The Research Of The Ecoethics Of Confucianism,Taoism And Buddhism

The thesis revealed the basical points of The ecoethics of Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism(CTB). Highlights their modern values so that providing some insights to serve dealing with the relations between the man and the nature.The Summary history of the ecoethics of CTB.I ) Confucius, the founder of Confucianism, placed the conception benevolence at the very core of his thoughts, held that nobody could study without starting with benevolence. A benevolent person should love the man, that is, he should subdue oneself and return to propriety with his caring heart so as to realize the idea of making all in the heaven ascribing perfect virtue to the man himself. In order to realize this ideal, Confucius maintained that one should "respect the heaven" ,is the idea of abiding by the natural rules of ecoethics, and harbour a heart appreciating mountains and waters, and that one should practise a consumer principle of being thrift and loving the man. Here lies the basical man-oriented ecoethics which put the human being's values first and is marked by benevolence and love. Talking this heritage, the si-meng school in war period exposed such thoughts as admiring the heaven and the earth's functions of changing and nuturing, being benevolent to the people and loving things in the world, making the people be born, or live and die or lose kins without regret. These ideas have developed the main thoughts of majority Confucianists. In another school in war period headed by Xun Zi, the Confucianists exposed such ideas as differentiating the nature and the man, mastering and employing the rules of the nature, they hold that one should regard the heaven as a natural thing and then feed and master it so as to develop the man's abilities to use all the things in the world to serve the man. Here Xun Zi enhanced cherishing the mature and protecting the ecoenvironment up to the level of "the sage king's Administrtion" and protest spoiling antificially the natural resources. Here is another versionof man-oriented ecoethics based on Confucianism's benevolence. During the Han Dynasties occurred a kind of Confucian ecoethics headed by Dong Zhongshu. Herited the ecoethics of the majority Confucians. In his A Survey of Philosophical Schools in spring-autumn period, Dong Zhongshu also presented his conception of interity of heaven and man, an ecoethic thought which means by Dong's word that there are some overlapping place between heaven and man where moulded into one, sharing the common ground when there are the same, benefiting one another when they interact, living long when they act along the laws, that is acquiring the Tao. Dong decided that all in the world are bom by heaven, nurtured by the earth and developed by man. Remoulded by scholars in Song dynasty, these ideas became main principles of the ecoethics of the scholars in Song and Ming Dynasties. The scholars in Song dynasty related'benevolence'to the nature and laws of the universe, enhancing the thoughts of Confucian's benevolence to the level of the nature of the universe, pursuing the integrity of the universe and man with virtues. Zhang Zai hold that the function of heaven and the earth's nurturing all the things is benevolence, he said that heaven benefits things without exception and benevolence can cover things anywhere. Zhang proposed the famous conception that 'the living things and human beings are brotherhood' . Chen Hao propsed that benevolent person regards all things in the world as one system. Zhu Zi proposed that 'benevolent person is elite essence of all creatures in the world' . Wang Yangming and Wang Gen in Ming dynasty expounded these ideas and the scholars in Qing dynasty such as Dai Zhen and Wang Fuzhi developed those thoughts and progressively transformed the Confucian Man-oriented ecoethics under the slogan of practicing benevolence.II ) Developing from the Lao Zi and Zhuang Zi school to metaphysics in Wei and Jin dynasties. Taoism embraces profound thoughts on the ecoethics. Lao Zi, the founder of the Taoism, explicatly proposed the superma...