罗尔斯顿环境伦理学的生态性拓展

Ecological Extension of Rolston's Environmental Ethics

道德作为人的生存方式,其关注范围必然随着人类活动领域的扩展而拓展,道德关注范围的拓展意味着道德立论依据的变化。罗尔斯顿的环境伦理学以生态学为基础,论证了环境伦理学是关于我们的根源的伦理,是最具利他主义精神的伦理学,认为恰当的生存单元就是道德关心的恰当的层面,由此将道德关注的范围拓展至整个自然生态系统和地球,这是迄今为止最为彻底的伦理拓展。

Morality is a human lifestyle.The extension of moral concern which is determined by the extension of human living areas means that moral grounds are changing.Rolston's environmental ethics which is established on the ground of ecology argues that nature is our source,that environmental ethics is the most altruistic of ethics,and that the appropriate unit of moral concern is the appropriate unit of survival.So Rolston's environmental ethics that concerns for the whole ecosystems and the Earth has the most extensive moral concern so far.