从德性理解环境伦理学

环境伦理学是应用伦理学,既有一般伦理学的共性,也有其特殊性。自然作为环境伦理学中最直接的对象,具有与人相似的生命特性,这是有德性的人将其道德情怀和品性投射于自然的重要原因。人的环境行为和态度的影响具有滞后性和间接性,这削弱了道德规则和规范的效力,稳定而内在的德性可以弥补这一缺陷,也能保证现有的伦理道德规范和规则的实行。德性的实践品性、人与人的关系和人与自然的关系的统一性决定了在环境伦理学中德性的现实性。立足于德性观察和理解问题,有利于环境伦理学的建构,也有助于实现环境伦理学的最终目标。

Understanding Environmental Ethics in Perspective of Morality

Environmental Ethic is an applied ethics, it has the common characters of general ethics, also has its particularity. Nature, the most direct object of environmental ethics, owns its life like human being. The life character of nature is the most important cause that human beings give their moral feeling and morality to nature. The influence of people's environmental behavior and attitude shows indirection and hysteresis, which weakens the effect of moral regulations and norms. The stable and internal morality can remedy it, and can ensure moral regulations and norms becoming true. Morality's actuality is decided by morality's practicality and unity between the man-man relationship and the man-nature relationship. It is beneficial to constructing of environmental ethics and reaching the final aims of environmental ethics if we can view and understand problems on the basis of morality.