The Modern Transformation Of Chinese Traditional Ethical Thoughts In Economy

Socialistic advanced culture contains inherently the socialistic advanced ethic one with Chinese characteristics. Not only does constructing the later need to face the facts of socialistic market economy, but also to unearth the headwaters of national ethic culture, and to establish socialistic system of ethic and morality on speaking terms with socialistic market economy, carrying on our national traditional virtues and harmonious with modern legal system and social criteria. Therefore it is full of theoretical and practical significance to inspect the modern transformation of Chinese traditional ethical thoughts in economy, and to unscramble the relationships between modern and contemporary economic ethic. To do these the all and the one, this thesis is established in the facts of constructing the economic ethic culture lying in socialistic market economy, and makes efforts in providing the economic ethic's type-change of socialistic market economy with mental resource and practical enlightenment.This text is made up of three parts: summarization, individual discussion and general comment. The summarization analyses the historical cause, course, mechanism, structure and forms of the modern transformation. It concludes: the transformation, which is divided into brewing and generating, climax and turnaround stages, is a natural and impersonal historical course caused by the combination of outside and inside factors; it is led by the change of rulers' interests in the brewing and generating stage, and by the ideological change in the climax and turnaround stages; its structure was uneven and imperfect; it shows itself a track of syllogism as a whole through the concrete forms of continuance, rupture, developing the useful and discarding the useless, etc.The individual discussion includes the modern transformation of theprincipia of economic ethic, the idea of root and tip, the idea of poorness and richness, and the idea of extravagancy and frugality. The principia of economic ethic that judged everything according to the right and wrong of morality had been attacked and animadverted on; the idea of national utilitarianism had sprung up and been established, and the one of seeking profits that one should try for himself just rights and interests had gradually risen high and been strengthened. The value tropism of "repressing the tip" and "humbling the businessman" had been denied at large; the value rationality to distribute and own riches according to feudal rank had been gotten rid of; traditional "dismissing extravagancy and esteeming frugality" had been flied at, and the viewpoint that consumption was rational or wholesome came into being while "dismissing extravagancy" of grading consumption ethic lost its significance, although "extravagancy" could not been built up as a kind of virtue.s In the general comment, Firstly, the transformation was to serve admitting and transplanting the new economic factors, modern commodity economy and industrialized production, and provided them with the support of value rationality of utility and ethic. Secondly, its turnaround and qualitative leap, which possessed - the connotation of ethical culture that moved toward socialistic market economy because of the phasic request of democratic revolution against imperialism and feudalism, came to be the important tache of ethical culture leading to the contemporary times, and had constructed a massy flat roof of value rationality for socialism. Thirdly, it began its prelude in the twin-variation of modern enlightening and saving the nation from extinction, changed therewith the twin-variation, serves as the key link between the past and the future of the Chinese thoughts and culture of economic ethic, and founds the economic ethic foundation of the type-change of Chinese society and economy in modern and contemporary times. Lastly, it...