Eco-ethic Thought In Ancient China And Its Contemporary Value

The process of human survival and development is the process of human’s impact onnature and human’s interference in nature. In recent years, environmental pollution andecosystem unbalance problems which threaten the survival and development of human beingsare becoming increasingly serious. Facing with ecological problems, our human beings mustfind out some effective measures to solve them. It is not only our born ability, but also therational consideration of human beings. For a long time, the concept of nature reformationand conquer nature leads human a wrong way to explore even plunder nature excessively.Therefore, the balance of ecosystem is broke and the nature order is forced to be disorder.What’s worse, the industrial waste and poisonous gases released from factories break thevirtuous circle of ecosystem, thus aggravate the unbalance of ecosystem, form severeenvironmental problems and influence human life deeply. These are the reasons whysustainable development strategy can not carry out effectively and ecological crisis becomesincreasingly serious. During the process of finding ways to solve ecological problems, thepower of morality is added to adjust the relationship between human and nature, thus a newethical thought is put forward. If we want to create a new theory, we must find its ideologicalbasis and cultural connotation. The aim to find out the basis of eco-ethic thought is to get thesupport of its historical tradition. So it is not hard to find out that ecological ethics intraditional China is worthy to study. The basic spirit and value orientation of Confucian,Buddhism and Taoism are in accordance with eco-ethic thought.The thesis consists of6parts. The first part is introduction, it introduces background andmeaning of the research, overseas and domestic research status, research technique and itsfeasibility analysis. The second part is the wisdom of ethics ecology, it mainly introduces theeco-ethic thought, the sustainable development concept of Confucian, Buddhism and Taoismand the influence of ancient eco-ethic thought and contemporary sustainable developmentconcept. The third part is the current situation of the contemporary ecological ethics.One-sided view of nature leads to the opposition of human and nature, one-sided view ofinterests leads to environmental degradation, one-sided method of development leads to theexist of the environmental problems. This part also combines with current environmental problems. The forth part is the contemporary value of Confucian, Buddhism and Taoism, itmainly introduces its core thought and value—“Unity of Heaven and Man” in Confucian,“concepts of doing nothing as nature itself” in Taoism and “everything is equal” in Buddhism,their contemporary value and influence on sustainable development concept. Using eco-ethicthought to solve environmental and ecological problems is the core part of the whole thesis.The fifth part is the conclusion.