On The Science And Technology Ethics Thought Of Pre—qin Dynasty Taoism

The science and technology ethics thought of Pre—Qin Dynasty Taoism is built on the basis of the core areas of Taoist philosophy"Tao". It evolved at Chunqiu period, developed in the Period of Warring States. The science and technology ethics thought is formed following the Taoism realized and dealt with the relations between human and nature -----relationship between human and nature, relationship between human and social relations, relationship beween body and mind.The main points of the science and technology ethics thought of Pre—Qin Dynasty Taoism is technology ethics, technical moral thoughts, ecological ethics. The core point of technology ethics is"the exclusion between Technology and morals". It established a complete theoretical system technology and morals exclusivism.The technical moral thoughts of Daoism insists on technique development following the aim of"Tao controlling techniques", and realizes the development of technique and ethics into the ideal of"combining the Tao and technique". Ecological Ethics of Daoism is based on"the Tao begets all things of the world". In the view of natural morality, it formed the basic viewpoints"no relative in Tao, equality with all species". In the view of natural moral principle, it established the basic principles of"Taoistic Thought Emulates Nature, Taoist Actionless Governance". In the view of natural ethic, ecological Ethics of Taoism proposed the basic norms of"know only few desires, reverence for life"Looking at the science and technology ethics thought of Daoism from the angle of today's technological development and human progress, it has a wide range of contemporary value. First, it provides theoretic meaning to the construction of contemporary technology ethics. Technology moral thought and ecological moral thought of Daoism provided the treasured theory resources to the construction of the advanced system of contemporary technology ethics and modern ecological ethics. Second, the science and technology ethics thought of Daoism is the powful weapon to overcome the crisis in technology. Ecological moral thought of Daoism is the best way to overcome ecological crisis, the technology moral thought can resolve technological alienation.Certainly, the science and technology ethics thought of Daoism is a product of agricultural civilization, has obvious historical limitation. It lacks perfect ,rigid system of logical theory, to places too much emphasis on nature and neglect human's subjective activity, stinks too much"value logos"and lacks of"tool logos". So ,we must develop a good attitude about the science and technology ethics thought of Daoism, insist on the two viewpoints: the division of one into two ,the consolidated method of critics and heritage. We must take the essence, discard the dregs, to make the science and technology ethics thought of Daoism become to a booster of contemporary China's development on technology.