当代西方环境伦理学的后现代向度

后现代哲学全面解构了现代性,同时又以一种建设性的创造精神展示着生态后现代主义.当代西方环境伦理学至少在批判精神、基本视野、思维方式、观念构架和话语表达等六大方面展示着这一后现代向度.它在人与自然关系层面上挑战现代性,为走出生态危机提供了新的方法与途径.然而,环境伦理的后现代向度使其在理论上难以避免相对主义的弊端,在实践上不免有"西方中心论"及"富人伦理"之嫌.所以,当代西方环境伦理学在合理性与有效性上有待进一步完善.

Postmodern Dimension of Contemporary West Environmental Ethics

Postmodern philosophy comprehensive deconstructed modernity,while demonstrating eco-postmodernism with a constructive creativity.The contemporary west environmental ethics demonstrates the postmodern dimension at least in several respects,such as its criticism,basic perspectives,ways of thinking,frames of concepts and verbalism.It challenges the modernity in the relationship between the man and nature and it offers a new way to help the man get rid of the ecological crisis.However,the post-modern dimension of environmental ethics is not able to avoid theoretically the disadvantages of the relativism,and not able to differ from "West-center theory" and "the rich people's ethics".Therefore, the contemporary west environmental ethics would have to be improved as far as its reasonableness and efficiency are concerned.