Abstract in Chinese: 由于将自然理解为自然物和物理事件的集合,大多数现
代环境伦理理论都无法摆脱密尔所提出的两难困境。无论是对技术
进步的依赖,还是向着原始生活的回归,都不符合环境伦理创立的
初衷。而新兴的环境美德伦理学将自然动态地理解为意义的生成机
制。由此,自然物不仅是现成的资源,而且是意义的载体。这是一
条突破现代环境伦理困境的有效路径。同时,它与儒家的生生思想
有着实质性地共鸣。Abstract in English: Regarding the nature as a collection of natural things and physical events, the most of modern environmental ethics theory cannot get rid of the dilemma raised by Mill. Neither the dependence on the progress of technology nor the regression toward primitive life is in line with the original intention of environmental ethics. However, the environmental virtue ethics has understood the nature as the emergence of meaning. Thus, the natural world is not only available resources, but the carrier of meaning. This is an effective way to break through the modern environmental ethical dilemma. The more important is that it essentially has a Confucian resonance. [pp. 107-108