Natural ethical dignity

Author: Li Peichao
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Publish Date: 2001-09-01
Features: For thousands of years, humans have fought against nature, slaughtered species, and in the rain of blood, a series of tragic songs of life have been played. The world's rulers have also been mourning. This is a deeply calamitous ecological crisis, a resounding rebuke from nature to human arrogance! What revelations does the ecological crisis bring us? Where lies the profound root of the crisis? Where is the path to escape from the crisis? Why should we establish the ethical dignity of nature? How should we establish the normative system of ecological ethics? How can we draw on the ecological wisdom of Chinese civilization? The author of this book points out that the ecological crisis signifies a cultural crisis and a lack of concepts for humanity. To escape the crisis, while economic, legal, technological, and administrative measures are undoubtedly important, the discovery of human conscience is even more fundamental. Nature also has ethical dignity because every life possesses its intrinsic value and inherent rights. To care for life, one must take all living things as the foundation and treat nature with human ethical morality, letting the light of kindness illuminate the earth, spreading a moral sentiment among all things, and achieving reconciliation and harmony between humans and nature.