生态伦理的性质

人类把道德关怀扩展到人与自然的关系之间 ,这反映了人类伦理发展中的一种深刻的变化。生态伦理是作为一种新的伦理范式而出现的 ,它不是已有的伦理学理论在自然中的一种推广和应用 ,而是作为类存在的人与自然之间的伦理关系 ,因此 ,它不能被理解为是以自然为中介的人与人之间的伦理关系。那种坚持认为必须把生态伦理置于人与人的伦理关系框架下进行考察才有意义的观点 ,事实上取消了生态伦理存在的一切可能性。这种观点本质上是一种人类中心主义思维方式的结果 ,它把道德看成是一种与时间无关的封闭的体系 ,否认了道德能够进化的一切可能性

The Essence of Ecological Ethics

Humankind extends moral concerns to the relationship between man and nature, which reflects a kind of profound change in the development of human morals. Ecological morals appear as a new archetype. It is not an extension and application of the then existing ethics theory in nature. What ecological morals deal with is the moral relationship between man existing as a category and nature. Therefore ecological morals cannot be understood as the moral relationship between people with nature going in between. Those who insist that it is meaningful only by putting ecological morals under the framework of the moral relationship between people actually eliminate all kinds of possibilities for the existence of ecological ethics. This kind of view is essentially a result of the kind of thinking ways that regard humankind as the center of the universe. It regards morals as an enclosed system that has nothing to do with time and denies all the evolving possibilities of morals.