“诚信”(trust)、“信义”(faith)、“契约”(contract)和“信用”(credit)是贯穿人类商品经济运转的关键概念。对这些概念历史演变的清晰把握是理解近代社会经济伦理规范的必要条件。近年来,国际学界逐渐开始重视近代科学的诞生与近代经济伦理核心概念的建立之间存在的密切关系。这一点一直是国内研究的薄弱环节。唯有在近代科学背景下把握霍布斯关于“自然”所做出的重新理解,及该解释为现代市场经济信用制度摆脱纯粹的道德、神意规劝转向法制规约的突破性贡献,才能深刻地理解现代社会运中的新契约观与诚信观。 “Trust,” “faith,” “contract,” and “credit” are the key concepts that run through the human commodity economy. A clear grasp of the historical evolution of these concepts is a necessary condition for understanding the norms of modern social and economic ethics. In recent years, the international academic community has gradually begun to attach importance to the close relationship between the birth of modern science and the establishment of the core concept of modern economic ethics. This has been the weak link in domestic research. Only by grasping Hobbes’s re-understanding of “Nature ” in the modern scientific background and explaining the breakthrough contribution of the modern market economy credit system out of pure morality and divine advice to the statutory statutes can we profoundly Understand New Contract View and Honesty View in Modern Social Movement.