Philosophical Analysis On The Chinese Ancient Union Of Nature And Man

As a philosophical system with long history, the Union of nature and man involves many fields such as philosophy, ethics, history, arts, environmental science and so on, and it attracts many scholars to research. At the end of last century, for the contradictory relationship between man and nature, philosophers try to think over the relationship between man and nature. Meanwhile, the Union of nature and man contains the research of relationship between man and nature, and holds the points that "human and nature should be one union", "human and nature should intercourse", therefore, it was looked as a good solution for modern environment problems, and was paid more attention by scholars throughout the world at once.From the develop-trace of the Union of Nature and Man we can see that it had different content in different times or for different representation. It can be summarized to be: Man are part of Nature; Nature has general laws that Man must obey; Human natures are just the Nature laws and morals principle are identical to the nature laws; Man's ideal is the harmony between the Nature and Man. This thought affected the social development during ancient and modern times of China, however, it can't be used to solve today's environment problems because that it has no strict demonstration or logical prerequisite of subjection-objection. According this, the thesis broadens the content of the Union of Nature and Man, and pointed that it should be built on full understand on nature and man, acknowledge nature's inherent value, definite man's responsibility to nature, then stress difference in unit and unit in difference. On the basis of it, the Union of Nature and Man world outlook is set up, which may be useful to transform Man's concept of environment and morality, and to promote perfect rules and international collaboration, and to set up right development view, and finally realize the harmony between nature and man.