Chonin And Confucian Ethical Thought Of The Comparison

Japan's Tokugawa shogunate period businessmen and the 17th century in China Confucian ethics with businessmen of the times are similar, its ethics are showing a great deal of difference. reflected in the 17th century after the Sino-Japanese Confucian ethics of their business thinking of the impact. Conditions and because of the differences in ways of thinking, and businessmen and the city Ethics have different characteristics. This paper linked Japan's Tokugawa shogunate period businessmen and Confucianism two different ethical thinking of the social background and subjective reasons to find the"Domain Correlation", from the values and moral consciousness, and other aspects of Confucianism and the city Ethics comparison.Values, the Japanese people have Japan's Tokugawa shogunate period businessmen typical utilitarian characteristic, in the course of doing business Chonin money for the"respect of all things"that the world is no more important than the money. Benefit to understand kamimachi think that the"meaning that the benefits""Lee is just"extreme stress"profits"to confuse the importance of traditional justice and benefit limits. Chinese Confucianism and the values were not as Japan's Tokugawa shogunate period businessmen as important as money, but just then taken from the viewpoint in the concept of justice and benefit to promote respect"to take advantage of justice"in order to achieve the ideal of"justice and benefit balance."In the moral sense, Japan's Tokugawa shogunate period businessmen not only to"faith"and"thrifty"business as a basic principle for profit, but it rose to social ethics and social responsibility issues. Confucianism and the"integrity"and"thrifty"the understanding and awareness of the business is limited to the exploitation process, only"good faith"and"thrifty"as the class of a moral requirement, it does not rise to the level of social responsibility.With the Confucian Cultural Circle of China and Japan, at times similar to the class has formed different characteristics of Ethics. By comparison, we can see their ethical thinking of the similarities and differences reflected from the Sino-Japanese thinkers faced similar issues in the way of thinking.