论生态伦理的时代自觉及其实践路径

On the Awareness and Practice of Ecological Ethics

生态是自然的状态,人类生存于自然环境中,有史以来就应是生态的和谐存在与发展。在农耕时代,人类虽然不自觉生态的价值与意义,却是敬畏自然,与自然平等相处而符合生态伦理的。然而,近代以降,人类的工具理性大加凸显,自然生态在城市化与工业化过程中遭受严重的破坏,人类也在破坏过程中觉醒生态的意义与生态责任的承担。而实践生态伦理的路径或者说发展生态伦理的指向应是全社会的责任担当,特别是公共政府的责任担当。

Ecology is natural environment where human beings are supposed to exist and develop harmoniously. In the a- grarian age, human beings, though unaware of its value and significance, held nature in awe and lived with it, so it was in conformity with the philosophy of ecological ethics. However, with human＇s growing instrumental rationality since mod- ern times, there has been a serious damage to natural ecology in the process of urbanization and industrialization, during which man has become conscious of the importance of ecology and his commitments to it. Thus, it is the obligation of whole community, especially the governments to practice the philosophy of ecological ethics.