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Examine The Environmental Human Rights From The Dimension Of Ethics

Posted on:2011-08-28Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L DingFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155330332965655Subject:Ethics
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Environment is the carrier of human existence and society development. Human rights is the protection of being human rights discourse in the process of civilization. The environmental crisis is a threat to human survival and human dignity which makes environmental human rights quickly rise during the development course of human society. Though it just seems a matter of rights of the people, environmental human rights is a developmental problem about the imbalance of man and nature and the imbalance between. The economy benefit value, man is the subject and nature is the object, has led to the alienation of the development and global spread of environment crisis, while the differences of the economic-oriented development has a direct impact on people who have different aspirations and advocates of environmental rights and interests in dealing with environmental matters . At the same time, the unlimited of the environmental crisis and the doubtless of economic development have decided the duration of environmental crisis. And in the matter of the measures to the environmental problems, the discordance between the environmental rights and obligations have inevitable brought about the infringement act on environment human rights. Moreover, some problems, such as the conflicts among the characteristics of environmental resources, economic rationality and environmental rights and social injustice, etc, which has not only exacerbated the deepening of environmental human rights violations, have not only exacerbated the deepening of environmental human rights violations, but also threaten the development of human society in the future.Human society is an ethical world which is the trinity of environment, ethics and society. It must be interpreted and analyzed the ethical dimension, the environmental human rights claims can be implemented radically. Environmental human rights is caused from the misunderstanding on the position that development is to constantly meet human's desire in the process of human development, which enriched human material greatly and concomitantly led to environmental crisis and damaged the foundation of human survival, deepen the contradiction between people on contention environment and it would be trigger the anxiety of dispelling the significance of man as human. It is the ethical order to build up the human society, sustain and develop it in the ethical world. Nowadays the history of the only"human macro-ethics"is follow and independent in the environment to be the history of man as man. Only with the rational ought and justice-oriented of ethics to deal with the relationships among people can environmental human rights be perfect. The ethical dimension of environmental human rights could make people sets from the angle of ontology and moral conduct making person become one of people to recerse the direction of development, examining the cultural value and raison d'ere in human society. Environmental ethics as an independent branch of ethics could restoring the domination position to natural environment that reflecting the relation among people, nature and human, recognizing human world——the world one as a man, a culture world, relying on the human intellectual, also relying on the living environment. Everyone needs environmental human rights. But only rely on the justice principle which help initial people created the society where they mutual recognition to be recognized as"class", promoting the development of human society can the interests relationship between individual and organizations be adjusted. Only environmental justice can get rid of the universality pure theory pavilion that everyone has environmental rights, both to take consideration to the sovereign state of human right and the particularity of cultural background. And from the root to persuade people to assume the obligation consciously to ensuring other can enjoy the environmental rights, defending the maximal possibility of man's freedom development, maintaining his own and other's humanity effectively, achieving their happy life.
Keywords/Search Tags:Human rights, Environmental human rights, Ethics, Justice
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