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The Realistic Look Of The Relations Of Man And Nature - Of "anthropocentrism" And Contemporary Environmental Issues

Posted on:2002-04-08Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y X WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2190360032450278Subject:Philosophy of science and technology
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The relation between humanity and natural is a question always being discissed.With thesurprising development of science and technology splendid material civiliZation has been broughtabout and meanwhile a serials of questions have being produced:population explosion,vegetationdestroy,natural resources exhaustion,environment pollution,crisis of ecology and so on. It isseverely threatening mankind's sustained survive and development. This makes it urgent for us tointrospect the relation between humanity and natural again and it is concerned in this paper.This paper is composed of three parts. The first part outlines the present situation discussedabout the relation between humanity and natural. "no anthropocentrism" contribute ecology crisisto"anthropocentrism" and try to prevent natural destroy by acknowledging natural's "objectivevalue","moral rights" and so on。"anthropocentrism" think environment crisis has nothing todo with itself and put forward as a valuable principle anthropocentrism can't be transcended。Afterreviewing these two theories, I point out the root of ecology crisis can't be generally outlinedonly by"agreeing"or"opposing"anthropocentrism and this as a background enlightens threadof thought for later parts。The second part concerns causes of environment destroy。In this part, I mainly analyze three principal roots。They comprise root about theory ofknowledge, society root and civilization value root。In this foundation, I prospect several broadvisions of harmony between humanity and natural in the last part。Finally, I propose unfair andmankind。Only in the communism society can humanity and natural accomplish real hannony。...
Keywords/Search Tags:Humanity and Natural, Anthropocentrism, ecology crisis
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