On The Moral Agent View Of Rolston's Environmental Ethics

Moral agent, the word has a long history in the history of western philosophy. In the different research field, the specific meaning is different. In this professional environmental ethics research direction, the word is frequently appeared in some academic books and literature, especially enjoys name of father of the environment ethics western environment ethicers——Holmes Rolston, in his book《environmental ethics》, created a series of ideas about moral agent.This paper is divided into three main parts, the first part is mainly to define the word——moral agent, according to define the moral agent domestic most works as "morally agent" translate this translation puts forward that moral agent should understand as the moral behavior body more appropriate for behavior body and nature, the relationship is not merely agent and don't agency relationship, more is refers to the humanity to nature, the environmental obligations and responsibilities, namely as a moral judgment, moral choice for the realization of the human, ability the intrinsic value of nature, environment, have the obligation to consciously assume the responsibility for its; The second part is summarized and concludes the Holmes Rolston's moral agent thought contents, including the obligation of moral agent, respectively from the moral individual life, to the organic agent biological and ecological obligations the three perspective, also includes a moral obligation to perform the way (agent of environmental protection, clean production and poetic perched) and human as the necessity and objectivity moral agent; The third part is mainly aimed at the moral agent, and points out that the moral evaluation ideology is its nature center thought agent is one of the important component of socialism, integrating theory with practice at the same time, it points out the limitation of moral agent thought——theory predicament and practical difficulties.