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Understanding Environmental Ethics in Perspective of Morality

Chen Cui-fang

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Environmental Ethic is an applied ethics, it has the common characters of general ethics, also has its particularity. Nature, the most direct object of environmental ethics, owns its life like human being. The life character of nature is the most important cause that human beings give their moral feeling and morality to nature. The influence of people's environmental behavior and attitude shows indirection and hysteresis, which weakens the effect of moral regulations and norms. The stable and internal morality can remedy it, and can ensure moral regulations and norms becoming true. Morality's actuality is decided by morality's practicality and unity between the man-man relationship and the man-nature relationship. It is beneficial to constructing of environmental ethics and reaching the final aims of environmental ethics if we can view and understand problems on the basis of morality.

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Environmental Ethic is an applied ethics, it has the common characters of general ethics, also has its particularity. Nature, the most direct object of environmental ethics, owns its life like human being. The life character of nature is the most important cause that human beings give their moral feeling and morality to nature. The influence of people's environmental behavior and attitude shows indirection and hysteresis, which weakens the effect of moral regulations and norms. The stable and internal morality can remedy it, and can ensure moral regulations and norms becoming true. Morality's actuality is decided by morality's practicality and unity between the man-man relationship and the man-nature relationship. It is beneficial to constructing of environmental ethics and reaching the final aims of environmental ethics if we can view and understand problems on the basis of morality.

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Environmental Ethic is an applied ethics, it has the common characters of general ethics, also has its particularity. Nature, the most direct object of environmental ethics, owns its life like human being. The life character of nature is the most important cause that human beings give their moral feeling and morality to nature. The influence of people's environmental behavior and attitude shows indirection and hysteresis, which weakens the effect of moral regulations and norms. The stable and internal morality can remedy it, and can ensure moral regulations and norms becoming true. Morality's actuality is decided by morality's practicality and unity between the man-man relationship and the man-nature relationship. It is beneficial to constructing of environmental ethics and reaching the final aims of environmental ethics if we can view and understand problems on the basis of morality.

Key concepts: Morality, Environmental ethics, Normative ethics, Sociology, Meta-ethics, Epistemology, Perspective (graphical), Moral development

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