Ecological Concept Of Value And "Ecological Transformation" Of Contemporary Outlook On Life

Ecological concept of value results from man s rethinking over extremely anthropocentric values in the times of ecological crisis since 1950s, and continuous advancement of scientific knowledge and evaluation concerning relationship between man and nature. In the process of its development, ecoethics has posed the basic content of ecological conception of value--natural ecological concept of value, which refers to values of harmonious developmentbetween man and nature. Ecological philosophy has furnished philosophically ecological conception of values with a groundwork of Weltanschauung, and has developed its content to general ecological concept of values, i.e. value principle about objects and their environment. Since it is the value of this times, ecological concept of value is bound to impact contemporary outlook on life theoretically and practically. Via ecological concept of value, we inspect contemporary outlook on life and find its ecological default and ecological unbalance , of which, the former is the spiritual origin of ecological crisis, while the latter the internal root of modern spiritual crisis. Ecological default and ecological unbalance , as well as ecological crisis and spiritual crisis, are interrelated and interact on each other. Therefore, to free from the two contemporary crisises in the face of man today, we must fulfill an ecological transformation of contemporary outlook on life, changing subjugating nature into revering nature, materialism into post-materialism, and ego-oriented life philosophy into the one ego-oriented as well as human-oriented. At the same time, it is necessary to establish and advocate ecologically-transformed life philosophy, and inherit and carry forward ecological wisdom of traditional life philosophy.This dissertation is divided into three parts. The first part analyzes the background of the age, in which ecological concept of value produced, and scientific base, on which it is put forward, and clarifies connotations: natural ecological concept of value and general ecological concept of value. Through examining the contemporary outlook on life by ecological conception of values, the second part indicates that there is in contemporary outlook on life the common source for ecological crisis and spiritual crisis. In the last part, the author illuminate that ecological transformation of contemporary outlook on life is an inevitable historical course. Two theories of ecologically-transformed life philosophy and the ecological wisdom in traditional life philosophy, which are of consequence in the historical course, are also summarized in this part.