Daoist Ecological and Environmental Ethics

Philosophy and Culture 25 (9):814-823 (1998)
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Abstract

Full text from the contemporary ecological ethics and conservation perspective, cut under the Taoist view of man and world, people and the environment, human and other beings between the unity, harmony and infinite openness, in an attempt to discover Taoism can provide ideas to contemporary environmentalists significance related resources. By the way your students into the way in conservation, from the depth of the body machine doctrine of eco-ethics, to try to solve the planet's ecological crisis today; and try the category in the world, developed to save material to save the conservation concept. Taoist Tao in common as human and natural order, and thus established the "Philosophical", and finally to the continuous digestion of human-centrism, to extend the ethical dimensions of the broad, rich and diverse ecosystems, which might come not eco- Ethics and the first model of ecological conservation. This article would like to proceed from a modern ecological ethical standpoint in investigating the Daoist notions of the relationship between man and heaven as well as between man and the myriad of creatures. It would also like to investigate the Daoist notion of harmony and unlimited openness in hopes of providing some pertinent material for today's environmentalist. From the Dao of "creation" to the Dao of "nuturing", an organism's ecological ethics unfolds. This process could be of some help in facing today's ecological crisis. In the real between "heaven and earth ", it seems necessary to develop an ecological perspective. This could be achieved through a Daoist and naturalist perspective, slowly eliminating a" humancentric "vision of the world. In developing an ethics and a multi-faceted ecological system, an ecological ethics and example is set

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