东西方生态思想比较

无论东西方,人类早期都朴素地认为人是属于自然界的一部分。随着宗教的产生尤其是近代科学的发展,东西方生态思想出现分化,西方走上"征服自然"之路,东方保持了"天人合一"传统。征服自然遭到的报复使西方人在20世纪首先开始关于生态的反思,此时东方人则试图重复西方工业化模式。当代东西方生态思想的差距表现为"生态观"与"环境论"的区别。席卷西方的绿色运动标志着生态思想正进入哲学伦理学层次,东方的环境保护则基本上只在经济学、社会学范畴兜圈子。以人为惟一出发点的环境论有待深化与升华。

Comparison of Ecological Thought Between East and West

At early times,both eastern and western people simply thought that man was a part of nature. With the birth of religion, especially with the development of modern science, the ecological thought of them split up. The west preferred "conquer of nature "while the east upheld the tradition of "the integration of man and nature". The retribution that westerners got from their belief made them think for the first time about ecology. At the time, however, the easterners attempted to repeat western industrial model. Nowadays, the difference between east and west in ecology is that between " ecological view" and " environment theory". The wide-spread of green movement in the west indicates that the ecological thought has come to the level of ethic philosophy. On the contrary,environment protection thought of the east is just within the scope of economics and sociology.