Righteousness before profit, the relevant point of view

The ancient saying goes: righteousness and profit are the good friends of man. The structure of the word man is like righteousness and profit supporting each other. Righteousness, at the individual level, is the correct behavior, in line with the morality. At the social level, it establishes a just and fair moral system. To seek profit, i.e., to gain profit. As two sides of the same coin, the former is where the glory of humanity lies, and the latter is where the continuity of life is based. In our view, when one seeks profit, one seeks righteousness, that is, one seeks profit at the rate of righteousness, and one seeks both righteousness and profit. This position can be proved from the rational understanding of the relationship between righteousness and profit and the social practice of choosing between righteousness and profit. First of all, from the rational understanding of the relationship between righteousness and profit, first, the relationship between righteousness and profit is dialectical, profit is the basis for the existence of righteousness, righteousness is the value of profit-oriented. Righteousness and seek profit is to emphasize that there is no empty righteousness, the so-called warehouse endowed with real know manners, clothing and food enough to know honor and disgrace. Second, the relationship between righteousness and profit is dynamic development. Seek profit, prompting people to seek both the benefits of survival, but also seek the benefits of development, not only seek personal profit, but also seek the world's public interest. Righteousness, to promote people to seek benefits have the way, give and take to, benefit has benefited people, *** seek development. The profit without justice, will jeopardize personal development, social progress. No benefit of righteousness, is bound to be empty talk, from its righteousness not to seek its own benefit to its righteousness when seeking to benefit the cognitive leap, proved this point. Second, from the point of view of the social practice of righteousness and profit-seeking. First, justice while seeking profit is the main theme of social and historical development. On the one hand, human beings have always sought profit as the foundation of their existence, and have become the driving force of history by ruling out evil. On the other hand, human beings have always overcome evil with justice, so that the pursuit of efficiency in seeking profit is prescribed and promoted by the moral rules of justice. From tradition to modernity, from agricultural civilization to industrial civilization, from closed society to the open world, the accumulation of individual wealth and the increase of total wealth of the society in the pursuit of profit are always under the general goal of justice. The history of modernization is the history of justice and profit-seeking. Secondly, justice and profit-seeking is the general direction of China's social change, the essence of China's problems, is the low level of productive forces, do not adapt to the needs of material culture, the key to China's development, is to provide the whole country on the basis of a just and fair morality, **** the situation of development. The former, the requirement to seek profit, the latter, the promotion of justice, the former, is the actual goal, the latter, is a far-reaching purpose, not just to seek profit, short-sighted and short-sighted, not allowed to the law and morality, justice and seek profit, long-term long-term, is where China's hope is, in this regard, we believe that, is the right to seek profit when it is righteous.

The word "righteousness" in the etymology of the word has the following meanings: ① just reason; upright behavior: justice | morality ② affection: righteousness | faith | affection

1 interest: the reason for all individual behavior, group behavior.

2 Forms of interest: tangible, intangible, long-term, immediate.

3 Scope of interest: all political, economic, and cultural activities that revolve around achieving the desires or purposes of an individual or group.

4 The role of interests: contributes to all kinds of relationships between man and man, man and society, man and nature, and promotes the continuous development of human society in the direction of the pursuit of interests.

See can be defined as two kinds of righteousness, a moral and ethical righteousness, that is, justice, moral righteousness and righteousness of faith (personally I feel that righteousness of faith should be divided into the front, words with faith more out of morality rather than emotion), emotional righteousness has righteousness and emotional righteousness.

Justice:

Dictionary:

A positive judgment of right and wrong, good and evil in politics, law, and morality. As a moral category, synonymous with "justice", mainly refers to behavior that conforms to certain social moral norms. Whether people's behavior conforms to the laws of historical development and the fundamental interests of the greatest number of people is the objective standard for judging whether people's behavior conforms to justice.

This means that righteousness is "in line with the law of historical development" and "the fundamental interests of the greatest number of people". This is naturally more important than limiting "righteousness" to the individual.

Doctrine:

Doctrine is morality and justice.

