关键词: 罗尔斯顿, 环境伦理学, 道德, 生存方式, 生态系统

Abstract: Rolston considers that morality is our human existence and the environmental ethic is to determine the existence for human beings in the natural community instead of overthrowing or replacing the traditional human ethics. We humans culturally living in the natural community ought to respect the natural ecosystem that has the intrinsic value and the end in-itself. Environmental ethic and traditional human ethic construct the comprehensive ethic that determines our existence.

Key words: Rolston, environmental ethics, morality, existence, ecosystem