西方动物解放论与中国佛教护生观比较研究

Comparative Investigation of Western Animal Liberation Theory and Chinese Buddhist Viewpoints of Protecting Beings

西方动物解放论和中国佛教护生观存在诸多共同之处,同时又有较大的差异,这些异同主要体现在生命平等的价值观、人道主义、素食主义、生态伦理思想等方面。在生命平等的价值观方面,二者在动物权利和人类义务上各有千秋,生命平等原则也大相径庭;在人道主义方面,二者在反对杀生、拒斥残忍的思想和行动上基本一致;在素食主义方面,二者的素食主义理论殊途同归,素食主义实践却步调不一;在生态伦理思想方面,二者的哲学基础迥然不同,但非人类中心主义立场却是不谋而合。

Western Animal Liberation Theory and Chinese Buddhist Viewpoints of Protecting Beings not only have a good many common ground, at the same time, they have also bigger distinctions. These similarities and differences are presented in the field of of life equality, humanism, vegetarianism, and the thought of ecological ethics, etc., In terms of the life e- quality, they represent their own advantages in animal right and human obligation, but they are widely divergent in the principle of life equality; in terms of humanism, the ideas and actions of these two theories are similar to each other in fighting against killing animals and resisting cruelty; in terms of vegetarianism, the theories of both arrive at the same end by different means with distinct practices; in terms of the thought of ecological ethics, the philosophical basis apparently varies from each other, but they happen to have the same view with non-anthropocentricism.