The Ethics Interpretation Of Lisi Utilitarian Thinking

Lisi assisted Emperor Qin to establish a unified empire, instituted and implemented a series of reform for the political, economic, military and cultural fields after Qin's unification,thus open up a historic new situation for China. It can be seen from Lisi's political achievement that Utilitarian thinking is the main value support of his working.How to evaluate Lisi's Utilitarian thinking from the aspect of value? The basic underpinning depend on the good and evil evaluation standards supported by value system. Lisi's Utilitarian value reflects new morality based on Legalist's Theroy, that is, taking the"Utilitarian"as moral standard, the"Law"as mean of govern the world and the"Country"as absolute authority, we can interpret the moral behavior as an action of safeguarding the national interest. Compared to the moral advocated by patriarchal ethics of Zhou dynasty,the new value abandon human relations'morality established on clan and consanguinity, develop a state-based ethics norm; Compared to the moral advocated by Confucian ethics, the new value weaken the inner mind nurturance of moral, strengthen the moral's external normal.It's undoubted that the value system constructed by Lisi and Qin dynasty has historic advancement from the course of history. At the same time, the construction of the new value, will help us broaden the scope of moral, thus the deep consideration of present moral construction initiated by two stages: On the one hand, profit is the inner driving force of Utilitarian, then the question is derived from it how to look upon the collective interests and personal interests; On the other hand, the realization of Utilitarian need balance for external standardization, accordingly the question is derived from it how to organic unify soft constraint and external standardization of moral, thereby strengthening its function about social cultivation.