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Ecological Politics

Posted on:2002-01-14Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:M YanFull Text:PDF
GTID:2120360032455727Subject:Foreign philosophy
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Ecoloqical crises are the general crisis of the mordern civilization and political disasters since the20th century are also unprecedented.The relationship between politics and ecology is a vital problem that human beings have been always probing from acient times.This text,starting from ecology,ecological philosophy and ecological ethics,and comprehensively applying the achievements of ethology,sociobiology,modern physics and political philosophy,studies historically and sysˉtematically the relationship between human politics and natural ecoloˉgy,and tries to construct an ecological politics or an ecologicalism of political philosophy.The general train of thought is as follows: Morden sciences and philosophies tell us that human beings are the part of nature and nature is a becoming,evoluting and fluxing life-body.Human beings permanently belongs to natural history,and huˉman concious rationality and liberty are only the outgrowth of evolution of nature.Hence,human beings can not be antogonistic to nature or override nature,otherwise,it forms autocracy of human beings on naˉture.On the contrary,human beings should realize the republicanism by means of rationality and liberty as autonomy.The relationship beˉtween human beings and nature is the basis of the one among human beings.And to reform the human beings'relationship is the key to imˉprove the one between human beings and nature.Traditional political ecology is characterized by its anthropocentrism and mechanical view of nature,so they can not find a solider foundation beyond human society for the theory of liberal democracy.Instead,they are the important cause of antogonism between human-kind and nature,and in the huˉman societies.They are the theoriotical basis of autocracy of human-===================...
Keywords/Search Tags:ecology, politics, political ecology, natural constitution, ecological politics
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