On Mencius's Environmental Philosophy

The role of human beings in nature has been constantly changing,but what remains unchanged is the fact that people's survival or development cannot be separated from the surrounding natural environment.In ancient times,people realized the importance of protecting the natural environment,began to think about the current environment and its relevance to future sustainable development,and tried to redefine the identity,rights and obligations and responsibilities of people in the natural system.As a representative scholar of Confucianism,Mencius' s environmental philosophical thoughts were deeply influenced by ancient philosophers,especially on the basis of inheriting Confucius' s "benevolence",and taking the essence of his "sexual good theory",and then derived from "goodness".The "sincere" attitude treats everything in nature.Mencius also integrated the social life and his own philosophical research in the context of his time.From a new perspective,he broke the inherent environmental philosophical thoughts,through the combination of human behavior practice and ideology and morality.The way is to make ethical arrangements for all things in nature.Compared with the past animals and plants and vegetation,the environmental protection targets cover forests and water conservancy,and expand the scope of environmental protection to ensure the necessary living resources for social production and life.Mencius' s idea of protecting the ecological environment has both the appeal of the "respect for the people and the love of the people" and the "harmony",as well as the specific "frugality" protection measures.It not only advocates solving the environmental problems that have occurred but also needs to be prepared for the rainy day.Raise" prevention.Although the characteristics of its environmental philosophy are bound by religion,it involves unique ideas such as aesthetics,equality,and sustainable development.These are rare in the context of ancient authoritarian society.Mencius' s philosophy of environmental philosophy protection not only emphasizes the practical utility of reality,but also pays attention to aesthetics.It is not a blind pursuit of results,but a beautiful yearning for art in the process of achieving goals.Its personal view of nature,environmental protection,environmental protection,environmental protection and environmental philosophy cover human nature,society and nature.This kind of environmental awareness forms a ritual norm and taboo,so that the harm of the human environment to the natural environment during activities is controlled within the safe range,and the human comfort cannot be sacrificed at the expense of the environment.The harmonious symbiosis and sustainable development of Mencius' s environmental philosophy has a positive protective significance for the ancient Chinese ecological environment.For the construction of ecological civilization in China at this stage,to deal with serious ecological crisis,to carry out reasonable environmental protection,and to guide the correct value orientation.There are extremely important experiences for reference and reference.