In last 20th century, the global industrialization and the development of science and technology which had rapidly progressed have given human beings the material affluence but the man's merciless exploitation and ruin of nature have caused a very ser...
In last 20th century, the global industrialization and the development of science and technology which had rapidly progressed have given human beings the material affluence but the man's merciless exploitation and ruin of nature have caused a very serious crisis of ruin of ecology and human beings themselves. Such criticisms that anthropocentrism, instrumental nature-view and mechanical world-view underly such global life-crisis have been bought forward and also such powerful requests that we must shift to new paradigm such as ecological world-view to solve the life-crisis have been raised. So I will examine the possibility of the mutual aid between western environmental philosophy and Wang Yang-ruing' Han-mom philosophy to solve the modern life-crises.
Arne Naess, who proposes Ecosophy T having only one ultimate norm: "Self-realization", insists to enlarge self from narrow egoistic self to Self embracing all life forms on the planet and then to maximize (long-range, univeral) Self-realization, diversity and symbiosis. It is the way to solve the modern ecological problems. Thomas Berry insists that, to be viable, our sense of reality and of value must shift from an anthropocentric to a biocentric norm of reference. And we must begin by accepting the fact that the life community, the community of all living species, is the greater reality and the greater value, and that the primary concern of the human must be the preservation and enhancement of this larger community.
But Wang Yang-ming's Han-mom philosophy is based on the dynamic capacity for self-organization of universal all nature, psychological and physical property of Chi(*D, and reciprocity between human and nature. And it calls human individual desire that separates human himself from nature and ruins nature to fulfill human interests to account and then insists that we must remove individual desire and rehabilitate the original benevolence and the sense of pain toward universal all nature through our own intemaI self-awakening and then we have not only to realize human life-essence but also to embody creative realization of natural life through the practical activity of affection for natural world.
Eco-philosophy can make a firm basis which can put its principles into dynamic and practical activity by supplement of Han-mom philosophy. And Han-mom philosophy can be a practical alternative plan to solve the problem related with ecological crisis by meet with such eco-philosophy that suggests the concrete counterproposal to solve the modem ecological problems through analyzing the diverse background of ecological problems and basing on the results of ecology.