On The Ecological Philosophy Thoughts Of Shigeru Iwasa

Shigeru Iwasa is one of the famous Japanese ecological philosophers. Based on theresearch on the environment problems in those developed countries like Japan, he combinesenvironmental protection with ecological thought of Marxism, which brings about his ownecological philosophy thought.The ecological philosophy thought of Shigeru Iwasa is reflected on the relationshipbetween man and nature. It emphasizes the coexistence of human and nature. When comingto the question of the relationship between human and nature, he advocates the ecologicalvalues of going from the standpoint of man. The standpoint of man mentioned is differentfrom anthropocentrism, which enrich the content of the subject on anthropocentrism andnon-anthropocentrism. As to the question of maintaining the relationship between man andnature, he supports the ecological ethics which is based on the view of the society, andopposes to discuss the ethical issue between man and nature abstractly disregarding thesocial relationship between human beings. From what is mentioned above, he brings forwardthe idea that the core of ecological ethics is the relationship between man and nature basedon the relationship between human beings. When the relationship between man and nature isbroken, he claims that the economical activities of human beings are to be blamed, and thefundamental source is the capital logic. In this sense, completely getting rid of the capitallogic is the foundation of environmental problem solving. That is to say, the construction ofecological socialism which abolishes the capital logic is the point.This article not only carries on a deep research but also gives an evaluative discourse onecological philosophy thoughts of Shigeru Iwasa. At the same time, it gives somesuggestions and advices on the construction of ecological civilization in China.