伦理学说对经济发展的影响——新教伦理与中国传统儒家伦理的比较研究

新教伦理学说和传统儒家伦理学说分别对经济的发展产生正面和负面的影响。这是由两种学说的不同之处引起的。从二者如何处理义与利的关系的角度来看,尽管二者都以＂义＂为中心,但是新教伦理巧妙地处理义与利的关系,使得获利合法化,从而促进经济发展;中国传统儒家伦理则狭隘地处理义与利的关系,阻碍了经济发展。从二者如何理解＂自制＂概念的角度来看,新教伦理的＂自制＂保证了客观效果———经济发展的实现;传统儒家伦理的＂自制＂进一步强化了它对于经济发展的阻碍作用。

The Impacts of Ethical Theories on Economic Development: From the Perspective of the Comparison of the Protestant ethic and Chinese Traditional Confucian ethics

The Protestant Ethics and the traditional Confucian ethics separately have the positive and negative impacts on the economic development. This is caused by the differences between the two ethical theories. From the viewpoint of how they deal with the relationship between moral and benefits, even though they both took ＂moral＂ as the center, the Protestant Ethic skillfully deal with the relation between moral and benefits, so as to legalize the benefits and promote the economic development. While Chinese traditional Confucian had a parochial concept with ethics, so they impeded the economic development. From the viewpoint of how they understood ＂self-control＂, ＂self-control＂ in the Protestant Ethic made the economic development into reality; while ＂self-control＂ in the traditional Confucian ethics further strengthened its role in hindering economic development.