Environmental Ethics Tutorial - (Revised Edition)

Author: Kuang Fuguang
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: This is a textbook specifically compiled for the public education and teaching of environmental ethics in China's ordinary higher education institutions. Considering the needs of a large number of non-environmental major teaching, this book conducts an in-depth and unique systematic research and analysis of the structure, function, characteristics, and operational mechanisms of the human survival environment system from the perspective of environmental ethics. It also systematically studies and summarizes the emergence, formation, development, attributes, functions, principles, and norms of environmental ethics and morality. From the perspective of materialist dialectics, the book argues that the "three major contradictions" debated in the field of environmental ethics both domestically and internationally are a process of development in human understanding of the relationship between humans and the survival environment system. They are contradictory yet unified and should not be opposed one-sidedly or engaged in futile debates. After comparing and studying the practical and theoretical significance of China's traditional "harmony between heaven and humanity" human-nature perspective in contemporary environmental ethics research with Western concepts, the book emphasizes its major significance in coordinating and integrating human and their survival environment system for harmonious coexistence, coexistence, and sustainable development in the 21st century. The book also conducts research from a new perspective and discusses issues such as environmental ethics education and publicity, as well as related environmental legal system construction. This textbook is not only suitable for use as a public course textbook for environmental majors in ordinary universities but is also more suitable as a compulsory or elective course textbook for non-environmental majors in environmental education. It can also be used as a textbook for environmental education and professional training for government officials at all levels. It holds certain reference value for relevant theoretical and practical workers.