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演講一

Natural environments in early Chinese thought

中國古代思想中的自然環境

Early China’s masters of philosophy and the texts they are associated with are increasingly quoted in order to trace the origins of a Chinese environmental consciousness to its distant past. By locating ideas on environmental protection and sustainable development to China’s classical age, the claim is that Chinese philosophy and China’s religious traditions offer an ideal framework for the relationship between human beings and the environment. The argument runs that the ancient Chinese did not insist on the domination and utilisation of nature. In this lecture we will examine the value of such idealized insistence on nature-man harmony against the historical and social context of Warring States and Han society.

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