مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري - ETHICS OF ECONOMICS AND OUR VALUES UNDER THE SHADE OF MODERNITY

Abstract :

Just like all other religions, in human systems, the economic activities are implemented with a human prototype that is established in accordance with a baseline mentality. The most important approaches that emerged with modernity in the Western opinion in the subject of human, only degrades it to a biological asset and cannot explain the individual and social aspects with an integrative approach. The capitalist system which is one of the most important manifestations of modernity, has a human envision which only seeks for the interest and income, and mostly focuses on the individual interests. The interests determine each behaviour of this rational human that is described as homo-economics, and it also a human model which considers the material benefit as an only single valid value. The aim of this study is, having regard to the changes and transformations occurred in the historical process, to discuss the reasons of the depression of era on the basis of the ethics of economics and consumption behaviour, and to offer a suggestion in order to provide education of moral values and consumption consciousness of the economic behaviour in all layers of society especially in the schools.