The Ecological Ethical Implications of Latour’s Gaia Theory

• 作者: CHEN Jia
• 来源期刊: 哲学研究:英文版
• 学科: 政治法律
• 关键词: GAIA 2.0 critical zone ACTOR-NETWORK THEORY PHILOSOPHY of ORGANISM
• 年，卷（期）: 2020,（1）
• 页码范围: 29-35
• 页数: 7页
• 分类号: D73

摘要

Latour combines“the anthropocene”and“the Gaia Hypothesis”and comes up with his Gaia Theory:On the one hand,Latour believes that humans will be an important force in regulating the earth system;on the other hand,Latour puts forward his own“relational ethics”,arguing that all laws or rules that Gaia follows should be realized through the interaction of actors,and“the parliament of things”can unify the domain of necessity and the domain of freedom and turn the opposition between fact and value into the difference between“taking into account”and“arranging in rank order”.His position of“relational ethics”alleviates the opposition between social construction orientation and naturalism orientation in ecological ethics.The mechanisms and principles proposed by“the parliament of things”are of great value in ecological ethics,but they are faced with problems,such as the effectiveness of representatives and whether the parliament can achieve substantial outcomes.The idea of“community of shared future for mankind”,as a Chinese plan for ecological governance,can provide new ideas for solving the above problems of“the parliament of things”.