Abstract: Our country's environment ethics research began in the early-1980s. This process started in discusses and introduces to western environment ethics works, afterward independent theory construction put into practice. Because "environment ethics" or "the ethical ecology" is a brand-new ethics concept and the system info, the academic circle also has the difference to this concept and the theory content's understanding. This kind of difference has caused the argument about the environment ethics discipline status and its discipline nature. This kind of argument also promoted the development of the environment ethics research in our country.

Key words: environment ethics, discipline nature, discipline status

摘要： 我国对环境伦理学的研究始于20世纪80年代初,最先是对西方的论著进行评介,随后展开独立的理论建构。因为“环境伦理学”/“生态伦理学”是一个全新的伦理学概念和理论体系,学界对这个概念的及其理论内容的认识还存在分歧,这种分歧导致了对环境伦理学学科地位、学科性质的争论。这种争论促进了环境伦理学研究在我国的发展。

关键词: 环境伦理学, 学科性质, 学科地位