A Study On The Thoughts Of Taoist Ecological Ethics

As the rapid development of human civilization and economic modernization,natural resources and ecological environment are facing the pressure that we have never encountered before,and the global environmental issue is a severe challenge.Under this social and environmental background,the rise and development of ecological ethics has its profound and objective reasons.Taoist ecological ethnics is an important component of Taoism doctrines,and it is proposed and developed from aspect of ecological ethics.The ecological ethics inherited from the Taoism's theoretical framework that believes everything is originated from “tao”,“three qi”,“five xing”,and “eight trigrams”.The main content contains “naturalness of Taoist doctrines”,“harmony between nature and human”,“heaven and earth as parents”,“worshiping tao and virtue”,“self-regulated through qing and xu”,“protecting the lives and believing in ahimsa”.Taoist ecological ethnics not only addresses the relationship between human and nature from the aspect of natural philosophy,but also proposes many important opinions and suggestions as regard to the relationship between human and nature in the real life,which provides a strong support for the theoretical framework of Taoist ecological ethnics.The living wisdom of Taoist ecological ethnics demonstrates the law of human living with the world around them,which cultivates beliefs of kindness and humanistic concerns,and the responsibility to protect ecological environment.The ecological environment is a sequential unity,and human can never totally understand the profound mystery and laws of the changes and development of universe.Therefore,people should consciously follow the rule of nature's development,respect and protect nature,and seek harmony while living in the natural ecological environment.Taoist ecological ethnics reveals the Taoist principle as regard to the issue of handling the relationship between human and nature,and it actively applies the beliefs of Taoist ecological ethnics to the real life.Nowadays,the wisdom of ecological ethnics in Taoist culture is demonstrating its crucial ecological and ethical value.