Study On John B.Cobb’s Ecological Ethics Thought

John B. Cobb,Jr. is a famous theologian, philosopher of process, thinker of constructive postmodernism in the world. Due to the Santa Barbara spill and the criticize from Lynn.White about Christianity is historical and cultural roots of the environmental crisis, he began to focus on environmental issues and sustainable human development in 1969. Cobb aims at rediscovering the nature, understanding nature, pursuing the common welfare, and realizing the liberation of the whole life including man and nature, which is embodied in his ecological philosophy thought,ecological theology thought and ecological ethics thought. And this purpose makes his thoughts in logic and content constitute more complete.Cobb reinterpreted the Christianity and criticized the traditional Almighty God view with idol worship. He believed that God is in the process of the formation of the universe aimed that all existence even more prosperous. In his view,this can bring the ecological view into human practice. Cobb’s ecological ethics are based on Alfred North Whitehead’s process philosophy. In epistemology,he points that the mainstream of modern philosophy with absolute line of knowledge of subjective idealism and excessive abstraction of the research method to understand the world fall into "misplaced concreteness fallacy". In ontology, Cobb insists all things exist in the form of event. In axiology, he insists nature has a hierarchy of value system, that all things have intrinsic value, people’s intrinsic value is higher, but only God has absolute value.Cobb’s ecological ethics is a distinctive ecological ethics approach. He overcomes the view of dualism and integrate the views from Western, Oriental. Marxism, and the organic together. He tried to reconstruct the ecological ethics and ecological civilization which involved the care about the common well-being in the perspective of ecology and the only love.On the other hand, Cobb proposed a lot of ecological practice, especially recently proposed the "hope of ecological civilization in China" and "don’t learn the United States to build ecological civilization" proposition, which can draw lessons to he construction of ecological civilization in China.