环境伦理之光

Light of Environmental Ethics

环境既包含自然要素又包含经济、政治、文化等社会要素,对之作全方位认识,有必要从哲学层次上加以研究。造成环境危机的根源并不在自然本身,确在于人们的价值观念。环境科学研究应与伦理学研究结盟,把伦理学正当行为观念扩至对环境的关心,把道德上的权利概念扩至整个环境实体和过程。环境伦理学要求人们的社会、经济行为生态化,所选择的发展途径符合环境道德规范,从利己主义的“经济人”桎梏中解脱出来向自觉保护环境的“道德人”转变。

Environment is a complicated system which contains natural factors and social factors of economy, politics and culture. It is essential to study from philosophical level so as to understand omnibearingly. It is not nature itself but the people's viewpoints of value which causes environmental crisis fundermentally. Environmental science study should combine with ethics, extend rightful activity and idea of ethics to environment and extend right concept of virtue to whole environmental body and course. Environmental ethics requires people's social and economic activity to be ecology, and development course who chooses to be in accordance with environmental ethic standard . It also requires egoism and change to ethic person who protects environment consiously, thus people's life can have true value.