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The modern Western Social Philosophy based on the industrial civilisation, in which science and technology is used for mastery over nature and for serving human purpose, is not suitable any more for the real, because an unlimited expansion of the economic growth and a constant increase of the posse...

The modern Western Social Philosophy based on the industrial civilisation, in which science and technology is used for mastery over nature and for serving human purpose, is not suitable any more for the real, because an unlimited expansion of the economic growth and a constant increase of the possession and the consumption of goods cannot be a criterion of the wealthy life any more. Therefore a new conception of the Social Philosophy has to be made. It has to find the source of human well-being in the virtue and the intrinsic value of human being rather than in the possession and the consumption of goods, and it has to find out a harmony between the economic growth and the environmental preservation as well as a balance between the economic growth and the distribution of wealth. Nowadays the environmental ethicians regard Kant as an archetype of anthropocentric thinker. But it's not proper that because of just the reason that Kant is an anthropocentric thinker man treats him as an obstacle for solving the environmental problems. In connection with the environmental and ecological issues he is in fact an anthropocentric ecologist. The Kantian anthropocentrism is not a barrier at all for solving the environmental and ecological problems, but it can offer a basis and a clue for solving those problems. According to Kant it represses and does violence to the precious part of human nature that human being treats things in nature just as a means of his wants, and the beauty of nature offers a place where man is able to acquire such virtues as the sublime and the reverence. The reason why man has to preserve the nature is not that the nature offers a means of pleasure but that the preservation of nature becomes a way of cultivating a moral disposition of human being. For a new view of nature toward true nonanthropocentric environmental ethics many dilemmas should be made clear. For a successful preservation of nature the anthropocentric position has a better chance than the ecological position which denies the special dignity of human being.