The Study of Agricultural Environmental Ethics: Rights of Nature Approach and Virtue Approach

农业环境伦理学论文集由主要论文（第一至四部分）、补充论文（第五部分）和附录（第六部分）组成。第二部分概述了美国环境伦理学的主要内容：（a）环境伦理学与应用伦理学的关系，（B）环境伦理学的背景和形成，（c）环境伦理学的早期争论等。第二部分考察了自然权利观，第三部分考察了环境问题的美德观。第四部分从这些研究中总结了生物圈伦理学的主要研究内容，包括农业伦理学、环境伦理学和生命伦理学，并试图提出一个生物圈伦理学的研究方向。这些主题是：（a）食品安全，（B）农业资源枯竭，（c）环境和生态系统破坏，（d）工厂化养殖和动物福利，（e）粮食生产垄断，（f）家庭养殖减少。第五部分的主题是生物学与伦理学，第六部分的主题是德国哲学家马克斯·舍勒的伦理思想。

This collection of papers on agricultural environmental ethics consists of main papers (the part I〜IV), supplementary papers (the part V), and appendixes (the part VI). In the part II overviewed the following main subjects of environmental ethics in United States of America : (a)relationship between environmental ethics and applied ethics, (b)background and formation of environmental ethics, and (c)early controversy over environmental ethics etc. I examined rights of nature approach in the part II, and virtue approach to environmental problem in the part III. From these studies, in the part IV I summarized the main subjects of biosphere ethics, which consists of agricultural ethics, environmental ethics and bioethics, and tried to formulate a direction of study of this field. These subjects are the following ones : (a)safety of food, (b)exhaustion of agricultural resources, (c)destruction of environment and ecosystem, (d)factory farming and animal welfare, (e)monopoly of food production and (f) decrease of family farming. The subject matter of the part V is on biology and ethics, and the one of the part VI is on German philosopher Max Scheler's ethical thought.