论道德规范对社会资本的价值

On the Ethic Value of Social Capital

福山认为,社会资本对社会的和谐稳定发展至关重要,而社会资本就是社会群体成员要共同遵守的价值观或准则,这种共有的价值观就是诚实、守信、互惠、尽义务和责任,其中信任是社会资本的核心要素。产生社会资本的这些价值观其本质就是传统的道德规范,可见,道德规范和社会资本密不可分。道德规范本质上即"人德规范",因此,社会资本的产生和发展离不开人的道德性,也离不开道德主义信任和互惠等道德规范,这不仅是社会资本存在的基础,也有利于社会资本的积极发展。

Fukuyama believes that social capital is crucial to social harmony and stability, and social capital is the values and norms abide by every social member. The shared values are honest, trustworthy, mutually beneficial, fulfilling their obligations and responsibilities, in which trust is the core element of social capital. The generation of these social capital values essentially springs from the traditional ethics. Thus, ethics and social capital are inextricably linked. Ethics is essentially ' human's moral norms'. Therefore, the emergence and development of social capital can not be separate from human morality as well as the moral norms of moralistic trust and mutual benefit, which is not only basis of social capital, but also conductive to the positive development of social capital.