先秦儒家生态思想探微——以孔、孟、荀为例

A Probe into the Ecological Thoughts of Pre-Qin Dynasty Confucianism: Taking Confucius,Mencius and Hsun Tzu for Examples

对于中国古代经典中所蕴含的生态思想,人们多从佛、道两家进行挖掘、开发,实则儒家思想中亦蕴涵着丰富的生态伦理思想。比之于佛、道,儒家的"有限度的人类中心主义"于今更富有契合性。不过,由于先秦儒家的生态思想乃是根植于"仁"之德性之上,通过"仁"心之存养、拓展逐至展开。这无疑使得儒家的生态思想带有一定的隐晦性。在先秦儒家中,孔子、孟子、荀子可谓儒家思想的代表,挖掘儒家生态思想于今有着重要的借鉴意义。

Talking about the ecological thoughts of the classical Chinese philosophy,we are inclined to mention Buddha and Daoism.In fact,there are abundant ecological thoughts in Confucianism.Compared to Buddha and Daoism,Confucianism is more fit to meet modernity.Since the thoughts of Confucianism are hard to be known,it is important for us to research the ecological thoughts of Confucianism.