On The Thought Of The Mencius Economic Ethics

Mengzi was born in the Warring States great disorder under heaven. This makes him a rich and deep understanding on the inside of the economic life of people in the Warring States period should have moral values. He uses people’s kindness to explain the goodness of human nature. Then he used human kind criticism Yang Zhu and Modi attention to the interests and despising righteousness. He also taught the ruling class how to implement the policy of benevolence, with benevolent government to promote and protect the norms of social and economic order. In order to find the reasonable pre Qin era of social and economic life in order, he in the goodness of human nature on the basis of construct unique characteristics of righteousness and benefit view, the good faith and fair view. He affirmed the people legitimate and accord with righteousness interests pursuit, also pointed out that the people in the way of righteousness to obtain the benefits of different levels. In view of integrity inside, his focus is individual moral belief and personal conduct speech. He wills also Confucius said, "Faith" to further develop, and emphasizes the importance of the true value of honesty and trustworthiness. In fairness, he pays attention to the substance or content sense of fairness. Therefore, he used “Field “and “Shi Lu” of the two basic economic system guide monarchs who introduced the economic policies of reform and innovation. His economic ethics thought has the unique spiritual character: first of all, his concept of justice and benefit has distinctive idealism; secondly, his honesty is the tendency of the fuzzy virtue ethics. Finally, his outlook of equity emphasis is a defector sense of fairness. The moral self-discipline of Mencius these economic ethics thoughts also a way of thinking of contemporary people to study the problem of economic ethics, the pursuit of economic interests of moral consciousness and economic life inside power users have a very important reference and inspiration.