Your Righteousness Cheap Thinking Of The History Of China

Advocating justice but depreciating benefits, regarding agriculture but restraining commerce and excluding luxury but upholding frugality are three doctrines of traditional economic thoughts in ancient China. The predominate economic thoughts with three prominent doctrines mentioned above influenced Chinese history for such a long time-from BC 81 to great shock of Chinese intellectual group suffered from the western thoughts after the Opium War. The theory of advocating justice but depreciating benefit acted as a primary statement in the whole ideological system, while the latter two were its derivatives, and its concrete reflection in national policies and moral standards.The controversy between justice and benefits is an everlasting topic in China's economic, cultural and ideological history, which belongs to the field of economics and ethics and the field of culture as well. In this sense, the theory of the justice and benefits is not only the relationship between the principal-economic benefits and the subordinate moral rules, but part of Chinese culture. As a matter of fact, the birth and the development of the theory is closely related the body of Chinese culture-Confucianism. In China's long history of feudal society, the theory became an important standard for ruling class's economic policy in the light of its official background and regarding agriculture but restraining commerce was even the basic state policy for all feudal dynasties. While maintaining its mainstream status, this theory also exerted its reverse influence upon the social and cultural development and the system transfer positively and negatively.But "inertia" of the theory of advocating justice but depreciating benefit, which is hindrance to social economic development, does not exist at the beginning. As any other kind of theory thought, the theory of advocating justice but depreciating benefit has it's own origin, background and developing track too. There are certain historical conditions and periods to transform negatively or positively in social development and intellectual area. Correct judgments to the theory of advocatingjustice but depreciating benefit are not scarce in history, like Sima Qian, Li Gou, Su Xun and Ye Shi, etc. But under shade of the feudal orthodox, they has not been receiver enough attention, disappearing silently at last. Even the gun's roar of the Opium War shed off the signboards of China's feudal society, bringing the shock of the western civilization to Chinese intellectual group, the theory of advocating justice but depreciating benefit has not withdrawn from the historical stage completely. Even to nowadays, that old melody still echoes frequently on the side of our ears, with some more ear-piercing notes only - Moral-absentness, materialism and the prevailing of hedonism.It is an age full of challenges and opportunities as well, awaking national rejuvenation and the reestablishment of a new and sound view on the justice and benefits, which should not be labeled by the traditional culture and even worse, nihilism dumping favorable tradition. The process should involve the adoption of the traditional incentive factors and the transformation of spiritual system that benefits the social stability and facilitates the harmonious relationship between and individuals and collectives.Through the analysis of the view of advocating justice but depreciating benefit, the dissertation focuses on such a statement: in the transitional process to market economy system and in the road to establish Chinese-based economics, some traditionally and historically critical views should not be neglected but on the contrary, should be given proper priority to, because social progress is based on economic development, while economic development lies essentially in cultural development, which is essentially the national maturation of spirits.