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On Ancient-Greece Economic Ethics Thoughts

Posted on:2010-02-16Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y M ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360278479803Subject:Foreign philosophy
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Economic, political fit ethics is one of the important features of the development of western economic thoughts, so, it need to communicate the three on ancient Greece economic ethics thought's research. This thesis center the personality, thread the development of thought skeleton, take the problem of economic ethics as section, emphasize the impact of economic ethics thought from social, political, economic, culture in that epoch, tidy up the history track of the development of ethics cognize in economic life of main thinkers, post the essence, rule and character of humanistic interknit between economic and ethics, according to the constantly deduction and deepen character between the reverberate and alternate in humanistic and virtue of ancient Greece economic ethics thought , seek the component and dimensionality of ancient Greece economic ethics thought tally with Chinese practice, open out its important value as theoretical source of economic ethics thought, accordingly post its revelation of the time. From the content, this article will divide the ancient Greece ethics thought into four parts:"Concept of Wealth","On the Division of Labor","Concept of Happiness"and"Concept of Justice". The paper will be gradually surrendered around ancient Greece economic ethics characteristics of humanistic and virtue. In conclusion, analyses the ethical thought of the ancient Greece economic, it should impact on the basic characteristics of China's economic construction and study ethics theory and practical significance.Introduction: The paper stressed the important position of the ancient Greece economic ethics thought; a synthesis of this thesis research ideas, research purposes, and relevant research at home and abroad; on the concept of economic ethics to resolve.The first chapter, "Ancient Greece Economic Ethics Overview": Based on the study of seeing about ancient Greece economic life, make general compendia to ancient Greece economic ethics thought.Chapter II "Concept of Wealth": The problem of wealth is a key issue to research economic ethics. In this issue, during ancient Greece, the economic ethics research is regarded human needs as the main evaluation and measurement scale. From wealth occupies of Homer times to the market and economy of Hesiod; from the wealth justness of Solon to the main body's wealth needs of Xenophon; from Plato's utopian property shared to Aristotle's emphasis on property natural proliferation. They are fully reflected ideological content–"man is the measure of all things"during the ancient Greece.Chapter III "On the Division of Labor": During the ancient Greece, people attached importance to the characteristics of people's physical and mental development in the issue of division. It revealed the division of labor between the brain and body in Homer's epic; Plato differences the position of the division of labor from human differences between grades. Aristotle expatiated on the perspective of natural justice on its division of labor from the point of view of the common interests.Chapter IV: "Concept of Happiness": During the ancient Greek, forerunners placed emphasis on advocacy of human development as the core concept of happiness. Xenophon's happiness concept was based on agriculture and virtue; Plato tried to start from ideal Community to achieve the class of the amendment so as to reach the happiness of freedom; Aristotle stressed on fitting the good of the virtue and revealed how to reach happiness in economic lives from the highest good; from the purpose of survival, Epicurus discoursed upon how to reach happiness of life through peace and security.Chapter V: "Concept of Justice": During the ancient Greece, the sages adhered to regard humanistic and virtue as the starting point of the study on justice. Pythagoras maintains his habit of amount, at the same time it was revealed to us the economic life's co-exist, and helped us achieve good and harmony; Democritus elucidated his perspective of fairness and mutual help from the view point of compatriots. Xenophon appalled to give foreign businessmen to share the treatment as native citizens from the view point of a fair trade; Plato fantasized through the construction of the harmonious society in order to achieve the rule of justice; Aristotle discussed the doctrine of the mean through the use of the ratio of the geometric principles, and brought forward reaching distributives justice,compensatory justice and exchanging justice.Chapter VI:"Contemporary Inspiration of Ancient Greece Economic Ethics Thoughts ": The main features of economic ethics thought during this period embody these aspects: the care of humanistic, standpoints of virtue and intuitive simplicity. It will have a very important significance to contemporary theory and practice.
Keywords/Search Tags:Ancient-Greece, humanistic, virtue, economic ethics
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