Economic Analysis Of Theory Of Human Nature Of The Pre-Qin's Legalists

Humanity and its good and evil is one of the core issues in the history of Chinese thought, but also an eternal regular new subject. Utilize traditional resources to build morals and law in market economy, must explore the transition of explains mode for China's traditional ethics: from the Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism to the Mohism, XunZi's, HanFei's, and takes interests as the starting point of ethical research. At present, it is disputting on the property question of the theory of human nature of Legalists.There are a lot of consistency on which, the observation of the human nature of Legalists and the method of economic analysis for ethics question. For these considerations, I think it is necessary to further analyses for the theory of human nature of Legalists. Therefore, this text analyses the theory of human nature of Legalist school from economic way, elaborate on the basis of consistency of the ethical norms and economic principles.This thesis includes five chapters in all. Chapter one is the insertion part herein. Mainly explain the complexity of humanity and its good and evil, reasons for the selection of subjects, methods of analysis and thesis's structureChapter two is the foundation of setting views for this thesis. Mainly at the foundation of discussing humanity, good, evil, the goodness of human nature, the doctrine of evil human nature, etc concept in history, then propose the viewpoint of human nature herein. Humanity is that human attribute, all attribute that all people have, includes natural attributes and social attributes. Human nature is the same universal humanity, the changing is the specific content and form of humanity. It is a human eternal needs, human nature, human attribute, which to meet the needs of natural desire, to pursuite the needs of rational ability, to meet the needs of moral character life. The needs are the most high essence of human, humanity, human's nature. No distinction between good and evil in human nature, social influence makes people acquired a good or evil characters , but humanity is fierce in reality.Chapter three discriminate the theory of human nature of Legalists, it is the prerequisite of economic analysis for the theory of human nature of Legalists. First, on the basis of analyzing two opposing views for the theory of human nature of Legalists, then points out that the theory of human nature of Legalists is not the theory of evil of humanity, but also the doctrine of evil human nature, but the theory of egoistic human nature of self-serving benefits for its own. One of reasons: egoistic nature can leads to...