Approaches To Issues Of Natural Value

Ecology is an urgent issue in the process of human development. The western environmental moralists are seeking theoretical basis out of 'natural value' to evoke the respect of nature and trying to make the concept of 'one earth' deeply rooted in people's heart. China, a great rising socialist nation, is undergoing building of a well-off society in all-round way. Facing this great challenge, instead of following the lead of 'polluting first, managing later on' in capitalist countries, China insists on a scientific outlook of people-oriented, comprehensive, balanced and sustainable and stick to the ecological ethic of 'harmony between human being and the nature'.As a guideline of Chinese modernization, Marxism has revealed its incomparable superiority in environmental ethic theory. In this paper, the theory of 'value of nature' on practice is raised basing on criticizing two main sects of environmental ethics (anthropocentrism and non-anthropocentrism). Value of nature in anthropocentrism is based on mechanical views of nature which advocates the instrumental value, considering the realization of value of nature stems from the needs of self-interest of human being as "instrumental value", while in non-anthropocentrism, nature is regarded as an organic entirety, with the characteristic of 'prospective' and 'purposive', and realizes its intrinsic value by confirming the its subjectivity. Value of nature in Marxism is a unitive value of nature of human being and nature which says 'human being belongs to the nature while the nature belongs to human being'. Value of nature is a category of relation which is neither the essential attributes of nature nor the results of subjective fabricating. It came from practical activity and was developing with it. Practice is the resource and only way of nature value, which is to say, value of nature is praxis essentially. By means of practice, objectification of subject and subjectivation of object is united. In this way, the problems of anthropocentrism and non-anthropocentrism are overcome. It's of prospectiveness and predictability providing great theoretical support for the construction of Chinese socialistic ecology.