论西方现代生态伦理学的"东方转向"

西方现代生态伦理学的基本思想全然不同于传统伦理观,其吸收、借鉴东方传统文化中丰富的生态智慧,呈现出“东方转向”的趋势。这种“东方转向”是西方现代生态伦理学对造成现代生态危机的西方文化传统的批判否定之后所做的文化选择和价值转换,是对东方传统文化的丰富意蕴和价值的再发现。但它在方法论和价值取向上也存在意识决定论、以道德话语代替制度变革等局限性。所有这些都值得我们对中西文化的互动、传统与现代的撞击做深入的思考。

"Eastern Switch" in Modern Western Ecological Ethics

The basic thought of modern western ecological ethics is totally different from the traditional value of ethics. In the profound process of the ideological transformation, it demonstrates a tendency of absorbing the abundant ecological wisdom embodied in the eastern traditional culture. Such an eastern switch of the culture alternation and value transformation is a result of the critical denial of the western cultural tradition that is believed to lead to modern ecological crisis. In addition, the switch also rediscovers the implication of the eastern traditional culture. Still, there are certain limits within its methodology and value orientation such as consciousness determinism and substituting system reform with the moral discourse. Thus it is worth a profitable consideration upon the interaction between the Chinese and western culture as well as the impaction between the tradition and modernity.