| The global environmental crisis has caused people to rethink the relationship between human being and the nature, which environmental ethnics was born. During the process of constructing the environmental ethnics, many western scholars founded environmental ethnics was difficult to get rightful support from the western "subject and object dualism", while got important apocalypse from human being and the nature organic theories of Chinese tradition. Thus, some western environmental ethics scholars tried to gain major apocalypse through researching ecology wisdom of Chinese tradition. The present western sects of environmental ethnics has raised new demands for the relationship between human being and the nature by rethinking the western rational tradition and inspecting Chinese cultural tradition.With the approval of environmental ethics of ancient China by some western scholars, many environmental ethics scholars in our country has also agreed highly with ecology wisdom of Chinese tradition, and advocated to construct Chinese environmental ethnics with environmental ethics of ancient China. Chinese environmental ethics institute director Yu Mouchang has affirmed the value of environmental ethics of ancient China on the first Chinese environmental ethnics international seminar in 2004. He emphasized although environmental ethnics was first raised by the western scholars and developed in the western, China has the long historical culture and valuable national tradition, which can be the root of Chinese environmental ethnics construction.Environmental ethics of ancient China has rich theories and practice of the harmonious relationship between human being and the nature, the recognition of people has its own rationality. It may be higher than, or at least be nothing less than that of western culture, on the point of conquering the modern human environmental crisis, therefore, it becomes the focus of scholars both home and abroad inevitably. But there is still one thing that we... |