人类在过去的大部分时间里,至少西方世界到目前为止,都认为伦理学只应考虑那些与其他人、我们自己或上帝——即与人有关联的事态或行为,而很少考虑我们与其它动物的关系,更没有去思考人类应如何处理自己与植物、空气、水或无机物的关系问题.但是,人们最近却发现,我们已经、正在和即将对我们周围的非人类存在物所做的一切并不十分令人满意.那么,我们应根据何种伦理学来对此进行评判并用什么道德来调整我们的行为呢?近来,我们频繁地听到一种呼唤“新伦理学”的呼声;我们被告知需要一种对待环境的新道德.但我认为,作为我们生活基础的传统伦理学(至少其中的大部分)仍然是完美适用的.我们 For most of the past mankind, at least the West has so far considered that ethics should only consider those matters or actions that relate to other people, ourselves, or God - that is, people - and rarely consider the relationship between us and Other animal relationships, and less about how humans should deal with their relationship to plants, air, water, or minerals, but recently it has been discovered that we have, are and are about to do with non-human beings around us Is not entirely satisfactory, then what ethics should we use to judge this and how to adjust our behavior? Recently, we have frequently heard a call for “new ethics” ; We are told that we need a new ethic to deal with the environment, but I think the traditional ethics, at least a large part of which is the basis of our lives, is still perfectly applicable.