Environmental Ethics: Environmental Ethics in China Traditional Culture

(A) Taoist environmental ethics wisdom

Animal protection: "None of the five precepts of Taoism can be killed", forest vegetation protection "be careful not to burn mountains and break stones, extend to vegetation, break flowers and hurt branches, apply to the city, add gold blades and dry stems and roots", and water and soil resources protection "Fountain is the blood of the earth; Stone, the bone of the earth; Good soil, the meat of the earth is also. Land, the mother of all things, ... survived through its mother, whose mother was ill. " Planting trees for forest protection, paying attention to the ecological environment construction of the temple itself, and planting trees for forest protection. Palace architecture and environmental protection, harmony between man and nature, return to nature. Maintain the overall harmony among human beings, society and natural ecosystems, respect life, maintain ecological balance, advocate nature, protect the ecological environment, consume moderately and use resources humanely.

(B) Confucian environmental ethics

"Man and nature live in harmony and develop harmoniously"

"Follow the laws of nature and save natural resources"

"Be kind to everything"

"The golden mean of protecting the ecological environment"

Environmental ethics in Buddhism

Advocate that there is no obvious boundary between man and nature. Be kind to everything and respect life. "Sweeping the floor doesn't hurt ants' lives, but cherishes moths' gauze lanterns", and the Buddhist Eight Rings bears the brunt. "Kites fly in the sky and fish jump in the Yuyuan Garden",

"When the green is full, the grass is not removed in front of the window", the virtue of "living things" in heaven and earth, and the virtue of being broad-minded.

As a kind of survival ethics, anthropocentrism can be regarded as the "bottom line ethics" of environmental morality; Non-anthropocentrism, as a way of human self-improvement, can be regarded as "advanced ethics" of environmental morality. The realistic character of the former can prevent the latter from degenerating from ideal to fantasy, while the ideal character of the latter can promote the value pursuit of the former, reduce the resistance encountered in the implementation of environmental protection policies, and make the external environmental protection behavior supported and guaranteed by the internal virtue.