Ethics Thought And Dilemma Of Pareto Optimality

Pareto efficiency can play an active role in the thinking of optimum in ethics from the optimal orientation in economics. Based on the ethics origin of Pareto optimality and its moral basis, the meaning of efficiency is being completed, and practical game approaches and models make it possible to combine ethics optimality and economics optimality. However, owing to the theoretical defects of Pareto optimality, including the limitation of utilitarianism, which serves as its philosophical basis, inconsistency of individual and collective rationality, conflicts of preference, etc. All of those makes Pareto optimality abstract and fabricated so that the seeking of the essence of optimum becomes the evidence of rationality for inequality, and results in Pareto optimality’s being a Utopian imagination. Still, it shouldn’t be rejected. To surpass theoretical Pareto optimality virtually can effectively help the individual in the game society to coordinate with self-discipline so that the optimal result of the unity of economics and ethics, expected by Pareto optimality, can be realized. The theoretical value of Pareto optimality has a profound inspirational function for China’s economic development and morality construction at the present stage. By surpassing Pareto optimality, it will help to realize the common prosperity and unity of all the ethnic groups.