The Controversy And Assessment Of The "Economic Man" And The "Moral Man" Problem

China's transformation of modernization charges and proves the deep thinking about the relation between the economic structural reform and moral concepts of value. The research of the economic ethic problem has brought out and flourished quickly with that. Early in 1987, Mr DongFangshu pointed out in his that the most importance of the research about the economic ethic is how to find the value identity between the economics (economic man) and ethics (moral man), and the inner unification between the profit purse and the moral perfect in the reform and transformation times. We think that admitting the divergence is the fundamental premise to the unification in the end. In the all, the thesis firstly researches the opposite between "economic man" and "moral man". Through systematic arranging, analyzing and summarizing two dimensions about the opposite problem between the "economic man" and the "moral man" after the reform and open, we reveal the present situation of the research about the "economic man" and the "moral man". And though researching and re-explaining the smith's puzzle and the concept of "economic man", we seek the relation between the "economic man" and the "moral man" further and open up the new dimension and direction in the economic ethic reach field. It's of theoretical significance and momentous current significance to establish the new moral system suit to the socialist market economy.The thesis contains 3 parts. The first part starts from the background characteristic of times that bring up the opposite problem between the "economic man" and the "moral man", and analyzes the advance progress of the theory reach about the "economic man" and the "moral man". Secondly, concretely arrange , analyzes and summarize two dimensions about the opposite problem between the "economic man" and the "moral man" after reform and open that is the opposite of the different fields (economic and moral / economics and ethics ) and the opposite of the different values , from understanding of the "economic man" and the "moral man"' concepts , smith's puzzle and unity . Finally, though researching and re-explaining the smith's puzzle and the concept of "economic man" ,propose the real of the "economic man" and the "moral man" problem that is to the tension relations between the "virtue theory" and the "principle-based normative ethics". That is to bring up the deep thought and inspiration about the business ethics.