス18世紀の哲学者。生没年も生涯も不明。1715年ころに生まれ，教師生活ののち上流社会に出入りし，プロイセンにも3年ほど滞在した形跡がある。初期作品では感覚論に立脚した教育哲学を説いたが，50年代に入って思想が先鋭になると同時にユートピア的性格を帯びる。14の歌より成る長編詩《浮島の遭難またはバジリヤッド》(1753年匿名出版)では完全平等の社会をうたい，さらに《自然の法典Code de la nature》(1754年匿名出版)では《バジリヤッド》に理論的根拠を与えて，〈神の調和〉に背く私有制を批判し，集団教育に基づく，あらゆる奢侈を排した合理的･楽観的な共産社会の構想を展開した。

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