关键词: 诚信, 信用, 道德限度

Abstract: The research and construction of social honesty and trustworthiness is the emphasis of present ethics research and moral construction. And many scholars regard the construction of credit as primary approach and breach. Whether they have seized the key to the question or not still needs to be thought carefully. By comparing and reflecting these two concepts, we can find that honesty and trustworthiness has more conception and credit has its intrinsic moral limits. First, the main body of credit is a pure person while that of honesty and trustworthiness is a real-life person. Secondly, credit is to realize extrinsic benefits while honesty and trustworthiness is based on a man's intrinsic value. Thirdly, credit represents a utility sense while honesty and trustworthiness represents a practical wisdom. By these differences, we can confirm the character, range and degree when credit operates and we can be cognizant of its importance and limits. Then the status of credit in the construction of social honesty and trustworthiness can be put exactly.

Key words: Honesty and Trustworthiness; Credit; Moral Limits