地的农业伦理学诠释

An Interpretation to Land from the Perspective of Agricultural Ethics

地作为华夏古农业文明创世纪的文化核心,为人类生存和发展基石的农业活动所本初认知,其农业伦理学蕴意深厚,总结为"厚德载物"。地上的农业生物因天候的变化,感受旱涝、寒暑而相应改变其生活和生产状态,这种信息的传递层次老子表达为"人法地,地法天,天法道,道法自然"的哲学逻辑,将自然置于伦理观的最高层,是道家对人类文明的重大贡献。农业地境的伦理解读含有四重要义:一为地理地带性的伦理学认知,二为地境的类型学之伦理认知,三为地境的生态学伦理认知,四为土地耕作之伦理认知。现代农业生产系统具有多层结构,多层结构之间发生系统耦合而大幅度提高生产效益。农业的多层结构将引发结构简单扁平的传统"农耕文明"伦理观趋向结构丰富厚实的现代农业伦理观,这将为中国现代农业文明做出重大贡献。

As a cultural core of world creation in the ancient agricultural civilization of Chinese Nation, land is the original cognition for agricultural activities sustaining the survival and development of human beings. Agricultural Ethics has rich connotations, which can be summarized as ＂Great virtue can carry all things＂. The life and production of land agricultural lives change and experience draught and floods as well as the winter and summer as climate changes. Laozi expressed this kind of message passing as ＂man obeys land; land obeys heaven; heaven obeys law; and law obeys nature＂. As this philosophy puts nature on the top of the ethics, it is a significant contribution made by the Taoists to human civilization. The ethic interpretation to agricultural land contains four layers. The first is the ethic cognition of the geographical zonality; the second is the ethic cognition of the typology of geographic landscape; the third is the ethic cognition of ecology of geographic landscape; and the fourth is the ethic cognition of land farming. The modem agri- cultural production system is structured with multifold layers, which are connected with each other to im- prove production efficiency in a large scale. The agricultural multi-layer structure will cause the traditional simple and flat ethics of farming civilization to grow to be modem agricultural ethics with a rich and com- plex structure. This will make a great contribution to China＇ s modem agricultural civilization.