Confucian Road Ecological Moral Education Thought

Since twentieth century, the applying of neo-technology brings altitudinal material civilization. However, people are facing the series of ecological problems at the same time, such as resource, energy and population. More and more rigorous ecological problems arouse people's much attention. Nation, organization and individual try best to research some solutions, one of which exclusively launches ecological morality education.Some western scholars commit continuously themselves to approach of solution, and bring forward a lot of correlative views and theories of ecological morality education. However, ecology problems are still very rigorous at present. Then many ideologists begin to lay stress on Chinese traditional wisdom of ecology, especially on ecological wisdom of Confucian school and Taoist school, so as to utilizing the thought of ecological morality education containing in them to conquer chronic illness of age. The article is based on carding and discussing the primary views of the thoughts of ecological morality education so as to gain some enlightenments to contemporary society and serve carrying out the ecological morality education and alleviating ecological problems.The basic views of ecological morality education of two schools of Confucian and Taoist have some identical contents: respecting nature is the starting point of ecological education, blending as well as Nature and Man is an aim of ecological education, plainness and saving are the claim and position of ecological education, Non-Extremity is the claim on methodology of ecological education. These views' consistency doesn't indicate both two schools are absolutely identical. Just the opposite, Confucian school and Taoist school express these thoughts by contents with each school's character, which consequently embody their contents' richness and diversity. Meanwhile, there are otherness in thinking orientation and concrete views. This is also a kind of embodiment of two schools' mutual replenish and intergrowth.Carding the basic views of ecological morality education's thoughts of Confucian school and Taoist school is the basis. However, if we make them bring into playing positive action and serve the correct society, we must give the correct comment. In thinking character, both two schools pay attention to integration of subject and object and whole mode of thinking, which is indicated integration of Nature and Man. But in the course of thinking, Confucian school attach much importance to perfecting human essentiality of society by way of combining doctrine of Nature with that of Man. However, Taoist school stress perfecting human essentiality of nature by means of combining doctrine of Man with doctrine of Nature. Meanwhile, in the course of realizing the aim, evolving thoughts of two schools have also strong humane inspirit and manifest different character from western humane consciousness. A sort of thought is correctly appraised without dialectic method. The thoughts of ecological morality education of Confucian school and Taoist schoolbring nature into moral regulating scope, widen moral category and connotation, and manifest a kind of human profound consideration on moral responsibility taking in course of two schools benefit also accelerating coordinating development of human, nature and society, So they show positive value, but their defects cannot also neglect. The lack of subject of ecological morality of Taoist school, to a certain extent, limits fully exertion of human subjective activity, while excessive exaggeration of subjective activity of Confucian school may result in center-humanism. Taoist school's cognition on science and technology lacks dialecticality. Ignoring and negating action of science and technology work against the development of natural science and harmonizing relations of Nature and Man. On methodology, both two schools pay excessive attention to character of opposites, which works against distinguish of Nature and Man and exerting human subjective activity.Analyzing history is for serv...