Comparison Between Traditional Chinese And Western Environmental Ethics

Since the industrial civilization, mankind has created the unprecedented material wealth, but also brought the environmental problem. In order to solve the problem of the ecological environment and promote harmony between human and nature, the notion, "harmony between man and nature" prevailing in ancient china, has become the hot spots concerned by Chinese and foreign scholars and researchers. Many scholars pointed out that the use of traditional Chinese culture, "harmony between man and nature", can help people build up the scientific concept of development and solve the conflict between human and nature during the development.Trace back to the development of the relation between human and environment in the Occident and china, we can find that it is different between different representatives in different times , as a whole it can be summed up as: In the sense of nature of Modern Western, the relationship between man and nature awareness adhere to the "subject-object dichotomy", Western emphasis on the opposition side, the transformation of nature and to conquer, The development of rationalism which is support by the sense of nature emphasis the conquest of the natural makes Western society into the materialism, scientism. Nevertheless Chinese philosophy stresses "harmony between man and nature" and not traits the humanity and nature as a conformable relationship not hostility, and harmony to the highest ideals. Comparing the understanding of understanding of intrinsic value on nature between Chinese and Western Environmental Ethics, China's ancient environmental ethics builds on the basis of holism, recognizing the intrinsic value of nature, but the west could not eschew the subject-object dichotomy. It inherited the modern Western science and rational analysis, and the harmony of nature in a rational analysis based integrates. Separate the intrinsic value of nature and the interests and values of human of, and against each other. The differences between Chinese and Western Environmental Ethics in practice are as follows: in the West from the development of the natural rights to the natural rights awareness, it is a long process. The environmental protection system in the west experienced a market economy and industrial civilization in the global expansion of the scope of the situation, ecology of modern scientific theories on the premise of the analysis. Environmental protection laws and regulations gradually penetrate into production, economic, living and other field. The system of environmental protection in ancient Chinese occurred earlier. It occurred on the basis of "harmony between man and nature". These concepts and the practices of law safeguard China's ecological environment effectively. However, it was scanty of an in-depth study on scientific theory as a basisThe traditions of Chinese and Western are reasonable. Both of them deserved inherit and. The two sides both have disadvantages and can not be used to directly solve the current crisis environment. It requires that we absorb the valuable parts to establish a new, modern "harmony between man and nature"; between man and nature as a whole on the overall values; the ecological and science concept of practice.Under the sufficient reorganization on the nature and humanity ,we should admit the intrinsic value of nature, confirm that people are responsible for the natural, and on that basis; Suring people are responsible for the natural, and on that basis, establish the concept of natural harmony between man and nature, in order to fundamentally transform people's environmental awareness and moral values, to promote and improve the system of international collaboration, establishment of the correct concept of development, to achieve harmony between man and nature of the symbiotic finally...