Tension Of Economy And Ethic

Having inferred to the domestic and aboard researches on economic ethics extensively and carefully, the author believes that the dimension of economy and ethic is an important perspective of study on economic ethics, however, it is neglected in the researching work. The explanation about the perspective is helpful to straighten out the turmoil in the research of economic ethics, and to set up the base of it.The essay expounds this perspective from different aspects. Firstly, it examines the related categories of economic ethic, specifies the range of economy, ethic, economic ethic, ethics economy and business ethics, explains the connotations of economy and ethic. Secondly, it respectively elaborates the various thoughts of economic ethics in the history, including the Classic Economics, Welfare Economics, Neo-Liberalism and Weber's theory. It shows the relation between economy and ethic in the theories of economics. Thirdly, according to the relationship between economy and ethic, it proposes the four categories of economic ethics?economic centralism, moral centralism, internal economy and external economy. It also straightens out the present situation of economic ethics research. Finally, based on the theories of the personification of material and the materialization of person, it proposes tension between ethic and economic. The mutual antinomy and support relations between ethic and economic form the tension of them. The mutual antinomy is embodied by the difference between ethic and economic including property and rule of there transform. And the mutual support is embodied by the dialectic and mutual character of ethic and economic.