In the dialogue between the traditional Chinese culture and the modern ecological ethnics, with its oriental turning in recent years, many Chinese scholars take traditional Chinese ecological wisdom as “the syncretis...In the dialogue between the traditional Chinese culture and the modern ecological ethnics, with its oriental turning in recent years, many Chinese scholars take traditional Chinese ecological wisdom as “the syncretism between Heaven and Man”,and simply conclude that it is “a philosophy for the harmonious coexistence of man and nature”. This position obviously exaggerates the ecological value of the traditional Chinese culture, neither considering the real connotation of its philosophical proposition in ancient Chinese terms, nor regarding the history and the realistic background of the modern ecology. With an enthusiasm to renovate the traditional Chinese culture, these scholars, merely based on the utilitarianism, evaluate the traditional heaven-and-man philosophy.展开更多
文摘In the dialogue between the traditional Chinese culture and the modern ecological ethnics, with its oriental turning in recent years, many Chinese scholars take traditional Chinese ecological wisdom as “the syncretism between Heaven and Man”,and simply conclude that it is “a philosophy for the harmonious coexistence of man and nature”. This position obviously exaggerates the ecological value of the traditional Chinese culture, neither considering the real connotation of its philosophical proposition in ancient Chinese terms, nor regarding the history and the realistic background of the modern ecology. With an enthusiasm to renovate the traditional Chinese culture, these scholars, merely based on the utilitarianism, evaluate the traditional heaven-and-man philosophy.
