关键词: 私恶, 公利, 伦理评价

Abstract: The proposition of Mandeville's “Private Vice, Public Benefits” is a contradiction and transition. He had both approved that private vices can promote and accord essentially with public benefits; and he had adopted contradictory form in judgment of value, he believed the private interest is evil,he can't cast off ethical theory of Christian asceticism. Mandeville's thoughtshave provided preparation for Smith to expound economic structure and its ethical property of capitalism. On the ethical judgment of private interest or individual benefit, his thought of “Private Vice, Public Benefits” has become the middle link from Christian asceticism of the Middle Ages to modern capitalistic individualism and egoism. Under the condition of socialist market economy, this proposition of his has a significance of enlightenment for us how to treat individuals' interest.

Key words: private vices, public benefits, ethical judgment