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The Path To Achieve Ecological Ethics Research

Posted on:2012-10-06Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:N N LiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2215330338474299Subject:Ethics
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The way to realize modern morals follows the logic of mutuality between rights and duties, if wanting to use the rights, you must fulfil your obligations, actually, this phenomena is called'ethais of contracts', and the system info of the traditional ecology ethics is also based on this train of thought. The human being is the only moral subject and the relationship between the people and nature is attached to the relationship between human beings in anthropocentrism, which advocates human's obligations to nature is indirect duties to themselves, after considering the benefits. The realization of ecology ethics is the exchange of rights and duties between individuals. Non-anthropocentrism regards the nature as an independent moral subject and there are relations of ethic between human and nature. The realization of ecology ethics is the exchange of rights and duties between people and nature.Anthropocentrism over advocates people's subjectivity, which is regarded as the master of the nature. It denies unity-based relations between human beings and the nature, repudiates people's moral self-awareness and moral concern to the nature. Non-anthropocentrism sees nature as the basis of moral subject, which is lacking in evidences, because the nature has no main role of initiative. The nature can't exchange rights and duties with human beings and can't establish the real relations of ethic, so neither anthropocentrism and non -anthropocentrism can let the ecology ethics come true.This article is trying to break the traditional ecology ethics and find a new way to delete the mutuality. In Jonas's eyes, the relationship between people and the nature is just like it between parents and the child. It is irreversible. It is human being's duty to make the ecology ethics come true, but the virtue ethics, in ancient Greek and Chinese Confucian ethics, advocates that there is no exchange of rights and duties, and impose of moral burden in human being's moral actions and the ethics are the actualization of virtue. Both of them contribute to being out the mutuality and providing the new thought to reacquaint the way to realize ecology ethics, which is not the exchange of rights and duties. In other words, it is the responsibility. The emergence of virtue and the consciousness of morals, and there is on doubt that it has noticeable effects on the construction of ecology ethics and the answer of ecological problems.
Keywords/Search Tags:ecology ethics, ways of realization, moral self-awareness
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