试论商品经济与殷商经济伦理

Commodity Economy and Economic Ethis in Shang Dynasty

在崇尚祖先神、上帝等信仰的商代王国,祭祀活动是非常隆重和神圣的,参加典礼的人员一般来说地位都相当高,而商人可以直接参加商王的祭典,可见其在商代的威望是很高的。在殷商时期人们非常重视“利”,而“义”在甲骨金文和传世文献中根本未见记载。这表明,殷商是一个崇尚财富的时代,它追求经济利益的最大化,同时说明人们逐渐认识到发展商品经济的基本伦理要求。

The fete activity was ceremonious and inviolable in the kingdoms of Shang where the ancestry deity and omniscience were advocated. The people attended fiesta ceremony bore high status, and they could attended fiesta ceremony presided by the King. In Shang Dynasty people attached much importance to behoof. Morality and justice were not recorded at all in the inscriptions on tortoise shells and inscriptions on bronze, and the documents handed down from ancient times were not recorded at all. Those indicates that Shang Dynasty is an era pursuing fortunes. The people of Shang pursued economic benefit maximum, and it also illuminates people gradually took cognizance of essential ethic request.