南京林业大学学报（人文社会科学版）Issue(4)：19-25,7.
先秦儒家动物伦理思想刍议
Humble Opinions on Pre-Qin Confucian Animal Ethics
摘要
Abstract
The pre-Qin Confucian animal ethics focused on three aspects: animals ’ social functions, moral entitlements and protection. As to animals’social functions, the pre-Qin Confucians confirmed animals’ importance for human life and material production. In the respect of moral entitlements, Confucius, Mencius and Xun Zi differed and experienced a periodical development, though they all regarded human beings superior to animals. In regard to animal protection, the pre-Qin Confucians acknowledged the multiple values of politics, ethics, economy and ecology of animal protection, and put forward ethical principles such as maintainability, prohibiting hunting and killing according to seasons. Based on the mentality, Confucius, Mencius and Xun Zi established China ’ s earliest and relatively systematic animal ethics, an interpretation of and a study on which will be of great significance for nowadays’ecological civilization construction.关键词
先秦儒家/动物伦理/动物保护Key words
Pre-Qin Confucian/animal ethics/animal protection引用本文复制引用
邓永芳,郭萌萌..先秦儒家动物伦理思想刍议[J].南京林业大学学报（人文社会科学版）,2015,(4):19-25,7.基金项目
2015年江西省社会科学“十二五”规划项目“先秦动物伦理思想及其当代价值研究”（15ZX08）；2013年国家社会科学基金一般项目“中国特色社会主义文化发展中的生态文化建设研究” （）
