环境伦理学的产生是伦理文化史上的深刻变革

当代环境运动和环境伦理思想为调整被工业社会扭曲了的人与自然的关系，正引导与推动着传统伦理学主导观念和道德习俗的变革。环境伦理科学思想的提出，标志着人类环境意识的觉醒和升华。从人类与环境关系的历史演变上，考察和分析这种变革的现实社会根源和它的历史思想文化根源，研究东西方传统伦理思想的演变特点及走向，推进东西方思想的整合，取长补短，超越“主客二分”思想，建构与发展现代环境伦理学，以切实推进当代伦理文化的变革，共同创造全球绿色文明新时代。

Emergence of Environmental Ethics: the Drastic Change in the History of Ethical Culture

This article indicates that the present-day environmental campaign and environmental ethics are now leading and promoting a change in the guiding faith of traditional ethics and moral customs for the purpose of adjusting the distorted relationship between man and nature. The emexgence of environmental ethics indicates the environmental awareness of human beings and distillation. The author, from the standpoint of the evolution of man-environment relationship, observes and analyses the social, historical and cultural source of the change.The study of the evolution characteristics and direction of East and West traditional ethics is an attempt to combines the ideas of East and West so as to learn from each other's strong points and offSet each other's weakness, in order to construct and develop modern environmental ethics and make practical efforts to drive the revolution of modern ethical culture and create a green civilization on earth.