All Things Are One - I, As The Domain Of Man And Nature

Nowadays, global ecological crisis arouses the rise and development of the natural concept of ecological ethics. During the study of ecological ethics, in order to better demonstrate the legality of the existence of ecological ethics, people trace the thought source for demonstration from the ancient traditional culture. Chinese Lao Zi's thought about "Tao" and "Tao's rules on nature" arouses Chinese and foreign thinkers' attention, who interprate "Tao" and "Tao's rules on nature" in different versions. In the interpretation, people regard "Tao" and "nature" as the body, but regard man as a part of the nature, which misreads Lao Zi's thought. The paper tries to reinterprate the thought of Tao from the perspective of Lao Zi's "all things as a whole", which can make us grasp the Lao Zi's concept on the relationship of man and nature appropriately, and then provides theoretical basis from the point of Chinese traditional culture for the legality of the existence of ecological ethics.The paper takes the basis of Lao Zi's thought-—the Tao as the point of departure, interprets the original meaning of the Tao, that is, the ultimate realm of mutual promotion between man and nature, and analyses the relationship between man and nature. From the perspective of Lao Zi, man and nature creates each other in the Tao. Man cultivates himself as cultivating the nature. Man and nature are united in essence. Human nature is the nature that man is merged into the Tao, not the natural property of pure human beings. Man and nature are merged in the Tao. Man exists for himself is just for the existence of the nature. Man exists for the nature is just for the existence of himself .The identical Ultimate realm can be realized by caring nature and man himself. Ecological crisis is the alienation phenomena after nature is separated from the Tao, and the root of the alienation is the alienation of the human nature after man is separated from the Tao. Since man and nature are opposite after separated from the Tao, the existence of man's true self is definitely lost, when man is outside the Tao, and man and nature aren't merged with each other.Regarding Lao Zi's Tao as ecological ethical concept on the basis of universal ontology, is the superficial interpretation of Lao Zi's ecological ethics, and cannot solve the basic theoretical issue on ecological ethics. The significance of ecological ethics in Lao Zi's thought can be really interpreted only by grasping the life meaning of human beings in Lao Zi's thought. Finally, the paper illustrates how man can keep truly harmonious relationship with the nature by using Lao Zi's thought. The inspiration of Lao Zi's thought lies in: disintegrate modernization by getting rid of a variety of opposite ideologies between man and nature, construct the integrated concept between man and nature, which can guarantee the harmonious development and joint evolvement of man and nature.