Value Shaping of Ecological Man: External Standard and Internal Idea

Value Shaping of Ecological Man: External Standard and Internal Idea

Bo Ma

“Ecological man” is an important existing form of the “legal man” mode which generallyexperiences the rising of the “economic man” and the reflection on the “social man” in terms of itsevolution process and Spatio-temporal trajectory, and is now striding toward the “ecological man.” InChina, it is necessary to implant the core value that is depended on by the “ecological man” into thelegislation for the construction of ecology civilization, so as to give a response to the realistic demand onthe practice governed by law. After the outbreak of COVID-19, the Local People’s Congresses of Chinalaunches the revision of the laws and regulations in relation to the prohibition of eating wild animalscomprehensively and stresses that prohibition of eating wild animals by legislation is a necessaryrequirement to guarantee the life, the health and the safety, maintain biological security and ecologicalsafety, strengthen the construction of ecological civilization and promote the harmonious coexistencebetween human and nature.The Wild Animal Conservation Law that is revised by the Standing Committee of GuangdongProvincial People’s Congress stresses, on the one hand, the necessity of comprehensively prohibitingthe eating of terrestrial wildlife according to law, and on the other hand, attaches great importance tothe response to the social reality appeal and clarifies to make rational compensations to legal breedersfor their actual loss. The local legislation on the wild animal conservation adopted in Shenzhen Cityand Zhuhai City of Guangdong Province clarifies the scope of application for the prohibition of eatingterrestrial wildlife and the “white list” of edible animals, and thus stepping in the forefront for locallegislation. It can be said that those local legislations above lay a solid foundation for the revision or theformulation of the legislation in connection to the ecological, environmental protection, and public healthand safety at the state level and also builds a pleasant atmosphere for the rule of law. In considerationof the unexpected public health and safety issues, this paper stresses that it is essential to see both thesurface problem in inadequate legal system supply and the underlying problem in lacking the “ecologicalman” value idea in the design of legal systems.

2020

ecological civilization, COVID-19, external standard, wild animal conservation, legal man mode, ecological man, implication of value, internal idea

DOI: 10.29202/fhi/13/6

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