中国近代商会伦理道德思想管窥--以天津商会和苏州商会为中心

中国近代商会乃中西文化冲撞与融合过程中催生的新式行业性组织,其形成、发展本身蕴涵着对传统落后伦理道德思想的清算。在近代伦理道德重构中,商会志士围绕在价值取向上追求爱国与利益统一;在思想内涵上致力于中西伦理道德结合;在具体规范上崇尚自由平等、权利义务、竞争、团结平等,在理想人格上努力塑造近代经济人格,并积极社会实践,推动了中国传统伦理道德的近代化。

Ethical and Moral Ideology of Modern Chinese Chambers of Commerce--A limited view centered around Tianjin and Suzhou Chambers of Commerce

Modern Chinese chambers of commerce are new trade organizations expedited in the course of collision and fusion between Chinese and Western cultures. Its formation and development connote the exposure and criticism of the conventional backward ideology of ethics and morals. In restructuring modern ethics and morals, lofty-idealed commerce chamber people seek for the unity of patriotism and interest in value orientation, and the combination of Chinese and Western ethics and morals in ideological connotation. They advocate freedom, equality, duty, obligation, honesty, justice, competition and unity in practical norms, and strive to build modern economic personality and resort actively to social practice, pushing forward the modernization of traditional Chinese ethics and morals.