在对“内在价值”进行描述和解释的时候 ,人们有不尽相同的认识。环境伦理学家对这个概念起码有三种不同用法。然而 ,按照刘易斯的价值分类法 ,所有环境伦理学家的“内在价值”概念的使用都是某种误会。实际上 ,所谓“内在价值”就是人的实践能力 (创造 )及这种能力的自我肯定 (幸福)。面对生态、能源和环境的全面危机 ,环境伦理学首先要解决的不是简单复述某些传统伦理 ,而是建立新的现代伦理 ,并对人自身的价值及其艰苦卓绝的创造价值过程有比较充分的认识 When describing and explaining “intrinsic value,” people have different understandings. Environmental ethicists have at least three different uses of this concept. However, according to Lewis’s taxonomy of values, the use of the notion of “intrinsic value” by all environmental ethicists is some kind of misunderstanding. In fact, the so-called “intrinsic value” is the practical ability (creation) and self-affirmation (happiness) of such ability. In the face of the overall crisis of ecology, energy and environment, environmental ethics must first solve not the simple repetition of some traditional ethics, but the establishment of a new modern ethic and a more adequate consideration of man’s own value and his arduous value-creating process Understanding