An Analysis Of Human Nature And The Institution

"The human nature" is a question about beginning source that the human closely examines to oneself, its status may not be looked down upon in the philosophy, many questions cannot be explained and deduced without it, certainly, the question of "institution" that is paid attention to in the present Sphere of academic is also inevitably related with the human nature. And the practice of reform and open activities in our country proved that, the institution of the socialist market economy had more superiority ,and can promote the development of productive forces and human better than that of the traditional planned economy , the reason is , in which looked from the angle of the relationship between human nature and the institution, the institution of the socialist market economy has solved the relationship between the human nature and the institution even better.In fact, the thought about the relationship between human nature and institution in thinking history is well-established, although thinkers in each time, each discipline domain has not proposed "the human nature and the institution" explicitly, the thought of "the human nature and the institution" is contained in their all theories. For example, in the sphere of politics, Hobbes thought that the institution was stem from People's protecting self-benefit; in the sphere of economics, Adam · smith constructed the institution of economy with regarded the nature of human's self-interest as the premise, and Veblen, the founder of Institutionalism thought that the institution origined from the human's instinct; But in the philosophic domain, from the French materialism in18th century to Hegel, the Marxist, had all related the thought of "the human nature and the institution" .This paper reorganizes and summaries the predecessors' thoughts about the relationship between the human nature and the institution, in order to profit from predecessor's research results and establish the beginning theory for us, by inspecting the research about the relationship of "the human nature and the institution" in thinking history. The author Analyses the Conceptions of "the human nature" , "the institution" , and Proofs the intrinsic connection and the dynamic relationship between the human nature and the institution with the method of historical materialism. The author believes that, the interaction between the human nature as the characteristics of the main body of institution and the institution Marches on the practice foundation. The human nature which forms in certain social practice and the institutional environments, turn around, plays certain influence role to the institution through human's practice, at the same time, the institution which forms under historical activities, affects people's activities and the human nature. The paper finally elaborates the practical significance of the relationship of "the human nature and the institution" , and proposes the overall devise of institution's construction and the institution's innovation in our country's present stage through relating realities. Thus, let the theory serve the realistic institution's construction and the development of human nature practically.