The Utility School of Southern Song Dynasty, represented by Chen Liang and Ye Shi, argues against spiritual mediation and temperal development for practical utility and usefulness. Their economic ethical thoughts, including equal emphasis on agriculture and commerce, practitioners of four industries having equal status, wealth to be stored in civilians and the protection of properties, nourished people's pursuit of richness in east Zhejiang and exerted profound influences on local commercial economic development and prosperity. In addition, the consistency of the School's utilitarian economic ethics with commercial economy development to certain extent inspires us to rethink Max Webber's remarks on the "hindering"of Confucian ethics on market economy forming de development.%以陈亮和叶适等人为代表的南宋事功学派，一反理学强调心性修养的治学倾向，公开倡导以务实事、求实功为宗旨的事功伦理，特别是农商并重、四民平等、藏富于民和保护富人等经济伦理思想，不仅滋养了重利富民的浙东精神，对浙东地区商品经济的发展和繁荣也产生了深远影响。同时，这一具有浓厚事功色彩的经济伦理与商品经济发展之间的某种契合关系也在一定程度上为重新思考马克斯·韦伯关于儒家伦理阻碍市场经济形成和发展的论断提供了有益的启示。
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