中外传统财富观比较研究——以先秦儒家和早期犹太财富思想为例

A Comparison of WealthThoughts between Pre-Qin Confucianism and Early Judaism

从财富认知观、财富追求观、财富分配观三个角度出发,揭示先秦儒家和早期犹太财富思想的异同。儒家和犹太先哲们都肯定了财富的重要意义,为规范人们追求财富和使用财富提供了具体价值和评判标准,都倡导追求财富的正当性和分配财富的合理性。不同之处体现在儒家财富思想根植于伦理人性的道德传统,讲求内在道德超越;犹太民族的财富思想是根植于上帝神性的财富伦理,获得更多外部规范和约束。

The pre-Qin Confucianists and the early Jewish sages had a profound discussion on the issue of wealth,and their wealth thoughts are parts of the long river of Chinese and Western civilization.This paper reveals the similarities and differences of wealth thoughts between Confucianism in pre-Qin period and Judaism in the early days from perspectives of wealth cognition,wealth pursuit and wealth distribution.Both Confucian and Jewish sages affirmed the importance of wealth,provided specific values and criteria for regulating people's pursuit and use of wealth,and advocated the legitimacy of wealth pursuit and the rationality of wealth distribution.The difference lies in the fact that Confucian wealth thought is rooted in the moral tradition of ethical humanity and stresses the internal moral transcendence,while Jewish wealth thought is rooted in God's divinity with more external norms and constraints.