On Engels’ View Of Nature From The Perspective Of The Contemporary Philosophy Of Environmental

Engels made a penetrate research into the natural science, and carried it through philosophygeneralizing and summing up, founded a materialist and dialectical philosophy of nature.Contemporary environmental philosophy comes into being and develops in the case of theincreasingly serious environmental problems threatened the survival and development of human,carrys out a profound reflection on the relationship between man and nature, has a great influencein the academia and the reform of the natural process.Contemporary environmental philosophy mainly focus on three perspectives to explain theirown point of view and method, which are the body of nature, the value of nature and the ethics ofscience and technology, and these elements are also contained in Engels’ philosophy of nature, thecontemporary environmental philosophy provides a new angle for us to study Engels’ view ofnature, to explore the approach of solving the environmental problems of China: In the aspect ofnatural noumenon, the contemporary environmental philosophy is discussing from the rationalismontology and naturalism ontology, through this perspective we can found Engels expounded hisnatural noumenon idea from four aspects, which are the nature, people, society and the relationbetween human and nature who intermediary as the society, to a certain extent beyond thecontemporary environmental philosophy who has two opposing thoughts; In the side of naturalvalue, the contemporary environmental philosophy encloses in the “Instrumental value” and the“Intrinsic value”, Engels made a full range of discourse in the aspects of life support value,economic value and aesthetic value; In the way of ethics of science and technology, thecontemporary environmental philosophy puts forward the ethics of science and technology whichstraining for the ethics of responsibility, through the angle of this view we can not difficult to findthat Engels made a historical perspective to the ethics and morality in the first instance, on thisfoundation, he expounded the relationship between ethical and science technology, made theethical normal to the science and technology workers, made an analysis to the dissimilation ofethical and science technology which is under the condition of capitalism, realized revolutionarychange of ethical and science technology.Make a research from the perspective of the contemporary environmental philosophy not onlycan have a new understanding to the contemporary environmental philosophy and Engels’sphilosophy of nature, provided a new perspective to solve environmental problems and explore theway of modernization of socialism.