李贽经济伦理观简析

An Analysis of Li Zhi′s Economic Ethics

自秦汉数千年以来,中国自给自足的自然经济发展模式在明朝发生了很多新的变化。随着人们"本末"观念的更新,商品意识增强,商业性农业获得了空前的发展,商业日趋繁荣,在这种大的社会环境和风气的影响下,人们逐渐抛弃了陈旧的儒家"重义轻利"价值观,不再耻于谈利,反而以发家致富作为自己追求的目标,很多久试不第的"士子"们转而走向"弃文从商"的道路。在伦理思想界,李贽认为对基本生活标准的追求是人无从指责的正常需要。他对人的欲望和私心都给予了极大的肯定,因这些观点适应了逐渐崛起的市民阶层的心理需求,得到广泛传播,在社会上形成极大的理论影响。

Great changes took place in China＇s self-sufficient natural economy development mode in the Ming dynasty. As people renewed their concept of ＂Cart and Horse＂and raised their aware- ness of commodities, commercial agriculture achieved unprecedented development. In this kind of social environment, people gradually abandoned old Confucian value of ＂Justice above Material Gains＂,and regarded fortune as their goals. Consequently, a number of literati who failed nation- al tests for many times turned to do business. Li Zhi believed that people＇s pursuit of the basic standard of living is normal and held a positive attitudc towards human desire and selfish mo- tives. Those views met the psychological needs of gradually rising town folks so that they was widely spread and exerted a great theoretical influence on the society.