A Brief Discussion On The Ethical Constraints And Limits Of Economic Behavior

"The economic man" is a theory that removes human's other essences or the non- essential attribute, and assumes that human is rational and selfish ------ only caring about own benefit in the economic activity and pursuing maximization of self- benefit. As a result of economic man's selfish characteristic, the extreme behavior of economic man signifies: "being slave of material"and "being the machine running for earning profit", these two kinds of performance could pose huge threat and injury to the development of the human civilization and the continuous development of social economy. Therefore, it is urgent to regulate person's economic activities and model the idea of social harmonious development. If economic man's behavior is not restrained in ethics, it will break the harmony between human and nature. So the molding of the social harmonious development is very important to reducing the intense and conflict of the relations between human and the nature, also to overcoming the developmental break.However under the condition of market economy, the one-sided economic activities are very popular, which extremely pursue "the profit maximization" and have caused huge harm to the human society and the natural world. Continuously and thoroughly analyzing, we can discover that all these unreasonable and indecent economic behaviors have deep value root. In order to effectively standard unreasonable economic activities, these value roots must be ethically examined. And ethical restraint carried on to economic man's behavior should be within certain limit.In the process of the development of socialism market economy, the economic man's behavior as a kind of economic phenomena has its objectivity and the rationality, this kind of rational concrete manifestation is that we must fully respect individual legitimate benefit. But for that, we can't deduce the economic man's behavior is the only reasonable behavior standard of social economic activity. On the contrary, we should embark from the objective request of the socialized big production and socialist economy development to surmount the limitation of the economic man behavior. Therefore, in socialist market economy, the economic man behavior is only one economic phenomenon, and can't become the basic guidance of the economic activity. Therefore economic man's behavior should be carried on in ethical restraint, and we should give certain limitation to the ethical restrain for the economic man.This article mainly expounds why we pose ethical restriction to economic man and how to, and the limitation of ethical restraint for economic mane the .The whole article...