试论我国诚实信用原则的道德基础--从身份到契约的转变

诚实信用原则是市场经济中诚信道德在法律上的体现,已成为民法的一项基本原则.诚实信用原则的功能可分为规范功能和社会功能.诚实信用的法律功能的发挥离不开其道德基础.中国传统诚信道德观念建立在小农经济的乡土社会之上,因此,这种诚信观是封闭的、狭窄的,也是脆弱的和不稳定的.现在虽然人们的诚信观念接受了市场经济的冲击和洗礼,但还带有浓重的传统色彩,它还不是完全建立在市场经济之上的,即不是以契约为媒介的,因此,培养以市场经济为基础的诚实信用道德已成为迫在眉睫的事情.

Moral Base of Bona Fide Doctrine in China --The transform from identify to contract

Bona fide doctrine,which comes from the morality of bona fide in the market economy,becomes one of the basic doctrines in civil law.The bona fide doctrine cannot act without the morality.Chinese traditional morality of bona fide was based on country society and was closed,narrow,weak and instable.Now Chinese morality of bona fide is not based on the absolute market economy and contract and it is a little traditional,so we should cultivate the modern morality of bona fide based on market economy.