On The Economic And Moral Level

When the accomplished mode system loses its analytic and admonitory forces, theoretical workers will be called on to "produce" new words to analyze new phenomena and admonish new conduct.Against the background of economic globalization and in the construction of the market economy, we always felt tormented when we could do nothing but persuade people in a political way against moral criticism of the socialist market economy and were puzzled about how to tell people when to boldly make profit and when to self-lessly make contributions when they were lost in formal conflicts between mainstream ideology and special economic forces. However, having remembered what Engels had said-"people, consciously or unconsciously, absorb their morality ultimately from the practical relation their class status lies on, that is, from the economic relation of manufacturing and exchanging. "(1)-we are again rationallyaware of our holy duty.we As should provide metaphysical interpretations, based on economy itself or above economy,or beyond economy or beneath economy, to the inevitable physical problems people meet in the changing economic reality. Then, what kind of ethic should we moral scholars obtain from the changed" economic relations of manufacturing and exchanging" to adjust to the changed socialist market economy when we find "the confusion of moral languages has brought about not only theoretical confusion but also unnecessary practical perplexity"(2)?This paper outlines the macroscopic, mediumscopic and microscopic layers of(1) Marx and Engels, Selected Works of Mane and Engels,Published by People's Press,Beijing, China, 1972.pp.133.(2) RichardMervyn Hare,The Language of Morals, Oxford University Press, 1964. p. 1. Translated into Chinese by Wan Junren,Published by Business Affairs Press,Beijing,China, 1999. p. 5.moral mode system corresponding to those of social economic life and names them "the ethic of economic development "," the ethic of economic operation "and" the ethic of economic contact", which can be referred to as "theory of the moral layers in the socialist market economy" in general terms and "theory of economic moral layers" in brief terms, the following diagram gives us an outline of it:conceptprinciplenormthe ethic of economic developmentcollective interestbenefit combined with speed taking into account eficiency and fairness partial assisting overall situation present consideration including future prospectthe ethic of economic operationmutual benefitbeing hardworking and economical fair competition obeying rules and cooperation being honest and trustworthythe ethic of economic contactaltruismbeing unselfishly devoted to others helping the poor and the weak relieving trouble and danger respecting the old and cherishing the youngFrom the diagram, we can find that:First, three new concepts are proposed according to the layers of economic activities, that is, the ethic of economic development . the ethic of economic operation and the ethic of economic contact , whose theoretical significance lies in constructing, extending and delineating new space of moral thinking and providing "net eyes" to the accuracy and ciearity of moral thinking and moral judging.Second, three new principles are refined from the corresponding new concepts, that is, the principle of collective interest, the principle of mutual benefit and the principle of altruism. The word "new" here does not mean new diction but mean the words corresponding with these three concepts assumed in special stipulations,which is reflected in the following aspects;1. The train of thoughts is new. The train of thought here refers to the one in theoretical construction. The principles in the diagram are not the repetition of the term collectivism, but "three pearls" whose theoretical starting point and main thread is "interest", a distinctive feature in economic field. The "three pearls", public interest", " mutual benefit' and "altruism", filled with collectivism and with it as their core, are...