海外学者对儒家生态思想的研究

Study on Confucian Ecologism by Overseas Scholars

本文试图对儒家生态思想的海外研究状况进行梳理,以此呈现该问题的海外研究现状与特点。海外学者对于儒家与生态问题的考察大致从以下几个方面进行:一、有机整体的宇宙自然观:宇宙自生论与有机整体论由此进入学者们讨论的范围。二、天人合一的思想核心:学者们注意到了在儒家天人合一思想中,"天"不仅赋予万物存在价值,也赋予万物伦理价值。一方面,儒家天人合一的思想具有丰富的哲学资源;另一方面,它还有无尽的伦理资源,可供发展更全面的环境伦理学。三、人文主义的特征:儒家思想对人的因素的注重是无碍于其生态特性的;相反,儒家思想对于人的道德修养的追求,对于实现天人合一,实现自然的和谐有着重要的意义。四、伦理扩展的可能性。

Overseas scholars have made studies on Confucian ecologism from the following four aspects： 1 ） the natural view of the universe as an organic unity, thereby focusing on theories of the universal spontaneous generation and the organic holism; 2） the core of the unity of Heaven and man, in which, the scholars have found, in the Confucian theory of the unity of Heaven and man, the Heaven endues everything with existence and ethic values; 3） the feature of the humanism, which is propitious to achieve the unity between nature and humans; 4） the possibilities of ethic expansion.