道家生态伦理观的“四知”原则及其现代价值

The Foundation of the Taoism's Ecoethic Idea and Its Practical Value

道家哲学是一种崇尚自然的哲学。其基本原则主要包括知常曰明、知和曰常、知止不殆和知足不辱。这些观点对我们解决二十一世纪所面临的生态环境问题具有重要启迪意义。

Taoism highly regards nature and advocates man should go back to nature to avoid his becoming its slave. Taoism also puts forward the thought of ecological ethics that man should play a major part in the world but not dominate nature,and that man must be aware of his possessions and be satisfied with them. Those are great significances to enlighten us about how to solve ecological questions confronted in the 21 st century.