河流伦理

The Ethics of Rivers

人类在认识自然、改造自然的过程中,创造了灿烂的原始文明、农业文明、工业文明,河流作为人类及众多生物赖以生存的基础而成为人类文明的摇篮。工业文明以来,随着科学技术和社会生产力飞速发展,人类对河流开始了以自我为中心的大规模开发利用,导致全球范围内的众多河流陷入了空前生存危机。因此,人类社会应反思自身与河流的关系,构建河流伦理,给河流以道德关怀。从河流伦理的提出、河流伦理的基本内涵、构建河流伦理的目的、河流伦理与维持河流健康生命、河流伦理的研究瞻望等五个角度构建了河流伦理理论体系,以期让维持河流健康生命成为人们的自觉意识和行动。

Human created resplendent primal civilization,agriculture civilization and industrial civilization in realizing and transforming nature.As a basis for survival of human and other biological,rivers have become the cradle of human civilization.From the industrial civilization,along with the rapid development of science,technology and social productivity,human began self-centered large-scale exploitation to the river,which led many rivers to a full-fledged survival crisis.Therefore,the human society should reflect on the relation with rivers,constructing ethics in moral concerns.The article constructed theory system of the river ethics from five perspectives,put forward a basic connotation of the river ethics,purpose of constructing the river ethics,maintain river health life,look forward to the river ethics.So a maintaining healthy life of the river becomes people’s consciousness and action.