儒家生命观与当代生态价值之重构

解决当代世界性生态环境持续恶化问题,需要对轴心文明以来向往人与自然和谐的各种伦理价值进行重新整合.由"天人合一"思想推衍出的儒家生命哲学,作为中国古代生态观念的核心体系,表达了农耕文明下保护生态环境的朴素认识和实践,以及对人类未来境遇的深切关怀,构成了中国人持之以恒的心态价值.这对于深刻反思当今世界的生态危机,重新建构适应人类未来发展的生态价值系统,具有积极的借鉴意义.

Confucian Concept of Life and the Modern Reconstruction of Ecological Values

The solving of the increasingly serious ecological problems facing the modem people requires a new understanding of the ethical values concerning the relationship between man and nature,and the Confucian concept of life,i.e.the harmonious co-existence of man and nature,which came into being against an agricultural background, has thus a great role to play.