略论作为经济伦理的公平范畴

On Equity as a Category in Economic Ethics

作为经济伦理范畴的公平在经济生活中起着重要作用 ,则是近代市场经济的产物。它是调节人们在经济活动中的利益关系的杠杆 ,问题在于寻找适当的变数作为调节的伦理尺度。在市场经济与资本主义制度相结合的经济形态中 ,公平源于市场经济的内在规律 ,它是交换价值的理想化的表现。在市场经济与社会主义制度相结合的经济形态中 ,公平除了具有适应一般市场经济的共同特性之外 ,它归结为通过承认经济生活中富裕程度的差别 。

Equity as a category of economic ethics plays an important role in the economic life. That is the product of modern market economy. It functions as a lever adjusting different interest relations, however, there still remains the problem of finding suitable variables to measure the adjustment ethically. In the economic configuration combined by market economy and the capitalist system, equity originates from the internal law of market economy, and it represents the idealized exchange value. Yet, in the configuration made up of market economy and the socialist system, besides possessing the common features of market economy, equity takes common richness as its ideal through acknowledging different levels of richness in the economic life.