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Market Economy and Morality Reconstruction

Ming Lei

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The moral theory, suited to the development of market economy, should not only have the foundation of market economy, but also provide the foundation of the deep social psychology for people's moral restraint. Morality is the standard of value, the practical activities of accomplishing the moral value and the man made law of human interests' will. On one hand, market economy contains the foundation of people's forming morality. On the other hand,market economy supplies conditions for people to perfect morality. We should seek the bearing relation of morality and market economy from their connotations and motions, and illustrate that interests are realistic support of the unity of morality and market economy. That real collective morality, which emphasized developing reasonable personal interests fully on the basis of the collective interests being realized, should be the basic direction and content of morality reconstruction on the condition of market economy.

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The moral theory, suited to the development of market economy, should not only have the foundation of market economy, but also provide the foundation of the deep social psychology for people's moral restraint. Morality is the standard of value, the practical activities of accomplishing the moral value and the man made law of human interests' will. On one hand, market economy contains the foundation of people's forming morality. On the other hand,market economy supplies conditions for people to perfect morality. We should seek the bearing relation of morality and market economy from their connotations and motions, and illustrate that interests are realistic support of the unity of morality and market economy. That real collective morality, which emphasized developing reasonable personal interests fully on the basis of the collective interests being realized, should be the basic direction and content of morality reconstruction on the condition of market economy.

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The moral theory, suited to the development of market economy, should not only have the foundation of market economy, but also provide the foundation of the deep social psychology for people's moral restraint. Morality is the standard of value, the practical activities of accomplishing the moral value and the man made law of human interests' will. On one hand, market economy contains the foundation of people's forming morality. On the other hand,market economy supplies conditions for people to perfect morality. We should seek the bearing relation of morality and market economy from their connotations and motions, and illustrate that interests are realistic support of the unity of morality and market economy. That real collective morality, which emphasized developing reasonable personal interests fully on the basis of the collective interests being realized, should be the basic direction and content of morality reconstruction on the condition of market economy.

Key concepts: Morality, Value (mathematics), Foundation (evidence), Economics, Economic system, Market economy, Law and economics, Law

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