Religious Ethics and Environmental Ethics: Christianity Dialogue with Buddhism

Philosophy and Culture 25 (6):557-574 (1998)
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Past emphasis on the spiritual life of religious and interpersonal ethics, the rise of today's international academic research environment ethics. Thus, the religious scholars have gradually started to view the inherent ethical or religious commandment rules among the presence of environmental thinking? This limited Buddhism and Christianity are two world religions dialogue, however, these two religions have been able to Glimpse rich environmental thinking, which are realized through long-term development with excavation and gradually formed. Two to teach the philosophical foundation of religious ethics, by the theory of knowledge into the road and into the road cut into the ontological principles of physical evidence principle, the basic principles are also sufficient as a theoretical basis for the concept of environmental protection. The basic norms of religious ethics regardless of the ring, set, Hui "Three Studies", or a letter from the Christian religion, hope, and love the "three super-moral" point of view, are inextricably linked with the modern environmental ethics, and contribute to the modern environmental practices, and thus a deep sense of the times. Teaching religious ethics from two years of talks, this study integrated the six ethical principles of environmental protection, for educational, religious, political and other stakeholders reference and practice. In the past, most religions emphasized spiritual life and human ethics. Due to the fact that the study of environmental ethics is becoming popular, religious studies scholars have begun to consider whether there are any environmental thoughts in existing religious ethics or precepts. This study concerns two major world religions, Buddhism and Christianity. It attempts to look into their abundant ecological thought which has gradually developed in their ideology. I find the philosophical foundations of the two religion's ethics to take a gnoseological and an ontological approach. It seems that from these approaches, both religions have the basis for environmental theories. Whether one starts from the "three learnings" of Buddhism or from Christianity's "theological virtue"; the fundamental precepts of both religions not only closely relate to current environmental ethics, but are also helpful in establishing environmental practices. They become meaningful in today's world in this manner. I finish this paper by synthesizing all the fundamental precepts of religious ethics and proposing six principles of environmental ethics to related experts

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