简论中国古代的环境伦理思想

Ethical Thought in Environment in Ancient China

中国古代环境伦理思想的哲学基础是天人统一观 ,尊重生命 ,兼爱万物是这一伦理思想的主题。寡欲节用是中国古代珍惜自然资源的传统美德。中国古代就已形成了渗透环境伦理意识的政法理念。不同于西方传统伦理学所奉行的人类中心主义 ,中国先哲主张保持人和自然关系的和谐统一。作为珍贵的文化遗产 ,中国古代环境伦理思想是保证和维护中华民族几千年生存繁衍和中华文明绵延不断的重要因素之一 ,它对现代环境伦理学的发展也具有重大的理论借鉴价值。在当前现代化建设中 ,有分析地借鉴我国古代的环境伦理思想 ,对创建适合我国国情的环境伦理学 。

The environmental ethics of ancient China is based on the philosophy that man is an integral part of nature, in which the ethical thought of loving life and loving nature is emphasized. In ancient China, ascetic and thrift of not wasting natural resources had become a traditional virtue, and concepts of politics and law steeped in environmental ethics had already been established. Other than anthropocentrism of the West ethics, ancient Chinese thinkers held that man and nature should be in harmonious unity. As a valuable cultural heritage, the environmental ethics of ancient China has been one of the important elements contributed greatly to the very existence of Chinese nation and the continuity of Chinese civilization for thousands of years. It has also been used for reference theoretically in the development of modern environmental ethics. It is of great significance in today's modernization to draw lessons from the ancient Chinese environmental ethics in order to establish an environmental ethics suitable to China and to solve the problems of sustainable development.