“生态认知系统”的概念及其环境史学意义——兼议中国环境史上的生态认知方式

The Concept of the System of Ecological Understandings and its Significance in Environmental History Studies——a Brief Discussion on the Modes of Ecological Cognition in Chinese History

人类对周遭世界各种自然事物和生态现象的感知和认识方式,以及所获得的经验、知识、观念、信仰、意象乃至情感等,构成人类的"生态认知系统"。提出"生态认知系统"这个新概念,对于进一步推进和深化中国环境史研究具有重要的学术意义。中国传统的生态认知方式,大体可以归纳为"实用理性认知"、"神话宗教认知"、"道德伦理认知"和"诗性审美认知"。

Human perceptions and understandings on the nature around,including approaches they adoapt to natural things and ecological phenomena,as well as experience,knowledge,ideas,beliefs,images and emotions they obtain,constitute the System of Human Ecological Understandings,which has academic significance to promote and deepen the researches on Chinese environmental history.The traditional modes of ecological understanding of the Chinese people in history may be classified into four ways as the practical and rational cognition,the myths and religious cognition,the ethical cognition,and the poetic aesthetic cognition.