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Ethics: Social Resources And Construction Of Moral System

Posted on:2004-01-04Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L Q WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360095462479Subject:Marxist philosophy
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Without ethical support, any social and economic system cannot develop normally and soundly. Each kind of economic development has its own ethic motivation. Certain ethical thoughts and moral spirit not only provide economic development and social movement with value efficiency and engine but also cultivate rational order and humane environment for then, Social development is to achieve common prosperity of economy and morality. Only this way, Can we human achieve our goal and realize our overall development. As for this point, it is necessary for social sound development to improve ethic level, and it is an urgent task of social development to cultivate lofty ethic level and ethical civilization. The more advanced the society is ,the higher standard morality and credit it requires, and the awareness of ethics and credit becomes higher ,as a result, the cost of social operation is someller.Therefore,ethics is not only a social standard but also a social resources which is inexhaustible and can be renovated on and on.In the era of knowledge economy, the concept of ethics should be renovated because in the past ethics is regarded as the core of human spirit and far from economy. Virtually, ethics is also a kind of productivity and intangible capital, which we cannot make sense of above productivity. Just like material, monetary and human capital, scientific ethics has the feature of capital and is significant to society and economy. Under the background of knowledge economy, ethics is also a system of knowledge, a kind of human force and a kind of knowledge which need be mastered through practice and can ca be used to change and build human society. Therefore, ethic knowledge should be integrated into the whole society to promote economic operation and social development. Nowadays, our economic institution has entered such an era in which we must emphasize and depend on ethics. Ethics is not only an external restricting factor of economic development but also a kin of economic development and a necessary internal factor of internal economic system. Meanwhile, it is involved in economic activities together with capital, land and information. Under the background of market economy, ethical belief, ethical solicitude and ethical norm is helpful to reduce transaction cost, moral hazard and advance economic development and social progress. Therefore, morality should becultivated and exploited as social resources.Just as Max Weber said, ethics is a kind of supportive resource to social political and economic development. One of the basic aim of market economy is to allocate social resources rationally and achieve the best economic benefit. However, rational allocation of social resources should the full play to tangible material resources and intangible ethical resources. As a kind of special social resources, ethic plays a role incomparable to that of material resources in the healthy development of society and sound operation of economy.In the present system -transforming china, as the system of socialist market economy is still imperfect, Credit and ethic resources, which consist of fairness, justice and honesty is destroyed seriously, as a result, ethics has become rather a rare resource. In order to construct a favorable social atmosphere, we must cultivate, exploit and proper make use of this kind of regenerative and reusable socialresources--ethic. We should also normalize and institutionalize moralityeffectively. At the same time we must make human-and-ethic relationship and mode of ethic activity civilized and normalized to form certain institutive social ethic standard system and give full play to special effect of ethic and constructing ethic system is one of the effective way of exploiting and cultivating ethic resource. And it is also the key point and breakthrough of present social ethic construction in our country. It is known to all that not all the means are perfect and ethic institutionalization has its own drawbacks. Therefore, we must combine ethic and law-and-regulation sy...
Keywords/Search Tags:Ethic, Social Resource, Ethical Capital, Ethic Institutionalization
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