礼物与共同善：一种中国的和经济伦理学的观点

The Gift and the Common Good: A Chinese and Business Ethics Perspective

讨论“礼物和共同善”这一主题,有助于从一个新的或者说被忽略的视角来反思中国文化及其面临的问题,同时也有助于深化目前的经济伦理学研究。本文首先从语义学和社会背景出发来探讨礼物和共同善在中国的理解及其问题,然后从当代中国社会面临的挑战这一视角来考察礼物社会在今日中国的可能和问题。中国古代的礼治社会在为世界作出独特的文化贡献的同时,也忽略了孔子当年提出的发展可能性,因此在强调市场经济嵌入文明社会的今天,应记取这一教训,如何重视细小事件中包含的新的社会发展可能性,是值得深思和研究的一个重要问题。

The theme of the gift and the common good offers an opportunity to reflect on our culture and its problems from a new or neglected perspective,and to deepen the current research on business ethics as well.This paper divided two parts is trying,firstly,to explore the theme from Chinese etymology and social background,and then to discuss the possibility and problems of a gift society in today’s China.The author’s basic view is that,as a former advanced gift society,Chinese rule of propriety society made a unique cultural contribution to the world,but at the same time,from the beginning ignored the bud of a new development showed by Confucius.The author proposes that,when today argued by the business ethics scholars that the market economy should be embedded in the civilized society,we may need to pay more attention to our lesson and value a possibility that a new social development may be contained in those small events.