Research Of Justice And Benefit In The Modern Times

The problems that ethics should solve are plenty and complex, but the most basic one is the relation between morality and benefit. The benefit is the deepest root and impetus of any social activity of people. If we investigate social phenomena regardless of benefit, we couldn' t grasp its essence. Though very important, benefit needs restraining and guiding of justice. Being a kind of directions of morality value, justice can embodyand safeguard the innate character that supports mankind. In a word, the relation between justice and benefit is dialectical unity of opposite.Justice and benefit have become a changeful problem because of their social importance. Chinese antiquity and the west both have had heated arguments about the relation between justice and benefit and formed systematic theories, but in the market economy conditions, the outlook on justice and benefit has appeared new traits with continuous development. In the economy conditions, how to set out a right socialist outlook on justice and benefit is a cortical and realistic problem, which needs to be settled with correct theories.When most of scholars analyze and appraise Chinese ancient outlook on justice and benefit and the modern utilitarianism of the west, they always synthesize economics, philosophy and ethics to research into rational theories by means of combining the outlook on truth or value with the historical materialism. On the base of research, they visualize the modern outlook on justice and benefit, but they only focus on the duty that individual should carry out for government without doing the opposite study,so the research on the tow-sided relation between justice and benefit need strengthening. The author rightly does the study and expects to bring out new ideas.This article is made up of three aspects:Firstly, put the outlook on justice and benefit in its historical order and take advantage of itIt is extremely rich in Chinese ancient thoughts of justice and benefit, especial the outlook on justice and benefit of Confucianism. From ChunQiuZhanGuo to MingQing, it is the outlook on justice and benefit of Confucianism that firmly established own social leading status by competition. Although lashed by Five Four Movement, its effects on Chinese society still exist. Led by Mao Ze Dong, the Chinese Communist Party has established moral object of serving the masses and are developing and perfecting continuously the socialist outlook on justice and benefit by reforming the outlook on justice and benefit of Confucianism.Secondly, analysis of conflict between justice and benefit in the new periodWith the social market economy developing deeply, the concept of justice and benefit has many new traits. Not only the scope and field of benefit have enlarged, but also justice has had a lot of new duties and demands, which is the base of the new conflicts of justice and benefit on. In the practical life, the conflicts between justice and benefit of individual and government are varied, such as, the conflict of the whole interests to sectional interests, the conflicts on taxes, smuggling and so on. The problems have a lot to do with individual and government. The main reasons lie in three aspects: First, market economy has made people seek after benefits on their own initiative and made main body of benefit become many-faceted, which has made social morality have much more difficulty in directing direction. Second, the flaws in systems of government have supplied entrance for encroaching on individual benefits and gaining individual illegal benefit. Third,Chinese ancient senses of " Advocating the whole interests and individual duties" still affect people activities.Thirdly, coordinate the conflicts of individual to government Coordinating the conflicts, we should face the fact, know correctly concepts of individual benefit and country benefit and persist in socialist outlook on justice and benefit rather than make justice and benefit disappear or evade them. By the leadership of the socialist outlook on justice...