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Briefly describe the advantages and disadvantages of the traditional Confucian concept of justice and benefit?

On the basis of the opposition between justice and benefit, "emphasizing" non-utilitarian justice and "ignoring" non-moral benefit are the ideological origin and value core of the traditional Confucian concept of justice and benefit, which has had a far-reaching impact on the formation and development of China's moral culture. China people's concept of justice and benefit has experienced a historical evolution from the traditional "shame to talk about benefits" to facing the market calmly and seeking benefits, and then some people value benefits over righteousness. The existence and spread of the phenomenon of abandoning righteousness and harming others not only have the reasons for the weakening of moral education, but also have its profound objective and realistic basis. Under the condition of socialist market economy, we should first interpret the category of "righteousness" in the traditional concept of justice and benefit by modern materialism, eliminate the anti-utilitarian nature attached by Confucianism, and understand it as social justice, national overall interest or collective interest, so as to bring the traditional concept of justice and benefit of Confucianism into the category of collectivism moral values. On the basis of collectivism principle, we should comprehensively and accurately understand the relationship between national collective interests and individual interests, so as to build it on the "real collective", fundamentally eliminate the opposition between "justice" and "benefit", and advocate a new socialist concept of justice and benefit with justice and benefit as the priority. Honesty and credit is an important norm of traditional morality in China, and it is also a universal basic principle of modern civil and commercial law. The construction of social integrity has the duality of moral construction and legal system construction. Legal principles should be based on their own moral rationality, and the implementation of good laws cannot be separated from the cooperation of the corresponding social moral environment. The two aspects depend on each other, are the basic premise of each other and are indispensable. Neither the ethical self-discipline within the subject nor the legal heteronomy outside the society can maintain the social credit system alone. Under the background of marketization and legalization, it is necessary to extend the traditional Confucian concept of honesty from "friends" and other "acquaintances" to strangers, especially in the social and economic fields, to overcome its pure virtue color of completely excluding interests, and to transform it from an identity ethics that believes in acquaintances' affection to a modern economic ethics and contract ethics that believes in laws and contracts. The Confucian concept of "sincerity inside and trust outside" is based on its concept of justice and benefit, and it is precisely because of its extreme contempt and denial of interests and profit-seeking behavior that the traditional concept of honesty cannot be applied to the field of economic activities with profit as its basic purpose.