Analysis And Expansion Of The Ralston's Natural Experience

Traditional ethics regards nature as resource that satisfies the material desires of human beings, which leads to ecological crisis. To walk out of crisis, the original meaning of nature must be re-experienced. The original meaning of nature is an inartificial natural state. Before modern times, human beings were in a state of natural existence. The original meaning of nature could be experienced in daily life and manufacturing. Since modern times began, human beings have gradually walked on a road of technical existence. The distance between human beings and nature are further and further. The original meaning of nature is more and more indifferent and the native relationship between human beings themselves and nature is forgotten. Ralston told us through his personal experiences, that we should re-experience the native relationship between nature and ourselves in the wild, and experience the nature's unity of space integrity and time course.Natural experience has its character of space. The expansion in space enables human beings'experience to exist in nature and society. In natural environment, human beings can experience tangible and material, intangible and spiritual continuity between themselves and the surrounding environment. In society, it can also be experienced that human beings cannot live without society, but they also need wildness. The real human experience activities are all conducted on the social boundary. Natural experience has its character of time course. The continuity in time course offers the experience the character of instant. Through the contact with Precambrian rocks, Ralston instantly experienced that he was one of the minded descendants of that rock. Meanwhile, experience also has its character of nature. Before human being existed, it was the incubation period of experience. Experience came to have its genuine historical and time course after human beings existed. Emotional experience is also the connotation of human beings'natural experience. Discontinuity and continuity, these two natural emotions existed when human beings encounter nature. The former is integrated into the latter.Human beings conduct technical practices, social practices and ethical practices on the basis of natural experience. In the process of technical practices, there are unity and opposition of techniques and natural experience; in the process of social practices, the ecological social relationship among human beings has its characters of time continuity, space expansion, network structure of concentric circles and historical succession. This is the social environment in which human beings live. Human beings are conducting practice on the basis of experience in this environment. But sometimes, there are no differences between experience and practice. The two coexist in one symbiotic system; in the process of ethnical practices, we should understand to respect the existence which is completely different from us. There is an obligation to protect other species to perch in a state of poetry in the wild.