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Environmental Philosophy: Intelligent Meditation of Harmonious Development Between Man and Nature

Wang Zhengping

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Contemporary environmental philosophy comprises intelligent meditation intended to seek harmonious development of and nature. Based on reflections on the relationship between and nature, environmental philosophy explains or expounds the world from brand - new perspectives. Taking the - - society as an integrated entity of dialectical development, this philosophy maintains that possesses both tool value and intrinsic value, that of nature are in essence man s environmental rights , and that human beings have the moral responsibility to adjust and coordinate the relationship between and nature. As a theoretical basis of taking the road of sustainable development, environmental philosophy requires that people make valuable changes from their mechanical world outlook to the ecological world outlook, from human individualism to ecological holism, and from the one - sided development to the harmonious and sustainable development of man, and society.

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Contemporary environmental philosophy comprises intelligent meditation intended to seek harmonious development of and nature. Based on reflections on the relationship between and nature, environmental philosophy explains or expounds the world from brand - new perspectives. Taking the - - society as an integrated entity of dialectical development, this philosophy maintains that possesses both tool value and intrinsic value, that of nature are in essence man s environmental rights , and that human beings have the moral responsibility to adjust and coordinate the relationship between and nature. As a theoretical basis of taking the road of sustainable development, environmental philosophy requires that people make valuable changes from their mechanical world outlook to the ecological world outlook, from human individualism to ecological holism, and from the one - sided development to the harmonious and sustainable development of man, and society.

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Contemporary environmental philosophy comprises intelligent meditation intended to seek harmonious development of and nature. Based on reflections on the relationship between and nature, environmental philosophy explains or expounds the world from brand - new perspectives. Taking the - - society as an integrated entity of dialectical development, this philosophy maintains that possesses both tool value and intrinsic value, that of nature are in essence man s environmental rights , and that human beings have the moral responsibility to adjust and coordinate the relationship between and nature. As a theoretical basis of taking the road of sustainable development, environmental philosophy requires that people make valuable changes from their mechanical world outlook to the ecological world outlook, from human individualism to ecological holism, and from the one - sided development to the harmonious and sustainable development of man, and society.

Key concepts: Meditation, Holism, Dialectic, Environmental ethics, Sustainable development, Value (mathematics), Individualism, Sociology

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