传染病危机的生态伦理学反思

Reflection on Ecological Ethics of Infectious Disease Crisis

传染病危机在一定程度上反映出人与自然关系的失衡,是自然向人类敲响的警钟。人类是大自然的孩子,但当人类从农业文明进入工业文明之后,人与自然之间相对稳定的关系就被彻底打破了。正当人类表明自己是有史以来最高效、最无情的环境破坏者,并在这块蛮荒大陆上刀耕火种、披荆斩棘之时,大自然也在无形中通过不断出现的传染病警醒和教育人类。人类获益了,自然却生病了。在一个生病的自然中,人类也无法幸免。"幸福"是人们面对传染病时的"最佳免疫力",这种免疫力可以从优美的环境中获得。传染病危机也促使传统伦理学从城市回归自然并帮助人们重返文明,找到与自然和谐相处的生存方式,以建构人类对传染病的天然屏障。

To some extent,the crisis of infectious diseases reflects the imbalance of the relationship between man and nature,which is the alarm of nature. Human being is the child of nature,but when human beings enter the industrial civilization from the agricultural civilization, the relatively stable relationship between human and nature is completely broken. Just when we show that we are the most efficient and merciless environmental destroyer in history,and when we are slashing and burning the land and cutting off thorns according to thorns,nature is also imperceptibly alerting and educating us through the emerging infectious diseases. Man gains,but nature falls ill. In a sick nature,human beings are not immune. "Happiness"is people’s"best immunity"in the face of infectious diseases,which can be obtained from a beautiful environment. In the face of nature,we are all barbarians in the industrial era,and the ethical thinking of nature helps us to return to civilization,find a way of living in harmony with nature,and build our natural barrier against infectious diseases. The crisis of infectious diseases also impels the traditional ethics from the city to the nature.