Ethical Beliefs And Economic Ethics

Since the rise of business ethics movement, in theory, through the conversation between economics and ethics, business ethics gradually establish its foundation; In practice, through combining with the business operations, and it gradually establish a variety of co-promote ethical business practices required methodology. But in the normative economics, we can also find ideas that economic activity associated with ethics. Comparing with this normative economics, what’s the uniqueness of business ethics? Perhaps economics doesn’t include the methodology that promoting ethical business practices, but these methods are not outside of economics logic, in which just looks these methods as means to pursuit the economic profit, which relieved the ethical meaning of these methods. To prove business ethics is different from economics, it must provide a reason for having "ethical surplus" in the logic of economics, that can not be resolved in the logic of economics and having obvious ethical reasons characteristics.But it will be in avail, if only depending on the economics logic. According to the current understanding of the economic process, the inherent economics logic and ethics have a natural separation. It can’t be succeed that business ethics trys to establish contact between the ethical values and economic facts, which can only find "objective reasonableness" rather than "inevitable reasonableness" in logical. It’s not only because logically split between facts and values early getting confirmed in Metaethics, but also it’s easy to be falsified that ethical requirements will be easier to achieve economic goals. Only changing the understanding of the economic process, we can reach the unity of the relationship between economy and ethics in logic.This need us to make the economic process into all of our goals in life. To carry out such an overall observation, we need for a comprehensive reflection of life, need to confirm the moral responsibility for the meaning of life. We find the new understanding of the economic process and "ethical surplus" in the ethics faith. The new understanding of the economic process is that economic process is one aspect of our life ethics practice basically, and there isn’t a independent economic process out of our life ethics practice; The "surplus" is the virtue to economic actors, that is, economic activity in morality isn’t only means the implementation of the economic activity, more important is the moral quality has been improved economic actors in the economy. Therefore, the key to the establishment of business ethics isn’t to tell people how to do morally in economy, bue to make people to believe that they need do morally in economy, which rely on guiding people on the faith of "good" life; And the new understanding of the economic process also requires attention to personal virtue in economic activity.In this paper, North’s institutional change theory is the starting point. Firstly, because his theory focus on ethical norms, and expressed a certain link between ethics and economy. But he just points out the ethics in shaping institutional changes playing an important role, while ignoring the ethical pursue in the institution change. But his focus on "faith" has also hit the nail on the relationship between economy and ethics. The second is due to the establishment of system problems or changes are China’s current hot issues facing society, and research on institutional change North issues have a very big impact in the contemporary. In the structure arrangement, firstly, this article is based on North’s institutional change theory, pointing out it is impossible to reach a necessary connection between economy and ethics logically in the current understanding of economic processes; Next is to clarify the key of the relevance between the economic and ethics, which is the "belief" of ethics; Finally, it returns to the institutional change problem. It’s an urgent work to establish a comprehensive system in the process of building the market system, but we must be alert to the system of superstition.It’s turely reliable that reliable people perform reliable system, and it’s more important to make people themselves "good". Therefore promoting economic activities in the cultivation of personal virtues deserve more attention and consideration.