The Humanistic Concern and Its Socio-Spatial Distribution of Modern Environmental Ethic

The global ecological crisis of twenty-first Century has sounded the alarm for human beings. The developed area as well as developing country realized that ecoenvironment deterioration would take a deadly toll from us. Therefore, they made various laws and regulations to protect the ecological environment and natural resources, and also began to seek for a unity where human can live in harmony with nature. Under this circumstance, environmental ethics, which refers to the ethic relationship between people and the ecological environment, emerge as the times require. As based on axiology, the environmental ethics research carries a mission to affirm intrinsic value of human and transformation value of nature equally. Whereas man has the moral obligation to care about the nature which is an indispensable member of the life union, the intrinsic value of human is nontransferable and also unnecessary. We are not supposed to marginalize the ethics concern of human just because we are conscious of care for nature. Therefore, this study tried to illuminate the essence of the humanistic concern and its socio-spatial distribution of modern environmental ethic. Then the study analyzed the necessity of humanistic concern in environmental ethic research, and draw our attention that how important to pay attention to the socio-spatial distribution of ethic concern. Finally, the paper discussed two kinds of theories and realistic paths of ethic concern in specific environmental practice

Law-Based Administration: The Key to Building a Rule of Law Government

Law-based administration is a focal point as well as a difficult point in the implementation of the fundamental principle of governing the country according to the law; it is also a key point in the construction of a rule of law government. For administrative organs at all levels, properly practicing law-based administration is not only an inevitable requirement of the development of socialist democracy and leadership by the people but also a prerequisite to and basis of the building of a rule of law government and a harmonious society

Theoretical Analysis of “Eco-Man” in Sight of Ecological Civilization

The emergence of a new sort of civilization—ecological civilization, is definitely becoming the historical inevitability symbolizing that human beings have stepped into the era of ecological civilization. As a totally brand new type of civilization, ecological civilization is also in need of a new subject carrier—eco-man. Consequently, the development of ecological civilization is accelerating the establishment of the new type eco-man with personality model. This paper defines the concept and characteristics of “eco-man”. The settlement of “eco-man” theory has significant theoretical importance and practical meaning, and it’s especially important and urgent to establish “eco-man” in face of current situation

The Coupling Operation of Public Culture and Ecological Culture

At present, in the ecological civilization construction and public cultural construction in full swing, the reality of how to further promote the development of a subject urgently to be solved in the present. This paper argues that the root cause of the difficulties in this reality is that in the core areas of ecological culture and ecological civilization construction wide system is an important public cultural respectively in two very different departments (environmental protection department and cultural department), constrained by the system mechanism caused by the dualistic development now the state is the root cause of the current resistance. Therefore, only when both belong to the culture of the deep core of organic coupling and melting penetration can get great progress in the changed in the new period

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Proof of Natural Intrinsic Value

The famous American environmental ethicist Holmes Rolston III pointed out that the old ethics emphasized only one species’ welfare; the new ethics must pay attention to the welfare of life including millions of species that make up the earth’s evolution. In the past, human beings were the only species that got moral treatment; they only acted in accordance with their own interests, and dealt with other things in their own interests; new ethics increased the respect for all species. Nature has intrinsic value that is the logical starting point to broaden the people’s moral care to nature. So the theory is the core purport of unanthrocentrism of environmental ethics. Nature not only has instrumental value, but also has the intrinsic value of the objective. In this regard, Rolston and Marx’s points of natural value have too many of the same or similarities. In the past, the academic understanding of the relative views of Rolston and Marx is not comprehensive, at least not dialectics. Like all the past materialism, Marx acknowledged that the natural alienation is pre-existence, systematization, development of its own. In a word, the objectivity of natural features is admitted. Rolston tends to be more consistent with Marx’s views. In his viewpoint, nature has not only the tool value, but also has the inherent or congenital value, namely the intrinsic value. Non-human nature has intrinsic value that is also the focus of philosophical debate in recent years. To study the correspondence of Rolston and Marx’s view of natural value, the paper contributes to provide theoretical support for natural intrinsic value, to help the people know the importance of human and nature harmony and improve the people’s enthusiasm of nature conservation, advantageous to actualize ecological civilization and promote harmonical development of mankind and nature

Happiness View in Ecological Civilization Age

With the advent of ecological civilization age, we are left with no choice but to redefine the values and principles of happiness that underlie our relationship with the nature. Over the course of history, we can easily find that there have been great changes in our lifestyles and the concept of happiness, and we have made tremendous progress in economic growth and material wealth. These changes have improved the quality of people’s life for some, but have decreased it for others. We also have lifestyles which have detrimentally affected our surrounding natural environment. With the development of global industrialization, today, ecological crisis has become a global crisis that made people woke up from industrial civilization age sense of achievement, calling upon the arrival of the ecological civilization age. The concept of happiness is people's outlook on life and world view to the problem of happiness, view on happiness is for guidance and motivation. Happiness is the unity of subjective and objective, the unity of logic and history. The concept of ecological happiness is a new idea of evolution of Chinese and western philosophical views on happiness and it are a reflection of the characteristics of our times. Ecological civilization age decided to people's view on happiness is ecological happiness view. First, ecological happiness is a kind of real happiness which is based on the scientific outlook on development and kind of human groups shared happiness. Second, Ecological happiness is a kind of happiness which based on human overall survival benefit and ecological rational belief. Finally, ecological happiness is a kind of happiness which reflects the intergenerational justice of human long-term sustainable happiness

From “How to Teach” to “How to Learn”

Dialectics of Nature, a compulsory course for science and engineering postgraduate students, “service-oriented” teachers should how to teach, and students should how to learn, which are two bidirectional dialectical core units on Dialectics of Nature to achieve a fundamental teaching purpose