Abstract: Mencius requires that people should understand and obey the natural law,and then be the same with the heaven and earth. As to the natural creatures,we should insist upon the ecological ethic of variant‘treating people well and loving things',which is the harmonious ecological outlook of people oriented. As to the natural resource protection and consumption,Mencius insists that both cultivating and using natural resource should be in a suitable time,and that consumption of natural resource should be in moderate amount so as not to exhaust it. In this way,people and nature can harmoniously co-exist and enjoy a forever sustainable development.These ecological thoughts are meaningful to today's construction of ecological civilization.
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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