Ecological Civilization: Time Calling for Common Values

来源 :国际生态与安全 | 被引量 : 0次 | 上传用户:lzltgp
下载到本地 , 更方便阅读
声明 : 本文档内容版权归属内容提供方 , 如果您对本文有版权争议 , 可与客服联系进行内容授权或下架
论文部分内容阅读
  Regardless occident or orient, the human society has always been pursuing fair, justice and efficiency. Efficiency represents human’s pursuit in material, which belongs to the level of economy, while justice and fair belong to the political level.
  Why do human pursue fair and justice? Human’s behaviors are egoistic, which is a fact recognized by both the first principle of Economics and the law of nature. Still, the egoistic individuals would create groups and society, during which the fair and justice were inevitably involved because the two subjects are the foundation of society. In the history of human development, mankind has never stopped pursuing fair and justice though the comprehension of these two concepts varies over time. The ancient Greece advocated the “power is axiom”, and in modern civilization, cooperation and competition have become the mainstream values of behavioral standard. Therefore, the common comprehension of fair and justice have changed.
  In A Theory of Justice, John Rawls writes that justice should be given with the equal access to equity, which is considered the most worthy statement about fair and justice. The fair and justice that mankind has always been pursuing are our shared values, which can judge if the social and political system is rational. And by using this standard, we can distinguish autocracy and democracy. Apparently, autocracy doesn’t lead to fair and justice, because the dictators are egoistic. His decisions are always for his interests and against others’ favor, but democracy is constantly adjusting and correcting itself. By mutual surveillance and restricting, democracy can eliminate the public damages brought by egotism and realize fair and justice. Apparently, democracy and autocracy are opposite to each other. Therefore, there is no reason to tie democracy and autocracy and say they are subject to free choice.
  Logistically, since the autocracy is anti-democracy, there is no reason to find the excuse for autocracy’s existence from the perspective of democracy. Fair and justice are human’s common value and the bottom line of human’s choice. Our choice can never cross this line. Fair and justice are not only human’s common values, but also the basic principle for human’s survival and the ethical bottom line that we mustn’t cross.
  Our world is facing great development, great revolution and great adjustment, and the international situation is experiencing complicated changes. The multipolarity and economic globalization is having in-depth development, and society is becoming more and more informationized. The international community is getting closely interlinked and interdependent. Peace and development are still the main themes of the modern world, and communication and dialogues, mutual trust and cooperation, as well as peace and development are the common wishes of all people. In recent years, Chinese government has raised the concept of “strengthening ecological construction and achieving sustainable development”, which has not only chosen a new pattern of development, but also the implementation of global ecological safety. Ecological civilization is characterized by the interlinking between human and nature, human as well as human and human and society, and harmonious development. The ecological civilization consists of Ideology Civilization, Behavior Civilization and System Civilization. Its purposes are to regulate human’s egotism, and achieve scientific and sustainable development.
  (The author is Director-General of International Ecological Safety Collaborative Organization )
其他文献
研究人员在中国首次发现三维保存的翼龙蛋。这些蛋在数以十计,甚至数以百计的翼龙化石中被找到,它们代表了新的属和物种(天山哈密翼龙)。此项发现,刊登在细胞出版社6月5日版的《当代生物学》杂志上,揭示了有着25厘米到12米翼展的可飞行的爬行动物翼龙是过着群居生活的。  中国科学院古脊椎动物与古人类研究所的王晓林表示发现很多雌性和雄性翼龙和它们的蛋保存在一起是最令人激动的。“有5颗三维保存的蛋,其中的一些
期刊
凯斯西储的研究员们对多功能干细胞的研究取得标志性突破,即发现可以通过引导使其在体内为满足不同需求而发展变化。此项进展使科学家们最终有望通过干预干细胞来预防疾病或修复伤病引起的损伤。该研究及结果刊登在6月5日版的细胞干细胞期刊上。  多功能干细胞如此命名是因为它们可以发展成任何存于体内的细胞类型。它们的巨大潜力引起了两位成熟的研究员的注意,而他们的研究领域是互补的。  “我们有了一个特殊的机会将两个
期刊
As the only freshwater mammal of the Yangtze River, Yangtze finless porpoise, has been regarded as the flagship species and health index of the ecosystem of the Yangtze River over the years, "It is a
期刊
There used to be two species of cetacean in the Yangtze River, one was white-flag dolphin, the other is the only freshwater finless porpoise subspecies in the world -- Yangtze finless porpoise. They o
期刊
树和博士,哪个更重要?  克莱尔蒙特是一座书卷气息浓厚的大学名城,市内有很多居民都拥有博士学位,中国一代名伶梅兰芳先生也曾在此获得荣誉博士。在它并不算大的城市核心区内竟有七所高等学府,这其中也包含了2013年《福布斯》杂志“全美大学排名”中仅次于斯坦福大学的百年学府——波莫纳学院。再加上,克莱尔蒙特市内街道树立林立,因此克莱尔蒙特也被人称为“树与博士之城”。  不过,克莱尔蒙特市前市长、现市议员拉
期刊
当前,由于资源稀缺引发的水资源危机更加国际化、政治化,并引起国际社会对中国水资源安全的担忧和恐惧。近年来中国与周边国家发生了一系列河流冲突事件,随着亚洲水资源危机的显现,我们有必要、也有能力在周边国家开展多层次的“水资源外交战略”,发挥冲突预防,危机管理,促进合作的职能,真正凸显一个负责任大国的良好风范。  一、资源稀缺性水危机:导致水资源安全国际化  水是地球生命系统赖以生存的基本保障,是人类生
期刊
Born in Seoul, Korea in 1946, Hon. Chung Eui-yong received a B.A. in International Relations from Seoul National University in 1968 and an M.P.A. in International Affairs and Security from Harvard Ken
期刊
Germany has been well-known in the world for its highly attention to environmental protection, and its efforts and achievements in renewable energy and reducing carbon emission. Since mid-1880s when G
期刊
德国一向以其对环保的重视闻名世界,它在可再生能源和减少碳排放方面的努力和成果有目共睹。自19世纪80年代中期,德国政府将“减少、利用、处理”作为环境管理的核心理念之后,尽量避免产生废物,以及对生产环节中所产生废物的再利用成为德国工业生产的不二法则。  最近,柏林开设了德国第一家没有包装袋的超市——Original Unverpackt。该超市位于柏林的弗里德里希斯海因-克罗伊茨贝格区,超市所有的供
期刊
近期,中国多家制药企业被曝环境污染事件,让药企污染再次成为舆论焦点。长期以来,药企一直在治病救人和污染害人的天秤 之间来回摇摆。作为“高耗能、高污染”的行业,药品生产消耗着大量的工业原料等资源,严重破坏了绿色GDP的增长。  “煤雨”、“癌症村”“雾霾”“黄色河流”的出现,使得人们将矛头齐齐指向了药企污染。药企生产过程中带来的“废水、废气、废液”的“三废”问题,使得药企在经济效益和生态安全之间,做
期刊