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Study On The Environmental Ethics Thought Of Eco-socialists

Posted on:2014-03-21Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L ZhuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2255330392472951Subject:Ethics
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After World War II, the Western capitalist countries have entered a period of high-speeddevelopment. With the rapid development of science and technology level, the national level ofproductivity continued to improve, increasing social wealth, the process of urbanization has alsomade rapid development. Hugely successful economically, but also the ecological crisis in theworldwide environmental crisis, a resource crisis and a population crisis as the main content. Thepresence of these crises and to deteriorate, to the human way of life has brought unprecedentedchallenges for human sounded the alarm, prompting human beings began to reflect on the ethicalrelationship between itself and the natural and tried to change the values to adjust the activities oftheir own behavior, to explore the solution of the ecological crisis, ecological socialism is in thiscontext came into being.Eco-socialism is the formation of a burgeoning ecological movement in the developedcapitalist countries in the Western socialist thought in the sixties and seventies of the20th centuryand genre, the main representative of the Ben Agger, Andre Gorz, David Pepper, William Leiss,James O’Connor, John Bellamy Foster, Saral Sarkar. Eco-socialists absorb the ideas of Marxism,Western Marxism, ecology, futurology and system theory, trying to ecology and Marxismtogether around the center of the ecological problems, as the core value of ecological benefits tothe harmonious relationship between man and nature can not only eliminate the pursuit of goals,to rethink the relationship between capitalism and socialism, to reflect on the root causes of theecological crisis, in-depth analysis of the inherent contradictions of the capitalist social structure,trying to find an ecological crisis can be achieved new road of socialism. Eco-socialistsEnvironmental Ethics, especially its advocacy of ecological values, environmental justiceconcept of building a socialist ecological civilization, to solve the ecological crisis has significantimplications.In this paper, the "eco-socialists Environmental Ethics as a research topic, and analysisThree Sources of eco-socialists Environmental Ethics, stage of development and moral principles,and representative figures from the point of view of ethics ecological values and justice andbenefit analysis and combing, review and summarize, and to find out the reasonable elements ofthe theory. Finally, according to our resources the state of the environment,use the ecologicalsocialists environmental ethics revelation of ecological civilization construction to practical guideour construction of ecological civilization.
Keywords/Search Tags:Ecological Socialism, Eco-socialists, Environmental Ethics Thought
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