环境伦理学的认识论困境及其症结

The Epistemological Paradox of Environmental Ethics and Its Crux

在认识论上,非人类中心主义环境伦理学存在一个明显的逻辑矛盾:一方面,它特别强调自然的系统性和关联性,呼吁人们以整体主义的思维方式看待并处理人与自然的一体化关系,具有强烈的有机论色彩;而另一方面,为了赋予自身科学的“刚性”或“硬度”,它又不得不借助于生态科学的最新发现,借助于机械论的、还原论的、主客二分的思维方式,具有强烈的科学主义色彩。对现代思维方式的“知性”解读是导致这一困境的认识论根源。

This paper displays the epistemological paradox of the non-anthropocentrism.On the one hand,the non-anthropocentrism,a kind of strong organism,places special emphasis on the system of nature,calling on people to deal with the integration of man and nature in a holism thinking way;On the other hand,in order to prove the objectivity of its theory and to endow itself with scientific 'hardness' and 'rigidity',it has to employ the newest discoveries of ecology and thinks in way of mechanism or reductionism.So it is,in a certain degree,a kind of strong scientism.