The Contemporary Value Of The Taoist Ecological Ethics

At present, the global ecological crisis seriously threatened the survival of mankind. People have to engage in introspection, thinking strategies and a way out, seeking to find the rescue spiritual resousces. People have to look into the ancient easten wisdom, especially China’s tradional culture Taoism, which is rich in ecological ethics, is rediscovered by the world, and given the world meaning. To explore the Taoist ecological ethics, can provide important theoretical support for the scientific concept of development, which is our modernizational guding ideology, and it will help us to better solve the ecological problems, on order to better promote the modernization process.The article includes the following three parts:The first part:Ecological ethics and the rich connotation of Taoist Ecological Ethics. The article first interpretate the ecological ethics, includes its concepts main content and significance. Next, it explores the background and main content of Taoism, especially dig its rich ecological ethics, then, with today’s vision, objectively evaluated the Taoism, which was generated during the agricultural civilization, points out its inevitable limitations, so we may have a more comprehensive and objective understanding of it, and so we can analysis its universal contemporary value, which deserving us to learn from.The second part:Eco-ethics dilemmas in China’s modernization. The article firstly tell us that the process of modernization has brought us huge material wealth, but also made us facing extremely challenging population resourses and environmrntal issues, and points out that it has related with the lack of ecological ethics. So the article then analyzes the reasons for the ecological ethics’lack, such as economic benefits drivers, weak understanding of ecological problems and insufficient construction of ecological ethics’institution and so sn. And once again points out the serious consequences duing to the lack of ecological ethics, indicating the importance of ecological ethics.The three part:The contemporary values of the Taoist Ecological Ethics. The article firstly discusses the positive significance of the Taoist ecological ethics, then concretely analysis its theretical significance, that is, it can provide ideological and theoretical support for our socialist modernization guiding ideology, the scientific concept of development, such as the relationship between Taoist "competence" and development;"contentment" and sustainable development. Finally foothold on the practice guidance for the modernization. we should learn from its ideological essence, to make up for the lack of our ecological ethics, and to guide our modernization.Such as ecological moral education changes in consumption patterns and adhere to the eco-justice、innovative development, in order to better promote our country’s socialist modernization.