Environmental Ethics

Volume 42, Issue 3, Fall 2020

Nature, Wilderness, And Civilization

The Paradigm of the Wild, Cultural Diversity, and Chinese Environmentalism
A Response to Holmes Rolston, III

The so-called “Paradigm of the Wild” means either environmental ethics or environmental aesthetics has gone wild. According to Holmes Rolston, III, “philosophy has gone wild.” Chinese traditional environmentalism takes another anthropocosmic way, and it has a global applicability in cultural diversity. The dichotomy of “nature-culture” is already out of date, and humans have to face the new relation of humanized-nature today. From the perspec­tive of “ethics and aesthetics” in Chinese Confucianism, a different passageway between environmental ethics and environmental aesthetics can be shaped.