Value Orientation Of Ecological Ethics

With the rapid development of mankind, the destruction and the interference with nature come to an uncontrolled situation. We set overlapped traps for our own. Today, the price of this pattern has appeared gradually. Depend on technical management only already has not prevent the deterioration of environment. Establishing a new scientific view of development is particularly necessary. Sustainable development theory is a starting point for ecological ethics, it also will become the basis, the driving force and the destination of ecological ethics.(一)Nature center doctrine described a new prospect about man and nature, however, whether the viewpoints it insists are right? Firstly, man's respect for nature is limited, respect of nature comes from respect of ourselves. The point that animals should be treated equally with man has no common sense. We protect for which kind of creature and what extent we protect it are decided by how extent we need it, this is a basic point. Secondly, the value in nature is value for "whom", not an imagined pure value. The existence, the property and its varieties of object should accord with the need and the measure of subject or near to. Valve of nature exists for man and uses for man. How to evaluate natural value if we abandon ourselves? Finally, live is the first important thing for us, we have no need speak fair and conscience to nature. In fact, real unjust does not exist between person and nature, but between nation and nation, race and race, man and man. Speaking "moral" and "fair" generally will cover up real unfairness and inequality in society. (二) Traditional human center doctrine insists that man is the center of the world from this doctrine came into being. In modern age, Kant put forward that person's purpose is absolute value, person makes laws for nature, thus human center doctrine was finished in principle. Although this doctrine has indivisible contact with modern times civilization, it contains an unavoidable historical limitation: It only pay attention to the ability that person conquer nature, thinking that the person's ability is infinite, this extremely method separate human from nature, making human civilization in modern times always accompany with destruction of environment.Modern human center doctrine insists that person's value and purpose is not the only reasonable thing, other creature have their own inside value also, person chooses reasonable means according to his standard. Other creature don't pursue person's purpose, so-called "the highest principle" only belongs to person himself. Through this special relationship, the individual and the whole come to agreement on basic benefits. The aim at person's health, security and long-distance development.(三)Summarize the result, it's no doubt that person is the center, while, what's the essence that ecological ethics researches? Ecological ethics brings "person and person" into "person and nature", at the same time, it discovers that the essence is interpersonal relation at the back of natural relation. This is the true difference compared with traditional ethics. First of all, it emphasizes social relation, seems social relation as the medium linking up the two aspects, its form and quality has become the key when we establish the kind and friendly relation between person and nature. The next in order, it turns "the way the world is " into "the way the world ought to be ", it refreshes the idea of subject and requires us to adjust and cooperate at a range of the world. If we can comprehend the essence of ecological ethics, sustainable development theory is the inevitable choice.(四)Sustainable development theory as a scientific theory to deal with the relationship between man and nature and that among people will change the traditional ideal thoroughly which emphasize the integration between ration and value as criteria, not only in theory but in practice to integrate the rationality of technology as tool and value, to make technology not on...