Research On The Confucian Ethics Of Wealth In The Pre-Qin Period And Its Contemporary Significanc

The concept category of wealth view mainly refers to people’s concept or attitude towards wealth,the corresponding methods and measures taken to obtain wealth,as well as the social and ethical norms observed.The important content of the research on ethical wealth view refers to the research on the legitimacy of wealth,the guiding ideology and value judgment of acquiring wealth,as well as the sustainable development and sharing of wealth from the perspective of Ethics(including but not limited to the dimensions of humanities,morality,ecology and sharing).With the rapid development of China’s economy,how to interpret wealth,obtain wealth,keep wealth and even share wealth has become an urgent problem for modern Chinese people.Although the concept of wealth as a theoretical system is a modern concept,the theoretical explanation related to wealth changes with the development of human society and economy.In the pre Qin period,with the emergence of iron tools,social productivity has been greatly improved,resulting in a series of social wealth problems.The ethical wealth view of pre Qin Confucianism is the crystallization of wisdom based on the consideration and game of wealth.It can be seen that the ideas about wealth have been shining with wisdom in the excellent traditional Chinese culture since ancient times.Domestic economic ethics research has many summaries on the characteristics of China’s traditional wealth view.The mainstream view holds that the characteristics of China’s traditional wealth thought are:under the unique political ethics backgrounnd,when people discuss wealth,they look at it more based on the social and human relations background,such as the rationality of pursuing wealth,the legitimacy of profit seeking behavior The sustainability of wealth development(the relationship between man and nature)and the fairness of wealth distribution.Therefore,the essence of the Pre-Qin Confucian view of wealth is an ethical view of wealth.Its characteristics highlight the ethical attribute of wealth and the tension relationship between ethics and material interests,value rationality and instrumental rationality,righteousness and benefit.The core of the discussion is the unity of wealth and morality,righteousness and benefit,focusing on wealth distribution and sustainable development,and the goal is to realize the governance of the holy king of "enriching the country and the people".To discuss the ethical wealth view of Confucianism in the pre-Qin period,we can not avoid the view of righteousness and benefit,which originated in the pre-Qin period and runs through the whole development history of Confucianism.So what is the connection or difference between the two in essence?Here we need to make a brief explanation.The concept of justice and benefit is a kind of economic ethics.The core issue of discussion is which of justice and benefit occupies the dominant position in individual values,and which is based on justice or benefit.Among them,"what is appropriate" refers to a specific ethical code or moral principle.In the case of profit,"people’s use is profit",which refers to the material benefits needed for survival or enjoyment.How to treat the internal complex relationship and value orientation of the two forms the concept of righteousness and benefit.As mentioned above,the concept of ethical wealth is a view of wealth from the perspective of human relations and daily use,which is also human existence and development.The core issue involved is the wealth we pursue.What is its essential purpose or evaluation scale?On this basis,judge the legitimacy of the act of acquiring or controlling wealth.It can be found that the concept of justice and benefit is more inclined to a fundamental view in the sense of human value gradually formed on the basis of overall reflection on the whole history and social existence(refer to the tension relationship between Deontology and utilitarianism in the contemporary context).The concept of wealth is gradually formed in people’s life practice and living environment.It is based on the relationship between real wealth and people’s practice in a specific period and situation.In other words,starting from the physical needs of individual experience and transcendental spiritual demands,this paper makes a concrete discussion on the essential purpose and evaluation scale of wealth.Therefore,from the perspective of theory,the interpretation of ethical wealth can not be avoided and depends on the value guidance of the concept of righteousness and benefit.However,from the perspective of concrete reality,the concept of ethical wealth has its own social characteristics of the times,and reacts to the change of the concept of righteousness and benefit in the abstract sense through different judgments on the essence and function of wealth in concrete practice.The view of righteousness and benefit and the view of ethical wealth are a dynamic relationship between the particularity in the universality and the universality in the particularity.Based on the specific characteristics of the times and social problems(the wealth problem in the social practice of the Pre-Qin Dynasty)as the starting point of this study,although the full text is inseparable from the value guidance of the thought of righteousness and benefit,it takes the more practical and specific ethical wealth concept as the research goal.The pre Qin Confucian ethical wealth view takes the individual perceptual material wealth demand as the theoretical foundation,proposes to use the moral standard of "benevolence"(value rationality)to shape the individual wealth concept,and uses the flexible moral code of "righteousness" to guide the production relationship between man and man,man and society and even man and nature in the process of pursuing wealth,The rigid system of "ritual system" is used to regulate and realize the rule of the holy king of "desire is not poor in things and things are not succumbed to desire" advocated by Confucianism.Its purpose is to build an ethical wealth view including humanities,morality,ecology,sharing and other dimensions.In the report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China,it clearly called on the whole party to "always take the people’s yearning for a better life as the goal of struggle".The report makes a historic judgment from a strategic perspective.Socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era.The main social contradiction in China has been transformed into the contradiction between the people’s growing needs for a better life and unbalanced and insufficient development.The essence of "people’s yearning for a better life" here is the expression of various survival and development needs based on people’s material needs,spiritual needs,living environment needs and sharing needs.Under the value background of socialist market economy,how to face and weigh these new needs,new problems and new contradictions in economic development,so as to realize the construction of a better life.Combing and explaining the humanistic,moral,ecological and sharing dimensions of the ethical wealth view of Pre-Qin Confucianism can provide some historical materials and ideological resources.