中国古代德性论生态伦理思想的当代意义

The Contemporary Significance of Chinese Ancient Ecological Ethics of Virtue Theory

中国古代生态伦理思想是一种具有自身特征的德性论传统。它从人的主体地位出发而关怀天地万物;它主张成己成物、利人利物的根本价值追求与生态保护具有一致性;它倡导的生活方式包含着内在的生态美德,可以推动当代人进行生活方式的合理改变;它崇尚向圣贤的崇高道德学习所包含的道德动力,可以消解现代西方环境伦理学的负面效应,激励人们更为主动、自觉地从道德上关爱生态环境。

Ecological ethics in ancient China is a virtue theory tradition with its own characteristics.The thought takes human being's subjective status as the departure point and cares about the universe.It is in agreement with ecological protection in that it advocates benefiting oneself so benefiting other human beings,creatures and nature.Its lifestyle with intrinsic ecological virtues can help to promote reasonable changes in contemporary people's lifestyle.Furthermore,the moral motivating force produced in the moral cultivation method of following the examples of sages and saints can help to dissolve the negative effects of modern Western environmental ethics,and inspire people to morally care about nature and environment more initiatively and more consciously.