DaoYi is a social ideology, a constraint, a norm, a rule for human beings. Morality itself is the norm used to maintain and adjust human relations.

Interest maintains the relationship between people, but morality is the norm of this relationship. People pursue interest as an instinctive desire, but it should be limited within the bounds of morality. If you destroy the morality for the sake of profit, it will make the relationship between people and people and society become chaotic. Destroy a stable and harmonious environment, and ultimately will affect their own interests, resulting in "righteousness" and "profit" two empty, is very undesirable behavior.

Reliance: that is, to keep their promises and keep their word, I did not find an insightful explanation.

There are a lot of examples of good faith, and there are a lot of negative examples of people who don't keep their word and make a profit, so you can look for some of the classic ones on Baidu.

Emotional: 1. human feelings and righteousness. 2. affection; favor. (may not be all)

Recipient of the drop of water, that is, when the spring to return. Whether it is the parents of the grace of nurturing, or other people's life-saving grace, know and repay is one of the connotations of the Chinese culture handed down, repayment is a kind of affirmative behavior of the act of giving grace, will promote the continuation of this behavior, if for the sake of the interests of the unquestioning, or even enmity, will undoubtedly will be the warmth of the society destroyed to create a cold-blooded, everyone's self-safety of the society, we can not allow such a thing to happen.

The above, is the basic definition and analysis, and then, is the main points of the debate, there may be some miscellaneous.

1. The connection to "modern society".

Personally, I think times change, systems change, but "human nature" is always stable. People have the need to pursue interests, but also the need to maintain "righteousness" as a means of harmonizing the pursuits of each individual, whether in modern times or in ancient times, "righteousness" should be placed in front of profit. Otherwise, people's interests are not effectively resolved, will only result in internal conflict in society, and the need to maximize productivity is fundamentally contrary to the modern society, therefore, is also more righteous than profit.

2. According to Laozi's point of view, there is no heaven and earth, there is the road first, and there are rules for everything in the world, which explains the importance of rules. "Righteousness" plays the role of moral subterfuge in society, and is the prerequisite for people to pursue interests, and all behaviors that ignore "righteousness" because of interests are short-sighted.

3. The example of the debate: "The fact that we were able to have a fair debate with each other today is a sign that righteousness outweighs profit. Winning or losing is in our best interest for this match, but has the other debater interfered with us by improper means to gain victory? I believe the other side won't, because the other side understands this truth that righteousness is greater than profit in modern society." (can be deleted, randomized application)

4. The definition of "benefit" problem. Although there is already an explanation of "benefit", the other side will not necessarily equate profit with benefit. If you come to what is beneficial to the people, the country and the people to steal the concept, a moment really can not catch the key, to prevent similar situations there are two ways, the first is to prove that the interpretation of the benefit for the benefit of the second is to think of some of the other side of the definition that may be used. But Chinese culture is so vast and profound that a word "li" can be interpreted in such a way that neither is easy. But what is certain is that the profit should be put on the opposite side of "righteousness", if it is righteous and favorable things, not a point of contradiction in the debate.

5. Example of national righteousness issue: "If the other side believes that profit is greater than righteousness, is it not approved of this kind of behavior to sell the country for glory?"

6. For the "profit" is the basis of life, when the "profit" threatens the life of the righteousness of the two rebuttals: "life, but also what I want, righteousness, but also what I want, the two can not be reconciled, to give up their lives to take righteousness. I will give up my life for righteousness. --The second one is that there is a concept of protecting the weak in morality and righteousness. In our modern society, morality and righteousness do not allow people to lose the fundamentals of life, even if the state needs to pay a certain amount of expenses, it still needs to guarantee people a minimum level of life, so righteousness is greater than profit.

7. There is a line in the Eight Honors and Eight Shames that says, "Honest and trustworthy is an honor, forgetting righteousness is a shame," which can be used as a call to arms.

That's all ...... more than an hour to type out, the reward points are not high, no power to continue to write.

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Some definitions taken from Baidu Encyclopedia