The Influence Of Two Modern Philosophy Current Of Thoughts On The Western Economics Methodology

In the history of the human being, the relation between philosophy and economics is close and common, and the methodology acts as the bridge to connect them. Philosophy, as the essence of the time spirit, should pay close attention to economics and provide guidance in Weltanschauung and methodology for economics, otherwise the economics is not complete economics without the foundation of philosophy. It is the same as the philosophy. Economics should also provide abundant nutrition for philosophy and contribute to the formation of economic thoughts and economic theory by the economics methodology. The interaction and the penetration on the methodology level between philosophy and economics contribute to the mutual development of the two subjects.The scientific current of thought and the humanism of thought which appeared in the capitalist society in the middle of the 19th century laid a solid foundation for the formation and development of the west economics methodology and had extensive and deep influence on the new classical economics and modern west economics. The economics methodology has formed a whole battery of analytical framework and tool under the influence of scientific philosophy, which is characterized by logic positivism, negativism and historical materialism. The fundamental characteristics of the economics methodology are based on the axiomatization positive logic deductive method, which assumes the rational human being as its hypothetic premise. The most remarkable characteristic of the economics methodology is the general application of mathematics in economics and it is developing forward to the more accurate and magnificent system. This essay thinks the reason economics is called as "the pearl of the crown of the social science" ultimately come down to that economics implements more thoroughly the requirements of scientific philosophy on the methodology than any other social subjects. However all these will be impacted and challenged by the complexity, uncertainty and contingency in the modern economic world. Economics discusses the benefit relationship and it pays more attention to the discussion of human benefit relationship. Therefore economists should possess the human care and the necessary social responsibility. The famous economists in history all stick tomhis own economic philosophy and pay special attention to the morals. The humanism current of thoughts characterized by the humanism philosophy and the non-rational methodology find its response in the west mainstream and non-mainstream economic methodology and tend to affect the development of the west mainstream economic methodology. The regression of west philosophy to the lifeworld, the non-rationalization of the scientific philosophy and the upsurge of postmodernism lead to the interfusion of scientific philosophy and humanism philosophy, then further move the scientism unified method of the west economic methodology to polybasicity methodology, and make the economic methodology possess the rational positivism methodology as well as the humanism esprit and human care.Quite a lot of positivism research has proved that the two modern west philosophy current of thoughts show their strain in affecting the reform of economics paradigm in the aspects such as the positivism criticism and humanism criticism etc. Therefore, the author thinks the basic way to understand the economics methodology lies in studying the history of economics methodology by using the viewpoint, thought and method originating from philosophy. Based on the above opinion, the essay analyses the influence and function of two west philosophy current of thoughts梥cientism current of thought and humanism current of thought -on the formation and development of various west economic thoughts, theory and method. The essay combs the development history of economics methodology aroused by the development of the two west philosophy current of thoughts, absorbs and uses critically the research method system in the west economics to study the economic problems in Ch...