中西财富观与慈善伦理

Chinese and Western Views of Property and ethics of Charity

中国的慈善事业、慈善伦理观乃至构建慈善伦理价值观体系都与财富观有着密切的关系。揭示中西财富观的异同,通过源远流长的文化传统去寻求启示和方法不失为是一种历史唯物主义的方法和路径。从信仰、礼法和思维模式三个维度的比较剖析中西财富观的异同,考察中西慈善伦理观的传统渊源,即亲疏之爱与平等之爱的文化来源、自律与他律的伦理动因、根植于伦理之人性的仁的道德传统与本源于上帝之神性的基督之爱,并藉此可通过两个原则与三个关注来尝试性地构建慈善伦理价值观体系。

Chinese cause,ethics of charity,and ideological system of ethics of charity are all closely related with Chinese view of property.An efficient approach and means of historical materialism is to reveal differences between Chinese and western views of property in terms of long-standing cultural traditions so as to seek some inspiration and methodology.This paper analyzes similarities and differences between Chinese and western views of property through a comparison in worship,canons of manners and mode of thinking,and investigates the respective traditional origins of Chinese and western views of property,including cultural sources of family love and equality love,psychological motivation for autonomy and heteronomy and Chinese benevolence derived from ethics of human character and Christian love originated from God＇s divinity.It attempts to develop ideological system of charity ethics by the two principles and three concerns.