Distributive Justice Revisited : Economic Theory, Political Thought and Policy

首先，我们确认了我们的社会无法回避“分配正义”问题，因此，我们需要关于人类预期寿命的“福利哲学”或“幸福理论”，这是以前社会科学研究所忽视的问题。其次，我们的考察使我们认识到，当我们把现代社会定性为商业社会或经济社会时，我们不可避免地要面对功利主义，因为我们需要预设构成社会的经济主体的“自然欲望”和“基本需要”。这是因为我们的研究比较集中在边沁。第三，我们不断推动研究的全球化，并从日本发出学术信息。实际上，我们在10次国际研讨会中开了4次国际研讨会，邀请了来自英国、美国、加拿大、法国、意大利和韩国的十几位外国学者。这在人文社会科学领域似乎很少见。我们将继续开展这种活动，以促进派遣日本起源研究成果。最后，我们意识到，我们必须调查以下两个重要议程，我们的研究还没有充分处理。这两个部分分别是：（a）对当前主流经济学关于分配正义理论的评价;（B）对实现“正义”的合理分配政策的现实建议。此外，我们应该给年轻学者展示他们的研究成果的机会。

Firstly, we confirmed our society cannot avoid the issue of ‘distributive justice', and therefore, we need ‘philosophy of welfare' or ‘theory of happiness' on expected human life that former social scientific research on the matter has neglected. We also realized that this kind of research should be an interdisciplinary with economics, ethics, philosophy and etc.Secondly, our investigation leads us to the fact that we inevitably face with utilitarianism, when we characterize modern society as a commercial society or an economic society, because we need to presuppose the ‘natural desire' and the ‘basic need' of economic agents that compose society. This is because our research has rather focuses on Bentham.Thirdly, we have continuously promoted globalization of research and sending academic messages from Japan. In fact, we opened four times of international seminars out of ten seminars by inviting a dozen of foreign scholars from Britain, United States, Canada, France, Italy, and Korea. This seems rare in the field of humanities and social sciences. We will continue to do this kind of activities for stimulating dispatching Japanese origin research accomplishment.Lastly, it is realized that we have to investigate the following two significant agenda that our research has not treated enough. They are (a)the evaluation of current orthodox economic theory on distributive justice, (b)some actual proposals of proper distributive policy that would realize ‘justice'. In addition, we should have given opportunities to young scholars for presenting their research results.