论生态伦理及其内涵

有人认为生态伦理就是人际伦理的移用,就是把社会道德规范、原则简单移用到环境事务中来。这样来理解生态伦理是肤浅的,忽略了其质的规定性。其实,生态伦理就是指人类在关于自然环境、生态环境的实践活动中所形成的伦理关系及其调节原则,其内涵包括两个紧密联系的方面:首先,它表征的是一种客观的关系,即人与自然之间的道德关系;其次,它是用以调整相应的关系的积极手段,即生态道德。

A Discussion on the Ecological Ethics and its Signification

Some people consider that the Ecological Ethics is just the transfermission from Human Ethics.That is to say,it simply transfers the social moral criteria into ecological affairs.But it is superficial to appreciate the Ecological Ethics like that and ignore its essential signification.What is the Ecological Ethics on earth? Briefly speaking,the Ecological Ethics is the moral relation and regulating rules that man has formed in their practice concerning nature and the ecological environment.Its signification is made up of two aspects that associate each other closely: Firstly,it indicates a kind of objective relation that is the moral-relation between human and the nature,and then it is the active means that is used to regulate the corresponding relation that is the ecological morality.