英文摘要 |
This article attempts to promote the dialogue between environmental ethics and the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas by exploring the problem: in what sense we can say that nature is the other in the context of Levinas’s philosophy? My opinion is that we could clarify the meaning of nature as the other by two steps: first, we should observe and evaluate existing various approaches, especially the approach of zoocentrism, to find out the crucial difference between all kinds of applications of Levinas’s philosophy in environmental ethics; second, I attempt to propose an integrative framework corresponding to Levinas’s multiple significations of the concept of the other, so that we could extend Levinas’s ethics of hospitality to the natural other of eco-phenomenology in terms of the approach of ecocentrism. |