The Pre-Qin Ecoethics Thoughts And The Value In The Present Age

Ecological environment is the material foundation on which human civilization exists and develops. For human being who lives in it, the ecosystem environment relates greatly to the development of the human civilization. People should study the ecological environment consists of the heaven and earth, and enlighten from the study to advance the existence and development of human.Particularly after entering the mid-20th century, with the aggravating of world's environmental crisis,people who had always been grabbing without limit to the nature, start to reconsider profoundly their own perception on natural ecology. During the reflection, experts and scholars investigated various countries' history earnestly, in order to work out a more effective solution. Many of them turn to focus their attention on the pre-Qin dynasty, the origin of Chinese civilization. The rich and perfect insight and thought of the Pre-Qin dynasty scholars on environmental ethnics has set up a brilliant model for their descendants.The forming of Pre-Qin ecological ethics relates closely to the politics, economy and culture environments in that age.This article mainly discuss the background of the forming of the pre-Qin ecoethics thoughts which represented by the Confucianism, the Taoism, the Mohist School, and the Legalist school.The four schools respectively covers main ecology ethics ideological content and difference, as well as their inspiration and instruction to the contemporary society. Given observing and studying the original literature and modern research result, this article lucubrates the pre-Qin's ecoethics thoughts:"Nature and Man Unite as One","Having charity for everythings on earth","Man learn to the Nature", and so on, so as to help the modern people understanding and inhabiting the ancient Chinese civilization comprehensively, transmit it scientifically and systematically, so as to draw lessons from ancient environment thoughts, and set a sensible approach/attitude to nature and environment, and eventually realize the healthy,everlasting and harmonious development of human being and the self-existence environment.